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Old 06-21-2014
Thanks rudi n don... am testing this tomorrow .. Will getback with the result. .. Thanks once again. ..
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Old 06-21-2014
nanz143,
If you are using Autosys, why don't you use a calendar definition to run the script only on Sundays?
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Old 06-22-2014
Hi mfj,
I already have a calendar and a job scheduled for it... but I am updating few modules inside the script... so just wanted to ensure it wont run by mistake on other days
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Old 06-22-2014
As far as i understand your query, you may use cron tab to run run the script on specified day.I dont understand the worth of calender here. So please give a detail query to assist you more.
Thanks
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Old 06-22-2014
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Originally Posted by vinil
As far as i understand your query, you may use cron tab to run run the script on specified day.I dont understand the worth of calender here. So please give a detail query to assist you more.
Thanks
It seems to be quite clearly:

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Originally Posted by nanz143
and any one can request for start of this job,

But my requirement is, when some one runs this script, script should run and check that it if current day is sunday only then it should run.
to be not a matter of "running on Sundays" but of "not running on any other day". With cron you can only make sure it is run at a certain time.

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Old 06-22-2014
Cron is disabled in our environment. .
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Old 06-22-2014
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I already have a calendar and a job scheduled for it... but I am updating few modules inside the script... so just wanted to ensure it wont run by mistake on other days
nanz143, if you have the Autosys job defined to only run on Sunday's at a set time(s), then it will only run on Sunday's. If you are worried about the possibility that someone could manually force start the job on non-Sunday's then you have a bigger issue.
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