Nikhil,

The reason we can't use the sleep command is that we want to use remote hosts on the servers and not have to load an agent.

Anyone have any other suggestions?

Answer anyone?

What are you using for the ping job? A script?, a single command?

We have 8 servers that cannot be down at the same time. I'm trying to setup a job to reboot each server after it has been patched. I have the first job executing a shutdown reboot command. The second job I'd like to have is a job that pings the server. Upon a successful ping and job end, I'd like to...

I have a cmem file that forces a mainframe job out into the schedule when a dataset has been created. The file gets created at approx 5am and we don't want the forced job to start until 8:30. Our ODATE changes at 8am. The time in the forced job is 8:30 but when the cmem dataset gets created at 5:30a...

I have two serparate EM's. One in Production and one in Development. If I want to logon to either one, I have to logoff and change the Host name in my advanced tab, hit apply, and go from there. I'd like to have a dropdown to select which Ctrlm. Anyone know how to set this up?

Still looking for help ..... anyone have any ideas?

I'm looking to create a report using the reporting facility but cannot find a way to do it. I'm trying to create a list of jobs and their associated calendar names. Sounds simple but the reporting facility seems to make it harder. Am I missing something? FYI, We do not have BIM. Can someone help here?

I'm trying to create a report of all my production jobs that actually have hardcopy print associated with them with job start and end times.. I have identified these jobs and was looking for some way to mark these in Control-M. I was thinking of adding a quantitative resourse called print. I need to...

Are any known issues with Control-M while upgrading the Operating System or SQL Server to R2

That works but the monthly job flucuates every month. Could be the 26th, the 28th, etc

Thanks Nicolas but....... It gets better. We have a close date every 21 work days. This date flucuates every month. As an example, A daily job runs every day with say.... parm of 201008, until the 25th. The monthly job runs on the 26th of the month. On the 27th, the daily job runs and we want to use...

I have a distributed job that the user wants a variable of the next month. If the job runs on the 26th of August, the current month would be 08. They want to use a September variable as 09. How can I do this in the set panel?

I'm not looking to schedule a job. I'm trying to use parms in the set tab so it can be used in his program. Not being a programmer is making it difficult for me to code this. Anyone have code to do this ?

Just a followup on my question. I deleted the persons desktop after copying off all the favorites, etc. When he logged back on, all the fields were there. Looks like a corruption issue somewhere. Anyone else having the same problem?