Suspending and resuming recurring jobs at unscheduled times

Products

• CA Automic One Automation
• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine
• Automic SaaS

Issue/Introduction

A user wants a job with frequency of 4 hours through a C_PERIOD or periodic task not to run every month from some certain date (every month date can be random ) and 18 system time to 1st of next month till 10 system time. 

Resolution

There are many ways to accomplish things within Automic Automation.  One that could work is if you have multiple scheduled tasks or jobs that need to be stopped and started at a specific time, you can specify a queue and stop and start the queues.  This can be done manually or through a MODIFY_SYSTEM script function through another job or script.