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jgelona
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I have a new job with a schedule that RC can't handle (at least my version). The job is to run once each month on the first business day after the 3rd. For example, the job in Feb is supposed to run on Feb 4th. Since that is the first time the job will run, that's no problem. However, the job is supposed to run on Mar 4th, then Apr 4th, May 5th, Jun 4th, Jul 7th, etc. I have a Dialogue Manager routine that will calculate the next run date (run time is always 6am). I was hoping that I could use a post-procsessing fex to update the schedule. Anyone know how I can update the Report Caster Schedule? Is there a user-subroutine like DSTRUN that can be called to update the RC repository?


In FOCUS since 1985. Prod WF 8.0.08 (z90/Suse Linux) DB (Oracle 11g), Self Serv, Report Caster, WebServer Intel/Linux.
 
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Prarie
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If you do a search on this Forum..there are a lot of interesting ideas out there that may help you out on this one.


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FrankDutch
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JG

how about creating a small text file that holds the dates you want the process to be run.

Then in the report you want to run first run a small fex that tests if there is a record in that database.

TABLE FILE DATASET
PRINT RUNDATE
WHERE RUNDATE EQ &TODAY
ON TABLE HOLD
END
-RUN
-SET &&KILL_RPC=IF &LINES GT 0 THEN 'N' ELSE 'Y';


So the reportcaster job will not be executed if there is no record in the database.

You have to set up the reportcaster job for every workday at 6am.




Frank
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jgelona
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Frank, I've thought of that. In fact I have another job that runs on the 1st, every Friday and the last day of the month that is not a holiday or Sat or Sun where I do just that. I have a pre-processing fex that determines if these conditions exist and sets &&KILL_RPC to run or not. As this job runs just once a month I was hoping there was an easy way to set the next run date. I looked in the RC configuration to see where the repository was stored. It on an SQL server and RC gets to it via JDBC. I tried to set up the same connection in the Reporting Server but it did not work. I'm going to get with my tech rep when he gets back from vacation. I think that once I have a connection set up in the Reporting Server, I can use SQL or MODIFY to update the next run date.


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