When used as a marked calendar, a calendar indicates what days to run or not to run a particular job. Three calendars are automatically set up when you install the system. They are STANDARD, WORKDAYS and HOLIDAY all are in the system wide default directory.
Windows/OpenVMS:
Schedule> create/calendar my_special_calendar /flags=noholiday /mark=x /date=12-may-2013
UNIX/Linux:
Schedule> mkcal my_special_calendar -flags=noholiday -mark=x -date=12-may-2013
What it does: Creates a calendar with Holidays disabled and marks an X on March 12, 2013
Some of the commonly used qualifiers are listed
Windows/OpenVMS |
UNIX/Linux |
Description |
/comment=``any text string'' |
-comment=``any text string'' |
Any descriptive text string. Up to 100 characters. |
/workdays |
-workdays |
Only workdays are recognized |
/flags = [no]holiday_runs |
-flags = [no]holiday_runs |
Set flags for whether holidays are allowed as scheduling days. |
See Create a calendar (create/calendar or mkcal) for a detailed description of this command.