batch job to run every day automatically.

[Teofil Smolowicz]

Hein,
Ic.
I've always wondered why submit hasn't got qualifier like /REPEAT with or w/o some keywords.
Thanks for your reply.
Regards --- Teofil

[Robert Gezelter]

Teofil,

While I have never worked for OpenVMS Engineering, I suspect that "Repeat at interval" was not done for a variety of reasons, one of which is that including the SUBMIT command in the command file is straightforward.

It is true that rescheduling precisely (and I mean "precisely") the same job could be done by merely adding a delta time field to the queue record, many, many repeating jobs are not so simple. Often parameters, both as inputs to the job, and to the job controller, vary in many ways. It is not easy, and may be impossible, to embrace all of the desired variability.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com