Managing Jobs and Reports

Lawson provides tools for managing your jobs and reports, including Reports, Jobs Schedule, and Multi-Step Job Definition. With these tools you can submit a job, check your job status on the job queue, view a job, print it, and work with print files.

This section describes options available from the Job Schedule form and the Job List form. Select the link for information about working with print files. For more information, see Working with Print Files. Select the link for information about the job definition. For more information, see Running a Multiple-Step Job.

Job Schedule Form

The Job Schedule provides useful information about the report/batch updates, including job name, job description, job queue, start and stop date/time, and status. You can choose to view jobs based on whether their status falls into the Active, Completed, or Waiting category. You access Job Schedule by clicking Job Schedule on the Related Forms menu on the Job List and Print Files forms.

By default, the Job Schedule form lists jobs by date. The most recent job shows first. The timestamps that is displayed in Job Schedule forms are based on the time zone currently used in Jobs and Reports.

You can use Job Schedule to delete jobs, recover Needs Recovery or Invalid Parameters jobs, and view the job log for each job.

In addition to its job scheduling functions, Job Schedule also provides access to the Job List, Multi-Step Job Definition, and Print Files through the Related Forms menu.

You can also select the Search button to open the Search dialog box. Use this feature to find and filter the jobs. Use the Find feature to display the first occurrences. Click Find to perform the search. Select the filter option to display all occurrences of the search criteria. Click Filter to filter the search criteria.

Submit Job Form

You can use the Submit Job form to select the job queue for a batch update or report and set a start date and time for the processing of the batch update or report.

The Submit Job form is displayed when you click Submit Job on any of these locations: Job Schedule, Job List, and Multi-Step Job Definition form.

Job List Form

The Job List form lists all available jobs, both batch updates and reports, for a particular user. From the Job List form, you can perform such actions as delete a job definition, view parameters, view the print file, or submit a job.

You can access the Job List form in several ways, depending on what content you are currently working with. You can access it by clicking Job Sched on a batch parameter form and by clicking Job List on the Related forms menu for the Job Schedule and Print Files form.