Job scheduling and system availability

If the system is powered down or in restricted state when scheduled times are reached, jobs cannot be submitted from job schedule entries and the status of scheduled jobs cannot be changed. However, you can control how the system handles this situation after the system IPL or after it comes out of restricted state.

The job schedule entries and the scheduled jobs are processed in the order that the missed occurrences would have been handled normally. Work from other sources may enter the system while missed job schedule entries and scheduled jobs are being processed.

• Job Schedule Entries: You can control how each entry is handled by the value you specify for the recovery action of the entry. You can specify that a job still be submitted using the entry, that a job be submitted and held on the job queue, or that a job should not be submitted. If you request that a job be submitted, only one job is submitted from each entry, no matter how many submissions were missed while the system was not available.

• Scheduled Job: The system checks to determine if any scheduled times have passed while the system was not available. If a scheduled job with a passed time is found, the job’s status is updated.