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I know precisely what you mean... We ran into this one on some of the reports we wanted to run in the scheduler... One of the neat features of running jobs in Machine Manager is that it will capture and store the selection criteria from the interactive program at the time you schedule the job and when the job runs it will pass those criteria as parameters via the LDA to the batch program listed in the batch portion of the task definition... One of the unfortunate features is that running jobs in Machine Manager that require the selection criteria to change with each run, like dates for instance, can be a challenge... You either have to reschedule the job every time you want to change the selection criteria, or figure out a way to make the program calculate the criteria or extract the criteria from a table you can setup external to Machine Manager... There is another solution that I am aware of... Help Systems (http://www.helpsystems.com/) has a product called ROBOT which has been developed with some JBA specific options that allow you to use their "LEARN MODE" when scheduling Machine Manager Tasks that will handle the scheduling of variable data in these scheduled jobs and control the changing of the dates based on some rules that you define... This capability was available as far back as the early to mid nineties... While the ROBOT option may be overkill for this one particular problem, it is a very powerful tool that does many automated functions... It even does dependant processing which Machine Manager does not handle gracefully... So you have 3 choices the way I see it... 1 - Reschedule the jobs every time the selection criteria changes - (Irritating) 2 - Write Modified code to extract the criteria from an external table or calculate it somehow, perhaps based on the current date, etc... 3 - Buy a tool like ROBOT... (If you own ROBOT you might already have the tool you need...) We chose option 2. For the jobs we need to run we've written up-front code to automatically calculate the dates needed to run the programs and we pass them in the LDA... So the Task definition for the Machine Manager entry is different than the Task used on the interactive menu, but it achieves the same desired results... Best of luck... Jo_Coffey@lathamplastics.com on 01/16/2002 01:55:15 PM Please respond to jbausers-l@midrange.com To: jbausers-l@midrange.com cc: (bcc: Jeff Klipa/Harvard) Subject JBA ML - Dates in Auto Day End Jobs : I have the need to start running daily some reports that were run only once a month. Normally each month I go into the Auto Day End jobs in Machine Manager and step through the task to change the dates such as the overdue date field in the AR Overdue Report. Has anyone been able to set up the job/task in Auto Day End so that the date changes to the current date without having to go into machine manager every day and change it manually? _______________________________________________ This is the GEAC/JBA System 21 Users (JBAUSERS-L) mailing list To post a message email: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/jbausers-l or email: JBAUSERS-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/jbausers-l.
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