Schedule Edit MANN

This screen allows you to create and amend the list of processes and their dependencies within a specified Schedule. Once a schedule has been defined it can be run at a specified date / time on a regular basis. This enables you to set up a series of regular processes to be run in a set order without the need to manually submit and monitor the processes.

Opens Schedule List MANM.

Enter the following fields on the Schedule screen to create a schedule of processes to run:

  1. Enter the Schedule name, up to eight alphanumeric characters.
  1. Enter a Description of the schedule, up to 40 alphanumeric characters.
  1. Enter the Processes for this schedule. You can only enter processes that can be scheduled. They can be requestable or non-requestable.
  1. You can enter Parent for each process to specify the sequence in which the list of processes is run when the schedule is submitted.
  1. If you enter Parent , click the Dependent check box.
  1. Click Update to accept the changes to the panel.
  1. Click Exit: Exit to return to the schedule list.
  1. Click Cancel to cancel the selection window and gain access to the schedule that you have created.
  1. Select the schedule you created and click the Requests button.
  1. Click Edit: Insert on the Request List screen (MAOA). Enter User, Process, Request and Description on the Request screen (MAOB) where Process is one of the processes you entered on the Schedule screen (MANN) in step 3. We recommend clicking the check box for Default Reports. Click Update to accept the changes to the screen.
  2. Repeat steps 9 and 10 for each process added to the schedule in step 3.

To use multiple sets of runtime parameters for processes, repeat steps 9 and 10 to create multiple requests for the processes.

 Click Exit twice to return to the Request List screen (MAOA).

Click Cancel to cancel the selection window and gain access to the request(s) that you have created.

For each request, do the following:

The parameters screen will be different for each process.

Use Cmd to delete reports, request additional report copies, etc.

Click the Update button to accept the changes to the screen.

You may override the printer destination for each report. by doing the following:

You can prompt to a list of distribution profiles if you do not know the printer ID.

Schedule Screen Tasks

Perform the following tasks from the pull-down menu on the Schedule screen (MANN).

Action

Description

Requests

Click Display: Requests to display the Request List screen (MAOA) and all defined requests using the selected schedule.

Active requests

 

Click Display: Active Requests to display the List Active Requests screen (MAQC). This display is specific to the user, not to the schedule being used.

Queue Submit

Click Queue: Submit to submit the selected schedule for processing. When you select this action, a confirmation window appears.

If not described elsewhere in this topic, click in the field and press F1 to view a description. See Common Fields for more information.

Fast prompt allows you to quickly view a list of options for certain fields.

NOTE Field visibility can be defined by your System Administrator, so not all fields documented may be shown.

See Using the Command Line on opening the screen without going through the menu.

 

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