Hi Paul, Using the first Saturday plus five days will probably be the best approach. Unfortunately, I was so worried trying to figure out how to schedule two days backwards that I missed the obvious choice. For me, this is one of the main advantages of this group, pointing me to the right direction. Thank you Regards Jack
On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 at 17:36, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 18:21:25 +0200, Philippe Tessier wrote: > > >You define second Saturday with rule > > > Rule? Specify. > > > >>> On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 at 17:18, Philippe Tessier wrote: > >>> > >>> You define a run which is scheduled the Saturday and and the run def > you > >>> define an offset of -4 days > >>> > -4? -2? I no longer remember my high school French well enough to recall > the order of days in the French calendar. > > > >>>>> Le 23 août 2022 à 18:05, Jack Zukt a écrit : > >>>> > >>>> I need to execute a job every Thursday that takes place before the > second > >>>> Saturday of each month which, unfortunately, is not the second > Thursday of > >>>> > Would it work better to rewrite as either the first Saturday plus 5 days > or as > that Thursday which occurs on the 6th through 12th day of thee month, > inclusive? > > >>>> each month. Is there a way to do this using IWS? From what I have > gathered > >>>> so far, I can only use relative days for a future date, not for a > previous one. > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
