Clearing a Periodic Schedule

If you decide you don't need to have anymore recurring batch jobs, you can clear the scheduled jobs from the Periodic Schedule. Once the Periodic Schedule is empty, the batch jobs in the Default Schedule come into effect.

You can clear existing jobs from a Periodic Schedule without creating any new jobs. However, when you clear a Periodic Schedule, you clear all of the jobs that exist for that schedule.

To clear your Periodic Schedule, simply follow Type Setper in a Linux shell and press [Enter]. The system prompts you for the machine or machines whose Periodic Schedule you want to modify.Decide if you want to remove the existing schedule or not. listed in Setting a Periodic Schedule , then follow these steps:

1.

Type y when you reach the following prompt:

WOULD YOU LIKE TO CLEAR THE SCHEDULE OF PRE-EXISTING ENTRIES? (y/n) [n]

2.

Type n when you reach the following prompt:

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SCHEDULE ANY ENTRIES? (y/n) [y]

This clears the Periodic Schedule and displays an empty schedule, confirming that the system cleared the jobs.