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Create a calendar

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.

Examples

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

Commonly used qualifiers

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.

See Also

Common Command Examples

Create a new job

Modify a job's properties

Modify all jobs using wildcards

Display job properties

Delete a job

Copy an existing job

Edit job list data

Extract the entire database

Insert an extracted database

Type job list data

Submit a job

Create a new directory

Display history

Monitoring activity