Why do RUN and GENTIME show different results?

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

When we use GENTIME or RUN using the same criteria, the results are incorrect in the simulation

Example:
    GENTIME FD LAST SAT OF JAN FEB MAY JUL OCT 
    RUN %FDDATE

No jobs are run except when simulated for last Sat of January.

Issuing TEST with LAST SAT OF JAN FEB MAY JUL OCT results in.

    00.00.00 SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23RD, 2008, DAY 054 
    00.00.00 SATURDAY MAY 31ST, 2008, DAY 152      
    00.00.00 SATURDAY JULY 26TH, 2008, DAY 208     
    00.00.00 SATURDAY OCTOBER 25TH, 2008, DAY 299  
    00.00.00 SATURDAY JANUARY 31ST, 2009, DAY 031  
    00.00.00 SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28TH, 2009, DAY 059 
    00.00.00 SATURDAY MAY 30TH, 2009, DAY 150      
    00.00.00 SATURDAY JULY 25TH, 2009, DAY 206     
    00.00.00 SATURDAY OCTOBER 31ST, 2009, DAY 304  
    00.00.00 SATURDAY JANUARY 30TH, 2010, DAY 030  

Resolution

The schedule criteria will specify what it says, last Saturday of January, February, May, July and October for each year.
    
Example:   

LAST SAT JAN FEB MAY JUL OCT  - This criteria means LAST SAT and names of months are ignored.

LAST SAT, without specifying months, implies all months of a year.

GENTIME function always generates a single date.  (If schedule criteria specifies multiple dates, only the first one will be generated)

GENTIME FD LAST SAT OF JAN FEB MAY JUL OCT will generate last Saturday of January and is the same as GENTIME FD LAST SAT OF JAN 
GENTIME FD LAST SAT JAN FEB MAY JUL OCT is the same as GENTIME FD LAST SAT

It will generate the last Saturday of the month, when event is triggered.