How to schedule a specific day-of-month to a specific day-of-week

Products

• CA 7 Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

How can do you define a schedule for a specific day-of-month to a specific day-of-week in CA 7?

Resolution

To schedule a job that has to run on a specific day-of-the-week only if it is a specific day-of-the-month.

To schedule a day-of-week to a day-of-month requires evaluation of the day-of-month and its relationship to the day-of-week. First, determine which occurrence for the day-of-month could be for the day-of-week. Then schedule the job monthly for that week and day-of-week and remove all days you would not want the job to execute during that week.

For example: Schedule a job for Sunday only if Sunday is the 7th of the month.

First, you know if Sunday is the 7th of the month, has to be the first Sunday of the month-then the question is: what could the first Sunday of the month be and not be the 7th?  It could be the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th. You schedule that as:

__X__ MONTHLY JAN:X FEB:X MAR:X APR:X MAY:X JUN:X JUL:X AUG:X SEP:X OCT:X NOV:X DEC:X WEEK:1 DAY-OF-WEEK:SUN RDAY:/1,/2,/3,/4,/5,/6

The calendar for this schedule should have 7 days of the week available and have the SCHDYONLY option of N.

Another example: Schedule a job for the 15th of the month only if it is a Wednesday.

__X__ MONTHLY JAN:X FEB:X MAR:X APR:X MAY:X JUN:X JUL:X AUG:X SEP:X OCT:X NOV:X DEC:X WEEK:1 DAY-OF-WEEK:WED RDAY:/16,/17,/18,/19,/20,/21