Job scheduling

Use the job scheduling features of IBM® InfoSphere® DataStage® and QualityStage® to automatically run jobs at specified times, days, or intervals.

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You can schedule a job to run in a number of ways:

  • Once today at a specified time
  • Once tomorrow at a specified time
  • On a specific day and at a particular time
  • Daily at a particular time
  • On the next occurrence of a particular date and time

Each job can be scheduled to run on any number of occasions, by using different job parameters if necessary. For example, you can schedule a job to run at different times on different days. The scheduled jobs are displayed in the Job Schedule view.

Note: Windows restricts job scheduling to administrators, therefore you need to be logged on as a Windows administrator in order to use the IBM InfoSphere DataStage scheduling features.
  • Job schedule view
    The Job Schedule view displays details of all scheduled and unscheduled jobs and batches in the currently selected job folder.
  • Viewing the details of a job schedule
    You can use one or more options from within InfoSphere DataStage to view details about a job schedule.
  • Scheduling a job
    You can schedule a job or job invocation.
  • Unscheduling a job
    If you want to prevent a job from running at the scheduled time, you must unschedule it.
  • Rescheduling a job
    If you have a job scheduled to run, but you want to change the frequency, day, or time it is run, you can reschedule it.
Parent topic: Running InfoSphere DataStage jobs
Related tasks:
Running a job from the Director client