Events and summer time change

Products

• DSERIES- SERVER
• CA Workload Automation DE - System Agent (dSeries)

Issue/Introduction

Since the last summer time change, some applications scheduled to start at 00:15 now start start at at 01:15.

Example of the application having this problem :

 

Event - SCHEDMASTER.ITEM_BULK_RMSMCH_CYCL0060 

Schedule - 00:15 every 2 hours weekdays 

Suspend - 06:17 

Resume - 00:14 

and Do not trigger if active 

Environment

Dseries versions 11.3 SP3 and 12.x

Cause

The customer was not using the correct syntax in this context.

Resolution

You should change the event statement to something like this: 

 

Every 2 hours starting at 00:15. 

 

Here is below the documentation to all the scheduling criteria. 

 

https://docops.ca.com/ca-workload-automation-de/12-0/en/scheduling/schedule-criteria 

 

You will see it has this example: Hourly starting 2 PM today.