Submit Recurring Job

Background

If you do not have access to the Advanced Job Scheduler on the IBM i servers, this program can help you to submit a job a recurring number of times. The source consists of the following

 RTVJOBCNT - CMD - Retrieve Job Count
 RTVJOBCN#C - CLLE - Retrieve Job Count CL Program
 SBMRECJOB - CMD - Submit Recurring Job
 SBMRECJ#C - CLLE - Submit recurring Job CL PRogram

Using the program

If you issue the command SBMRECJOB, you have to provide the following fields:

                            Submit Recurring Job (SBMRECJOB)                        
                                                                                 
  Type choices, press Enter.                                                     
                                                                               
  Command to submit  . . . . . . .  _____________________________________________                                             
                                                                               
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  Submitted Job Name . . . . . . .   ____________  Character value               
  Submitted Job User Profile . . .   *CURRENT      Character value, *CURRENT     
  Submitted Job Queue to use . . .   *JOBD         Name, *JOBD                   
    Library Name . . . . . . . . .     *LIBL       Character value, *LIBL        
  Allow duplicate jobs?  . . . . .   *YES          *YES, *NO                     
  Number of recurring iterations     2             1-999                         
  Delay between iterations . . . .   60            Delay in seconds (up to 24 hr)
                                                                               
                                                                               
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  F3=Exit   F4=Prompt   F5=Refresh   F12=Cancel   F13=How to use this display    
  F24=More keys

• Command to submit: Specify the command here. You can also prompt the command to give the correct values and parameters
• Submitted Job name: The command specified will be submitted using the specified job name.
• Submitted Job User Profile: Under which profile should the submitted job run. Can also specify *CURRENT for the user running the current job.
• Submitted Job queue to use: Specify a jobq to use for the submission. Can also specify *JOBD to use the JOBD from the user profile
• Allow Duplicate Jobs: If there should always be only one job with this name running, use *NO here. If you do not care whether the previous job ended or not, you can ignore duplicate jobs and specify *YES here
• Number of recurring iterations: Specify how many times this job will be submitted
• Delay between iterations: Specify here how may seconds delay should take place between submissions. This behaviour is also governed by the "Allow Duplicate Jobs" parameter:

- Allow Duplicate Jobs = *YES - Delay will be between submissions. If the delay is 60 seconds, every 60 seconds a submission will take place

- Allow Duplicate Jobs = *NO - Delay will be xx number of seconds after the one job ended and the next one is submitted again