RE: Robot Schedule failed across daylight savings time change -- MIDRANGE-L

Jeff,

We also use AJS.
We acquired Robot Schedule and Robot Replay to automate jobs that could only be submitted from interactive sessions.
Robot Replay learns the interactive process, Robot Schedule then runs the leaned process.

Each product has its pros/cons, too many to list here.
The Robot Schedule GUI monitor has features well-liked by management to monitor jobs.
It's getting a bit complicated managing both job schedulers.

+1 on not scheduling any jobs from 1:59 thru 3:01.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 8:50 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Robot Schedule failed across daylight savings time change

Don't use Robot Schedule, so I know nothing about it. We're using AJS (Advanced Job Scheduler) which has no issues with DST. So it can be done.

That being said, I never schedule jobs on AJS from 2am-3am. It's always either 1:59am or 3:01am. Not because AJS can't do it, it's for MY peace of mind.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 8:45 AM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'm not understanding why Robot Schedule needs to be recycled.
It must not be checking the system time, but using their own internal
clock.

Support sent me this link, illustrating a new feature for daylight
savings time they just added in 12.13 or higher , available in the GUI only.

https://www.helpsystems.com/how-to-guides/robot/using-
robot-schedule-automate-daylight-saving-time-change

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Lindstrom, Scott R.
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 2:10 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Robot Schedule failed across daylight savings time change

To the original question; I have never seen Robot have problems after
the time change.

Like Jerry - we have automated our shutdown/restart of Robot Schedule
during the time change.

For "Spring Ahead" We have a job that run *every* second Sunday of the
month at 01:58. It then has an OPAL object attached that skips the
job if it's NOT March:

Execute schedule instructions in OPAL Object CHGTIME_S
@@MONNO NE 03
SKIP
END

If the job DOES run, it:

shuts down Robot
waits 4 minutes
starts up robot
sends me an email that it ran
submits a job to run at 0900 to text me and say 'the time is now 0900'.
When I get this text I make sure it actually is 9 am.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jerry Draper
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 12:41 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Robot Schedule failed across daylight savings time change

We use Robot extensively at several sites.

We have a job scheduled in Robot to end Robot Schedule at 1:58am and
restart it at 2:02am. It then puts itself on hold for next DST change.

This job is scheduled for Sundays. Normally it is on hold. We
release it sometime during the week before DST although that could be
put on a calendar so you can spend more time loafing.

Jerry

Commands for job . . . : CHGDST

Opt Seq Command
1 CALL PGM(ROBOTLIB/RBT107)
2 DLYJOB DLY(240)
3 CALL PGM(ROBOTLIB/RBT103)
4 ROBOTLIB/RBTBCHUPD JOBNUMBER(2029) SCHEDULE(H)

On 3/12/2018 7:01 AM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

We just started using Robot Schedule / Robot Replay the last several

months.

This was our first experience of a daylight savings time change with
the

product.

System time auto changed from 2:00 am to 3:00 am on 3/11.

Robot jobs failed to start at 3:45 am and 4:00 am.

Recycling Robot Schedule resolved the issue.
Anyone from the group using these products and experiencing similar

issue?

I have an open ticket with Help Systems.

Thank You
_____
Paul Steinmetz
IBM i Systems Administrator

Pencor Services, Inc.
462 Delaware Ave
Palmerton Pa 18071

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