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The Jobs page lets you create, edit, or delete jobs from your schedule. You can sort jobs based on many of the columns, including name, description, agent, or hold status. See theFiltering Columns pageto sort by custom filters.

Note: To see the list of jobs, you must have View, Change or Execute authority to the "Jobs" Secured Object. To create jobs, you must have Use authority to the "Create Jobs" Secured Action. To edit or delete a job, you must have Change authority to the "Jobs" Secured Object (or to the specific job itself).

Option Description

Creating new jobs To create a new Job, click Create Job. TheJob settingspage displays.

Editing Existing Jobs To edit basic settings for a job, double-click the job or right-click the job, point to Edit Job, and select Job. TheJob settingspage displays.

To edit advanced options for a job, right-click the job, point to Edit Job, and select the option you want to edit:

Job Monitors Prerequisites Conditions Status Notification Output Distribution Job Note Special Instances Forecast Schedule

Copying Jobs You can create a new job based on an existing one by using the copy option. Right- click a job and select Copy Job. TheJob settingspage displays.

Deleting Jobs To delete a job, click the red "X" at the end of the line, or right-click the Job and select Delete Job. A confirmation dialog displays asking if you want to delete the Job. Running a Job To force a job to start, right-click the job, point to Job Control, and select Run Job Now.

Use the Shift or Ctrl keys to select multiple jobs to run. TheRun Job Now Options win- dowdisplays.

Holding a Job You can hold a job to prevent it from running. To hold a job, right-click the job, point to Job Control, and select Hold Job. TheHold Job Options windowdisplays.

Releasing a Job To release a held job, right-click the job, point to Job Control, and select Release Job. A confirmation dialog displays. Click Yes to release the job to the normal run times. Viewing Histories for a

Job

To view a type of history for a job, right-click the job, point to History, and select the type of history you want to view:

Job History Job Monitor History

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Prerequisite Statuses To view or change the current status of prerequisites for a job, right-click the job and select Prerequisite Statuses. ThePrerequisite Statusespage displays.

Clear All Prerequisite Sta- tuses

To reset the status of all prerequisites for a job, right-click the job and select Clear All Prerequisite Statuses. Use the Shift or Ctrl keys to select multiple jobs. Choose Yes to confirm. This resets all prerequisite statuses for the job to None.

If you selected more than one job, the Clear All Prerequisite Statuses window displays the results for each job you selected. You can see if Skybot Scheduler was unable to clear the prerequisite statuses for any of the jobs.

Next Scheduled Run Time To see when a job is next scheduled to run, right-click the job and select Next Sched- uled Run Time. Skybot Scheduler displays the next scheduled run time in a message window. The message window indicates if the job is not scheduled to run again. Send Status Use the Send Status option to tell reactivity that a job run has reached this status. This

does not actually run the job, but reactivity will occur as if it did. This status will be received by any/all prerequisites that refer to this job. The initiation data for any reac- tive jobs that react to this manually sent job status indicates that it happened for job run

number zero.

Use this option when you do not want to run a job on a given day, but have reactive jobs that need this job to have completed. You also can use it for testing reactivity while setting up jobs without actually running the prerequisite job.

To change the status of a job, right-click the job, point to Send Status, and select Sub- mitted, Skipped, Running, Failed, Completed, Canceled, orCondition - Retry Wait. Send Monitor Event Use the Send Monitor Event option to tell reactivity that a Monitor Event has reached

this status. This does not actually invoke the event, but reactivity will occur as if it did. This status will be received by any/all prerequisites that refer to this event. The ini- tiation data for any reactive jobs that react to this manually sent Event Monitor status indicates that it happened for job run number zero.

Use this option when you do not want an event to occur, but have reactive jobs that need this event to have completed. You also can use it for testing reactivity while set- ting up jobs without actually running the prerequisite event.

To change the status of a Monitor Event, right-click the event, point to Send Status, and select Job Underrun, Job Overrun, or Late Start.