Control M: Zoom Screen

This section breaks down the various fields you see within a job using the Zoom command.   Many of the fields within the zoom

    screen can be altered.  There a few (they will show a different color) that cannot.  To make any changes, a job must be in a HELD

    state before zooming, then when in the zoom screen make the changes and type SAVE at the command line.  Remember to FREE

    the job when you are satisfied with your change.  Type CANCEL instead of SAVE if you don’t want your changes to be saved.

MEMNAME – schedule member name, should be same as jobname.

MEMLIB – denotes where CTM will scan for jcl, standard is GENERAL, which will default to the

                    predefined concatenation.  An entry of DUMMY indicates a dummy job, or one that will not execute jcl.  These

                   are used as schedule placeholders. 

OWNER – owner id of job.

TASKTYPE – JOB – batch job, STC – started task, GRP – group entry, CYC – cyclical job or task,

                        EMR – emergency job or task

APPL – denotes application type (no strict standards are set, not always used but may be helpful in

              determining application type.

GROUP – denotes group id.  (S&S, Landover use group scheduling to a great extent, AIS entries’ group id

               are generally just a shortened version of owner id (ex – XUSAB would be XB)

OVERLIB – jcl library – scheduler always looks for jcl here 1st, the rerun library is almost always used

                     here.

JOBNAME – name of job – should be same as MEMNAME

JOBID – denotes jes jobid of job that has already run or is running (for multiple runs, last run is inidcated)

ODAT – schedule date of job in  MMDDYY format.

ORDERID – 5 digit alphanumeric identifier of job, issued when job is scheduled.

MAXWAIT – number of days job will remain on schedule before it rolls off.  (default is generally 3, which means after 3 schedule loads, the job will ‘roll

RESTART DECISION – indicates where the job was restarted from (this will only show valid information      if the job hasn’t completed successfully)

CONFIRM – y or n flag will indicate where a confirmation is required (will reset to N after job is confirmed)

DESC – brief description of job

SET VAR – function to set variables affecting run of job (prod svcs function)

DOC MEM – viewdoc member – should be same as jobname

DOC LIB – where viewdoc is located

TIME – time conditions (FROM – job will not run until this time is met; UNTIL – job will not run after this time.)

OUT – out conditions set by job upon successful competion, including FORCE OK status.

ON PGMST – various actions can be setup depending on return condition of  particular step, including forcing abend, forcing out other jobs, restarting job, setting conditions, issueing shouts, etc…

SHOUT WHEN – issues shout on various conditions (abends and late shouts most common)