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.  In Desktop Client, go Define.

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.