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Hi

What is NIGHT parameter in job card?
When and How to use this parameter.

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That's a completey new one for me. Please post the JCL and indicate where the NIGHT parameter is.

Hi,
I read somewhere, NIGHT parameter is used to request/schedule a job to run after midnight, specially in those cases, when we need to run 'request/one time job' in production.
Though I am not sure, it may look something like:/*NIGHT,ATIME=0100*/,to indicate, that the job will be running at 1 AM, next morning.

Hi expat

I do not have any JCL with NIGHT parm.But now we need to add this Parametr in our job card to make it off Peak.I have never used it before.
So wanted to know like when n how it helps.

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Unfortunately I can not find any reference to NIGHT in the manuals. Is this a site specific command / exit at your site.

I can only suggest that you speak to your site support / admin people to find out.

Many sites use the job class to provide something similar. For example CLASS=N, (N for night). That won't work these days when many sites just use work load management for job scheduling.

Hi

I got to know from some one that we use NIGHT tomake the job off peak.
In JOB card give as JOB (,,NIGHT).
Typos corrected. . .

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