Base Calendars

Base Calendars

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Base calendars define available processing days for the installation. Any number of base calendars may be defined. However, it may be possible to satisfy installation requirements with only one or two calendars.

Base calendars can be generated through either batch or online facilities. To use the online facility (DB.2.8), a CA-7 calendar PDS must be allocated and identified to CA-7.

Processing of base calendars for resolution of schedules is the same regardless of whether they were generated using the batch or online facilities.

Calendars can be generated through the CA-7 CALENDAR macro. Macro keywords ara used for calendar definition and the macro is assembled and link edited using standard procedures. Base calendars are link edited to the CA-7 LOADLIB or a specified calendar library, and are stored in the form of bit masks which represent available and unavailable processing days for the year.

we can maintain base calender in ca7 by using DB.2.8

This screen provides the means to list, add, update and delete CA-7  base calendars. New  and updated  calendars are immediately available to other CA-7  functions, such as Resolve, without the need for a SCAL statement in the CA-7 initialization file. To use online base calendar maintenance, the CA-7  calendar PDS must be defined to CA-7 through the  CALENDAR  statement  in the CA-7 initialization file 

in Ca7 if we give DB2.8 then an panel will open in that panel we will give function as update

and job name select calender

it will show 0,1 for all the days in that month

0--> No Exhaustion on that day 

1--> Exhaustion on that day 

if we want to change any job from Exhaustion to  No Exhaustion then 

we can edit and place 0 in place of 1