Rename Job using Job Scheduler (RNMJOBJS)

The Rename Job using Job Scheduler (RNMJOBJS) command allows you to rename a job. After renaming the job, you can modify and change any or all of the associated parameters.

Parameters

Keyword Description Choices Notes
JOB Job entry Element list Required, Positional 1
Element 1: Job Name
Element 2: Group Name, *NONE
Element 3: Group sequence 1-99, *NONE
NEWJOB New job entry Element list Optional, Positional 2
Element 1: Job Name, *SAME
Element 2: Group Name, *SAME, *NONE
Element 3: Group sequence 1-99, *SAME, *NONE

Job entry (JOB)

Specifies the name of the job schedule entry that you want to rename. You must specify a job for every job and alternately can specify a group to which the job belongs as well as a sequence number for the job within the group.

Note: No subordinate jobs for a group can exist in order to rename the sequence 1 job of the group.

This is a required parameter.

Element 1: Job

name
Specify the user-defined name of the job schedule entry that you want to rename.

Element 2: Group

*NONE
The job is not assigned to a group.
name
Specify the user-defined name of the group to which the job belongs.

Element 3: Group sequence

*NONE
There is not a sequence number assigned to the job.
1-99
Specify the sequence number of the job within the group.

New job entry (NEWJOB)

Specifies the name of the job schedule entry that you are creating as a result of renaming the job specified for the Job entry (JOB) parameter. You must specify a job for every job and alternately can specify a group to which the job belongs as well as a sequence number for the job within the group.

The first job of a group must be sequence number 1. Subsequent sequence numbers should leave gaps (10, 20, 30 and so on) to allow job insertions if necessary.

Element 1: Job

*SAME
The current name of the job does not change.
name
Specify the user-defined name of the job schedule entry that you want to create from the job that you are renaming.

Element 2: Group

*SAME
The current name of the group does not change.
*NONE
The job is not assigned to a group.
name
Specify the user-defined name of the group to which the job belongs.

Element 3: Group sequence

*SAME
The current sequence number of the job does not change.
*NONE
There is not a sequence number assigned to the job.
1-99
Specify the sequence number of the job within the group.

Examples

RNMJOBJS   JOB(JOB02)  NEWJOB(JOB04)

This command renames job JOB02 to JOB04.

Error messages

Unknown