> I'm running SAS 6.07 on MVS. We have both MVS SAS and UNIX SAS > here, and I've noticed that it's possible to set a time to start > running a SAS job on UNIX. Is it possible to do the same thing in > MVS?

If you are submitting your MVS SAS jobs for batch processing, you can add an after card to your JCL, which can include either a jobname or a time after which you want your job to run. So if you want your job to start at 9:00 pm, your after card would look like

//after 2100

If you had a specific job that had to run first, you would give that job a name in its jobcard (such as //firstjob job .......), and in the after card of your subsequent job(s), you could have

//after firstjob

> Also, I usually have to run the same reports at specific times of > the month, Is there a way to batch jobs together so I can submit just > one job, instead of five or six? >

I would write a clist for this. If you always submit the exact same jobstreams (as members of a dataset, for example), your clist could be as simple as:

sub reports.batch(report1) sub reports.batch(report2) sub reports.batch(report3)

And your jobs will be submitted one after another. If you need to change some parameters, you could set up a skeleton job, and then have your clist make substitutions. I won't go into that here, but if you need to go that far, I'd be happy to give you some help off the list.

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