Job Properties

Below is a list of job properties for Control-M objects.

Type

Defines the type of job. For example:

Many of the other properties that you include in the job's definitions depend on the type of job that you are running. For a list of supported job types and more information about the parameters that you use in each type of job, see Job-types.

Application, SubApplication 

Supplies a common descriptive name to a set of related Jobs, Folders, or SubFolders. The jobs do not necessarily have to run at the same time.

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Comment

Allows you to write a comment on an object. Comments are not uploaded to Control-M.

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When

Enables you to define scheduling parameters for Jobs, Folders and SubFolders, including the option of using calendars. If When is used in a Folder or SubFolder, those parameters apply to all Jobs in the Folder or Subfolder.

When working in a Control-M Workbench environment, jobs will not wait for time constants and will run in an ad-hoc manner. Once deployed to a Control-M instance, all time constraints will be obeyed. 

The following example defines scheduling based on a combination of date and time constraints:

The following example defines scheduling based on specific dates that you specify explicitly:

The following date/time constraints are available for use in the definitions of a Job, Folder, or SubFolder:

MonthDay additional parameters

You can specify the days of the month the job will run by referencing a predefined calendar set up in Control-M. 

You can specify the days of the month the job will run by referencing a predefined calendar set up in Control-M, and also using advanced rules specified in the MonthDays parameter:

Where:

WeekDays additional parameters

You can specify the days of the week that the job will run by referencing a predefined calendar set up in Control-M, and also using advanced rules specified in the WeekDays parameter:

Where:

Specifying a period when a job can or cannot run

In addition to the other date/time elements, you can define a range of dates when a job can or cannot run.

The following example shows a period of time (that is, a range of dates) when the job can run:

The following example shows a period of time when the job CANNOT run:

Where:

Relationship between MonthDays and WeekDays

Specifying a Confirmation calendar

You can specify a predefined Confirmation calendar to use for validation of scheduling dates and you can indicate how to handle jobs that are scheduled for a non-working day in this calendar.

The following example shows how to specify a Confirmation calendar:

The following parameters appear under the ConfirmationCalendars object:

Using rule-based calendars in job scheduling

You can base scheduling on predefined rule-based calendars (RBC). Under the When parameter for a specific Job, Folder, or SubFolder, you can specify the RBCs to include and the RBCs to exclude from scheduling. For more information, see Rule-based Calendar and Excluded Rule-based Calendar lists in the Control-M Online Help.

You can combine the use of rule-based calendars with standard scheduling parameters. In such a case, the Relationship parameter enables you to define the logical relationship (AND/OR) between the criteria defined by the calendars and all other basic scheduling criteria. In other words, you can decide whether either set of criteria, or both sets of criteria, must be satisfied. The default relationship is OR.

Rule-based calendars can also be used with SubFolders. In the following example, two different SubFolders are defined in the parent folder. For one of these SubFolders, RBCs to include and exclude are explicitly specified. These RBCs are either global or from the parent folder. For the other SubFolder, the "USE PARENT" value is specified instead of the name of an actual RBC, so that all scheduling is inherited from the parent folder (as defined in the next example).

For folders, you can define Folder RBCs in addition to using predefined RBCs or other basic scheduling criteria. Folder RBCs are specific to a single folder and are applied to all jobs within the folder. The following example shows how to define RBCs under the folder's When parameter:

Note the following guidelines:

• Each Folder RBC that you define has its own When parameter, with scheduling parameters under it. The scheduling parameters under this When parameter are similar to the scheduling parameters under a When parameter of a job or folder, with the following exceptions:
  • The When parameter of an RBC does not support the FromTime and ToTime parameters.
  • For the When parameter of an RBC, you can also use the DaysKeepActiveparameter.
  • You cannot nest another RuleBasedCalendars parameter under the When parameter of an RBC.
• To apply the defined Folder RBCs to the jobs within the folder, you must list each of the defined Folder RBCs in either the Included parameter or the Excluded parameter.
• You can list additional predefined Control-M RBCs in the Included and Excluded parameters. In the example above, a predefined RBC named calendar1 is listed along with the Folder RBC winterWeekendDays.
• You can combine the use of RBCs with other scheduling parameters. In the example above, the additional Months and WeekDays settings were added after the RuleBasedCalendars definitions. These further scheduling parameters are combined with the RBCs based on a logical AND.
• The folder's scheduling parameters are inherited by each of the jobs in the folder. In addition, for any specific job in the folder, you can add further scheduling parameters or RBCs. In the example above, further RBCs (calendar3 and calendar2) are associated with a job named TestJobInTestFolder.

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Events

Events can be generated by Control-M or can trigger jobs. Events are defined by a name and a date.

Here is a list of the various capabilities of event usages:

1. A job can wait for events before running, add events after running, or delete events after running. See WaitForEvents, AddEvents, and DeleteEvents
2. Jobs can add or remove events from Control-M. See Event:Add or Event:Delete.
3. You can add or remove events from the Control-M by an API call. See Event Management.

You can set events for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

For "OrderDate", you can use the following values:

WaitForEvents

The following example shows how to define events that the job must wait for before running:

You can specify the logical relationship between events, using logical operators (AND/OR) and parentheses. The default relationship is AND. Note that nesting of parentheses within parentheses is not supported.

AddEvents

The following example shows how to specify events for the job to add after running:

DeleteEvents

The following example shows how to specify events for the job to remove after running:

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If

If statements trigger one or more actions when job-related criteria are fulfilled (for example, the job ended with a specific status or the job failed several times).

The following If statements are available for specifying job-related criteria that must occur for action to be taken:

• If:CompletionStatus
• If:NumberOfReruns
• If:NumberOfFailures
• If:JobNotSubmitted
• If:JobOutputNotFound
• If:NumberOfExecutions
• If:Output

For descriptions of the various actions that can be triggered in response to an If statement that is fulfilled, see If Actions.

If:CompletionStatus

The following example shows an If statement that triggers actions based on job completion status. In this example, if the job runs unsuccessfully, it sends an email and runs another job. You can set this property for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

If can be triggered based on one of the following CompletionStatus values:

If:NumberOfReruns

The following example shows how to trigger an action based on number of job reruns. You can set this property for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

Where:

If:NumberOfFailures

The following example shows how to trigger an action based on number of job failures. You can set this property for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

Where:

If:JobNotSubmitted

The following example shows how to trigger an action based on whether the job is not submitted.

If:JobOutputNotFound

The following example shows how to trigger an action based on whether the job output is not found.

If:NumberOfExecutions

The following example shows how to trigger an action based on number of job executions. You can set this property for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

Where:

If:Output

The following example shows how to trigger an action based on whether a specified string is found within the job output. You can set this property for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

Where:

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If Actions

The following actions can be triggered in response to an If statement that is fulfilled:

• Action:Mail
• ActionRerun
• Action:Set
• Action:SetToOK
• Action:SetToNotOK
• Action:StopCyclicRun
• Action:Run
• Action:Notify
• Event:Add
• Event:Delete
• Action:Output

You can set any of these properties for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

For descriptions of the various If statements that you can specify to trigger these actions, see If.

Action:Mail

 The following example shows an action that sends an e-mail.

The following example shows that you can add optional parameters to the email action.

The following table describes the parameters of the email action:

Action:Rerun

The following example shows an action that reruns the job.

Action:Set

The following example shows an action that sets a variable.

Action:SetToOK

The following example shows an action that sets the job status to OK.

Action:SetToNotOK

The following example shows an action that sets the job status to not OK.

Action:StopCyclicRun

The following example shows an action that disables the cyclic attribute of the job.

Action:Run

The following example shows an action that runs another job.

The run action has the following optional properties:

Action:Notify

The following example shows an action that sends a notification.

Event:Add

The following example shows an action that adds an event for the current date.

Optional parameters:

Event:Delete

The following example shows an action that deletes an event.

OrderDate possible values:

• "AnyDate"
• "NoDate"
• "OrderDate"
• "PreviousOrderDate"
• "NextOrderDate"
• "0511" - (MMDD) 

Action:Output

The Output action supports the following operations:

• Copy
• Move
• Delete
• Print

The following example shows an action that copies the output to the specified destination.

Action:CaptureOutput

The CaptureOutput action enables you to search job output and capture text from the job output into a variable.

The following example shows a job with a CaptureOutput action that captures text when the string "failure" is discovered in the output. In this example, the capture operation starts only 5 lines and 1 word later.

The CaptureOutput action has the following properties:

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Confirm

Allows you to define a job, folder, or subfolder that requires user confirmation. This can be done by running the run confirm command.

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CreatedBy

Allows you to specify the Control‑M user responsible for job definitions. You can define this property for a Job object or Folder object.

The behavior of this property depends on the security policy defined in the Control-M environment, as controlled by the AuthorSecurity parameter in Control-M/Enterprise Manager:

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Critical

Allows you to set a critical job. A critical job is a job that has a higher priority to reserve resources in order to run.

Default: false

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DaysKeepActive

Allows you to define the number of days to keep a job if the job did not run at its scheduled date. You can set this property for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

Jobs in a folder are kept until the maximum DaysKeepActive value for any of the jobs in the folder has passed. This enables you to retrieve job status of all the jobs in the folder. 

Where:

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Description

Enables you to add a description to a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

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Documentation

Allows you to add the location and name of a file that contains the documentation for the Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

Allows you to add the URL location of a file that contains the documentation for the Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

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EndFolder

Enables you to specify which job is the end point in a folder. After this job completes, no additional jobs in the folder will run, unless they have already started running. The folder is complete once all jobs that are still running complete. Remaining jobs that have not yet started running change to status WAIT SCHEDULE.

Values: true | false
Default: false

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Notification

Allows you to create a notification for certain scenarios before, during and after job execution. You can set notifications for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

This example shows a notification sent to JobLog of critical job failure.

The following parameters are relevant to all notification types.

Notify:OK

When setting the notification type to OK, if job executed with no errors, the notification "Job run OK" is sent to the JobLog. 

Notify:NotOK

When setting the notification type to NotOK, if job executed with errors, the notification "Job run not OK" is sent to the JobLog. 

Notify:DoesNotStart

If the job has not started by 15:10, a notification is immediately sent to the email defined in the job with the message that the job has not started.

Notify:ExecutionTime

When setting the notification type ExecutionTime to LessThan, if the job completes in less than 3 minutes, the notification "Less than expected" is sent to the Alert destination. 

Notify:DoesNotEnd

When setting the notification type DoesNotEnd, if job does not end by the specified time, message is sent to JobLog.

Notify:ReRun

When setting the notification type ReRun, when job reruns, message is sent to console.

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OverridePath

Enables you to specify an alternative location for a script file without changing the original script file that you specified for a job of type Job:Script using the FileName and FilePath properties. The alternative script file in the alternative location must have the same name as the original job script file, in order for it to run instead of the original job script file. This is especially useful for troubleshooting purposes or during development of a new release.

The following example demonstrates the use of the OverridePath property:

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Priority

Allows you to define the priority that a job has over other jobs. You can set this property for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

For Priority values, you can choose between the following options:

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Rerun

Allows to define cyclic jobs or folders.

The example shows how to define a cyclic job or folder that runs every 2 minutes indefinitely.

The following example shows how to run a job or folder four times where each run starts three days after the previous run ended.

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RerunIntervals

Allows to define a set of time intervals for rerun of jobs.

The example shows how to define Rerunintervals for the job to run every 12 months, 12 days, 11 hours and 1 minute from the end of the last job run.

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RerunSpecificTimes

Allows to define specific times at which to rerun jobs.

The following example shows how to define RerunSpecificTimes to run at those specific times. 

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RerunLimit

Allows you to set a limit to the number of times a non-cyclic job or folder can rerun.

The following example shows the use of this property for a job:

The following example shows the use of this property for a folder:

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Resources

Resource:Semaphore

Allows you to set the Semaphore (also known as quantitative resources) quantity to the job, used to control access to a resource that is concurrently shared by other jobs. For API command information on resources, see Resource Management.

The following example shows how to add a semaphore parameter to a job. 

Resource:Mutex

Allows you to set a Mutex (also known as control resource) as shared or exclusive. If the resource is shared, other jobs can use the resource concurrently. If set to exclusive, the job has to wait until the resource is available before it can run. You can set a Mutex for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

The following example shows how to add a Mutex parameter to a job.

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RetroactiveJob

Enables you to order a job retroactively to make up for days on which the job did not run. For example, Control-M was down for two days due to a hardware issue; as soon as jobs can run again, this job is scheduled retroactively to run an additional two times, to make up for the days that Control-M was inactive.

Values: true | false
Default: false

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RunAs

Enables you to define the OS user responsible for running a job (or all jobs in a folder or subfolder).

By default, jobs are run by the user account where the Control-M/Agent is installed. To specify a diferent user, the agent must be running as root.

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RunAsDummy

Enables you to run a job of any type (other than Dummy) as a dummy job.

This is useful, for example, when a job is temporarily not in use but is still included in a flow. You can temporarily set this job to run as a dummy job, so that there is no impact to the flow.

Values: true | false
Default: false

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RunOnAllAgentsInGroup

Allows you to set jobs to run on all agents in the group. 

The example shows how to define RunOnAllAgentsInGroup 

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Time Zone

Allows you to add the time zone to jobs, folder, or subfolder. Time zones should be defined at least 48 hours before the intended execution date. We recommend to define the same time zone for all jobs in a folder. 

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Variables

Allows you to use job level variables with %% notation in job fields. You can set this property for a Job, Folder, or SubFolder.

For specifications of system defined variables such as %%$DATE see Control-M system variables in the Control-M Online Help.

Named pools of variables can share data between jobs using the syntax "\\poolname\variable". NOTE that due to JSON character escaping, each backslash in the pool name must be doubled. For example, "\\\\pool1\\date".

Jobs in a folder can share variables at the folder level using the syntax "\\variable name" to set and %%variable to use

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