--- In Control-X@yahoogroups.com, "Arnoff, Barbara"
<BARBARA.ARNOFF@...> wrote:
>
> On the mainframe - One of the ways that we handle this is to use the
> CTMTBUPD utility to modify the schedule definition to set the OVERLIB to
> DUMMY, and then to reset it to the correct OVERLIB when we want to begin
> running again. We schedule a job to run at the end of the day, before
> the next day's New Day. Before that, the operations group would
> manually make temporary changes on the AJF - major mess, major
> confusion, etc.
>
> We use this approach to run critical jobs during our annual disaster
> recovery exercise. The operations group maintains a list of critical
> jobs that need to be run during the multi-day exercise. I have a set of
> SAS programs that read the file and generate the control cards to set
> the OVERLIB to DUMMY for the exercise.
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Control-X@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Control-X@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Stein Arne Storslett
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:35 AM
> To: Control-X@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Control-X] CM 6.2 - Order a "Job" as "Dummy" for selected days
>
>
>
> Hi
>
> Christmas time is arriving fast, and with that the requirements for
> special holiday handling of some jobs.
>
> I need to stop some selected jobs, which are all part of a chain of
> jobs, for the 24th, 25th, 26th and again on the 31th.
>
> I can prevent the jobs from being scheduled, but that will mess with the
> sequence. So I've usually edited the jobs, added "if-then-else" and thus
> prevented the jobs from actually doing anything on these days.
>
> BUT, would i be possible (or a very nice feature) to tell Control-M to
> order these jobs as "Dummy" jobs on some particular days?
>
> Any and all suggestions are welcomed!
>
> --
> Stein Arne Storslett
>
Would it be possible to get an example of the SAS program? When we go
to disaster recovery, we end up holding and deleting, or dummy'ing out
hundreds of jobs from our batch process. It is always been a
nightmare. This is a solution to our problem. I have to find someone
here at work, that can show me how to config a SAS program to convert
our list of jobs that have to be dummied.

Thank you,

Frank Madigan
United Stationers