The backup or restore jobs created by you can be administered anytime. You can delete, hold, reschedule, cancel, or enable a job.
On the SBCON Main Menu at the server, the Current Job List option gives you a job management facility where you can delete a job, hold a job, or enable it if it has been disabled after a job failure. You can also monitor the status of the backup/restore jobs you have submitted.
Current Job List provides the following information about all jobs submitted.
The name of the server from which the job was submitted . See Viewing the Job Queue.
The job name that you entered on the Backup Options form . The job name can be changed using the Job Details screen if you are rescheduling it to run another time and you want to change the name. See Viewing Job Details.
The Hold status . If you want to prevent a prescheduled job from execution, you can put it on Hold. See Postponing a Job.
The job status. You can see whether it finished the execution of the request, or if it was submitted for execution at a later time. Other statuses are: active currently, could not run, processing, failed, and success. The log of each of these status reports can be viewed using the log and error reporting. For more details see Section 3.6, Managing Log and Error Files.
Select Main Menu > Job Administration > Current Job List.
The Queue Jobs screen displays a list of all jobs, showing each job name, hold status, status of the job, and name of the server from where the job was submitted.
This screen gives you all the details of the job you submitted including job name, the time the job was submitted, and the time the job should be executed. You can also schedule the job to run again at a predefined time after its execution.
Ensure that you have met the prerequisites detailed in Section 3.1, Prerequisites for Performing SBCON Tasks.
Select Main Menu > Job Administration > Current Job List.
Select one of the jobs listed and press Enter.
The Job Details screen appears, displaying the following information:
Job Name – A descriptive name of the job for your identification. You can change the name if you want to reschedule the job and run it again.
Disabled – Indicates whether the job is disabled. If it is, this field displays Yes; if enabled, it displays No. Updates to this field depend on the job status. If the job status is Could Not Finish, the message is Yes. You can perform the required troubleshooting and change this field to No, subsequently allowing the job to execute. After completion of the job, the Disabled field indicates Yes.
Submitted By – The name of the server where you have submitted the job.
Submitted at – The date and time the job was submitted. The execution time could be different depending upon the specifications you defined in Execution Time and Scheduling Options in the same screen.
Entry Open – The status is Yes when the job is active and No when it is inactive. This is one of the fields that is updated automatically.
Execution Time – An option to give the time and date when you want the job to run. It is the same as the Execution Time in the Advanced Backup Options form.
Serviced By – This indicates the name of the server where the job is to be executed. From a single server, you can submit jobs to various servers. This field indicates which job is serviced by which server. This field is active only when the job is active; otherwise, it indicates None.
Scheduling Options – You can schedule the same job to run at another time. For information, see Customizing Backup.
Session Report – Press Enter at this field to view the session log report or the session error report for the particular session you selected. The same information can be seen in the Error Log File where it gives a log of all the jobs. For information, see Viewing a Log File.
This task lets you to place a job on hold.
Ensure that you have met the prerequisites detailed in Section 3.1, Prerequisites for Performing SBCON Tasks.
Select Main Menu > Job Administration > Current Job List.
The Queue Jobs screen appears with a list of jobs.
Select a job and press Tab.
The job is on hold if Hold is displayed in the column. If no status is displayed, it is ready for execution at the time you configured it. Press Tab to toggle holding a job.