jsuntil
The jsuntil keyword defines the latest start time of a job stream. It also determines the behavior of the jobs in the job stream when the job stream is approaching its latest start time. Use the jsuntil keyword to avoid that the job stream is either suppressed, canceled, or set to continue (depending on the action specified in the onuntil keyword) if it starts before its latest start time. For example, if you have a job stream with jsuntil set to 10:00 am, and one of the jobs starts running at 9:59 am, the job and its successors run as scheduled.
This keyword is mutually exclusive with the until keyword.
- If you specify the until keyword in your job stream definition
- This keyword is evaluated also after the job stream has started. As a result, if the latest start time expires before the job stream completes successfully, the action specified in the related onuntil keyword is performed on the job stream and on its jobs, which have not yet started.
- If you specify the jsuntil keyword in your job stream definition
- This keyword is evaluated only once, as soon as all dependencies of the job stream are satisfied and the job stream state changes to READY. If the latest start time defined using the jsuntil keyword has not expired at this time, it is no longer evaluated and the job stream runs independently of it. However, to prevent the job stream from remaining in READY state indefinitely, two days after the time specified in the jsuntil keyword has expired, the job stream is suppressed by default.
For more information about the until keyword, see until.
Syntax
[jsuntil time [timezone|tz tzname][+n day[s]] [onuntilaction]]
Arguments
- time
- Specifies the time of day. The possible values are 0000 through 2359.
- tzname
- Specifies the time zone to be used when computing the time. See Managing time zones for time zone names. The default is the time zone of the workstation on which the job or job stream is launched.
- n
- Specifies an offset, in days, from the scheduled date and time.
- onuntil action
- The
action to be taken on a job stream whose until time has expired but the job stream is not yet
completed in SUCC state. The following are the possible values of the action parameter:
- suppr
- The job or job stream and any dependent job or job stream do not run. This is the default
behavior.
Once the until time expired on a job stream, the status for the job stream is calculated following the usual rules; suppressed jobs are not considered in the calculation. In case the job stream contains at least one every job its status is HOLD.
When the until time expires for a job, the job changes to HOLD status or keeps any previous status which is a final status.
If the until time is passed together with the onuntil suppr and the carryforward options, the job stream is carry forwarded by JnextPlan only if the until date is equal to the date when JnextPlan runs. If the until and the JnextPlan run dates are not the same, the job stream is not carry forwarded.
- cont
- The job or job stream runs when all necessary conditions are met and a notification message is
written to the log when the until time elapses.
If the until time is passed together with the onuntil cont and the carryforward options, the job stream is always carry forwarded by JnextPlan.
- canc
- A job or job stream is cancelled when the until time specified expires. When using
onuntil canc on jobs, the cancel operation on the job is issued by the FTA on
which the job runs. Any job or job stream that was dependent on the completion of a job or job
stream that was cancelled, runs because the dependency no longer exists.
If the until time is passed together with the onuntil canc and the carryforward options, the job stream is not carry forwarded by JnextPlan because it is already canceled.
Note: When using onuntil canc at job stream level, define as owner of the job stream the workstation highest in the hierarchy of the scheduling environment, among all workstations that own jobs contained in the job stream.
Comments
The jsuntil keyword is supported on components at version 9.4 Fix Pack 1, or later, with the exception of dynamic agents connected to a master at version 9.4 Fix Pack 1, or later. On all other agent types where a previous version of the product is installed, the jsuntil keyword is ignored.
Examples
schedule BankReports
on everyday
AT 0800 JSUntil 1000
end