Scheduling Job to Run on Specific Days of Specific Months

I have a job that needs to run on the first day of February and September. I have considered scheduling the job to run on the first of every month and just wrapping the script's code in a check of the month. Using the scheduler, is it possible to just schedule a job to only run on a specific day for specific months?

yes - it is possible in 24x7 MP Edition. no - it is not possible in Windows Edition. If you are using MP Edition, create a new "inclusive" calendar and select months and days that you want to use. If you are using Windows editor, please schedule it to run monthly and in the job code add a check for month number or name.

I installed the MP version on my machine because we are considering switching to it. The use of calendars is a neat feature. I read the help documentation pages entitled "Calendar Properties Dialog" and "About calendar," but I didn't see anything specifying whether or not the selected dates will be repeated for every year. We would like the job to run every year on the 1st of February and 1st of September. Is there a way to set this without having to select 2/1/10, 9/1/10, 2/1/11, 9/1/11, etc...?

Hi.

For "inclusive" type calendars, you should key all dates in advance, in other words, define the date universe.

When choosing an inclusive calendar for a job, you typically should set the job to run every day, all days. Only the days in "inclusive" calendar are the days available to the job.

Note you can import calendars from text files, so it's dead easy to programmatically generate a calendar for decades in advance and import it into 24x7.

Cheers

Thank you. Indeed one can use Excel or other similar tool to generate date series and save them into a tab-separated file, then import that file into 24x7.