Delay submission of job by date or days in DE (dSeries)

Products

• CA Workload Automation DE

Issue/Introduction

Users want to delay a job submission for certain day or specific date.

 

Environment

Release : 12.x

Component : CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION DE (DSERIES)

Resolution

JavaScript may be used to specify delay of jobs.  Also, you can specify a specific date/time or conditional schedule statement in job's time dependencies in Desktop Client. For example;

In Define perspective, download the Application and select the job that needs to be delayed.

Rich-click on the job and click on Edit.

In the new Window, navigate to Time Dependencies, enter condition in 'Do not submit before'

E.g

%IF(today('FRIDAY'),'9pm','6pm')

The above script will delay job submission on Friday to 9 PM.  On normal or other days, the job will run at 6 PM.  Change day to a date and times accordingly.  All times will be calculated on DE server time zone.