Checking Daily Schedules

Theme: Configure
Who Is It For? Operations Staff, System Administrator

What Is It?

Checking Daily Schedules validates job dependencies in the Daily tables. It can:

• Detect circular dependencies
• Determine if a Requires dependency cannot be resolved
• Determine if Conflict or After dependencies are not satisfied

Continuous recommends running the check against every new schedule and after major revisions. The check can run against a date for all schedules or against specific schedules.

• Checking specific schedules does not check their subschedules
• To check a subschedule, specify it as the schedule to check
• Specify a date to check all schedules and subschedules on that date

Processing is managed by the SMASchedMan program. Refer to SMASchedMan in the Server Programs online help.

If the check fails and was started by an OpCon Event, the SAM processes events on the SMA_SKD_CHECK job. Refer to SMA_SKD Jobs on the AdHoc Schedule.

Schedule checks can be managed by:

• Automation using:
  • OpCon events (refer to Schedule-Related Events)
  • The DoBatch utility (refer to DoBatch)
• Request through the graphical interfaces

Configuration Options

Setting	What It Does	Default	Notes

Operations

Common Tasks

• Run a schedule check against every new schedule and after major revisions to detect circular dependencies, unresolvable Requires dependencies, and unsatisfied Conflict or After dependencies before production.
• To check a specific schedule, specify it by name; checking a specific schedule does not check its subschedules — specify the subschedule separately if needed.
• To check all schedules and subschedules for a date, specify the date rather than a specific schedule name.
• Schedule checks can be automated using OpCon events (Schedule-Related Events) or the DoBatch utility, or requested through the graphical interfaces.

Alerts and Log Files

• Check processing is managed by the SMASchedMan program; if the check fails and was started by an OpCon Event, SAM processes events on the SMA_SKD_CHECK job on the AdHoc schedule.

FAQs

Q: What does checking a Daily Schedule validate?

Checking a Daily Schedule validates job dependencies in the Daily tables. It detects circular dependencies, determines if a Requires dependency cannot be resolved, and identifies unsatisfied Conflict or After dependencies.

Q: Does checking a specific schedule also check its subschedules?

No. Checking a specific schedule does not check its subschedules. To check a subschedule, specify it as the schedule to check. To check all schedules and subschedules on a date, specify the date rather than a specific schedule.

Q: When should you run a schedule check?

Continuous recommends running a check against every new schedule and after major revisions to catch dependency issues before they cause problems in production.

Glossary

SAM (Schedule Activity Monitor): The logical processor for OpCon workflow automation. SAM monitors schedule and job start times, dependencies, and user commands to determine job execution timing, and processes OpCon events.

Subschedule: A schedule that runs as a child process within a Container job, allowing hierarchical, nested workflow automation where a parent schedule can trigger and monitor an entire child schedule.

Daily Tables: The OpCon database tables that hold the active, date-specific instances of schedules and jobs built for execution. Changes to daily tables affect only the current day's automation.

OpCon Event: A command sent to OpCon that triggers an automated action, such as adding a job to a schedule, updating a property value, sending a notification, or changing a job or schedule status.

Schedule: A named container for jobs in OpCon, built for a specific date to create that day's automation. Schedules define build settings, frequencies, and the jobs that run within them.

Job: The fundamental unit of work in OpCon. A job defines what to run, on which machine, when to start, and what conditions must be met. Job results are tracked and can trigger events and notifications.

OpCon: Continuous' workflow automation platform. The OpCon server includes the database, SAM and Supporting Services (SAM-SS), and graphical user interfaces. agents installed on target platforms run jobs and report results.