Submit - Setting the job submission options

The Submit options determine how jobs are submitted in Schedule.

Schedule gives you the choice of which Operating System to submit the job on.  The choices are: Windows, UNIX and VMS.  Depending on which Operating System you choose the screen will change with the correct submitting options. The user can submit a single job or a job set. To learn more about job set, click here.

 

 

UNIX/Linux job submission

The fields for UNIX/Linux job submission are:

Process Controls

On Node

This specifies on which node this job is to execute. Inside a cluster, any node that is a member of the same cluster is allowed to submit and execute the job. This parameter is very useful in a "Satellite/Central database" network configuration. In this network topology, the job will execute on the remote node. All the control data and commands will come from thecentral database.

Process name

This is the name of the process which the job should use.

Username

the owner of the job

Default submission tag

A text field that specifies information to be passed from one job to another inside a set of jobs.

Retain on error (checkbox)

Used in conjunction with the checkbox called "delete upon completion of job" in the General tab. If this is checked and the log file says that the job failed, the job will not be deleted.  This is a special case for temporary jobs.

Output Controls

Log file name

This specifies where to place the job log file that is created during job execution. Any file name that is provided is parsed and a default of' job_name.LOG'' is used to complete any missing elements.

Versions

Number of versions of the log file that should be kept.

Keep log file (checkbox)

Keep log file upon completion

Delete script file (checkbox)

Delete the job temporary script file on completion.

 

Run Controls (Advanced)

 

Command interpreter

This specifies which Shell will be enabled for the job. The default value is ksh.