If your system does not have the Management Central Scheduler or the Advanced Job Scheduler, you can still schedule jobs using a job schedule entry, which is accessed from the character-based interface. Using this method you can schedule jobs to recur or to run only once.
Since job schedule entries are entries in a permanent object, they do not stay on the job queue like the scheduled jobs, and therefore they are not lost when the job queue is cleared. You can also save and restore the job schedule object. This provides a method of backing up your job scheduling information.
When you want a job to process at regular intervals, you create a job schedule entry for the job. The job schedule entry contains all of the information that is necessary to submit a job and its scheduling information. Each entry in the object is uniquely identified by the job name that you supply and a 6-digit entry number that is assigned by the system. No two entries have the same job name and entry number combinations.
The job schedule entry also contains information used by the system to manage the entry in certain situations. The information that defines the job is similar to the parameters specified on a Submit Job (SBMJOB) command, including job name, job description, job queue, user profile, and message queue. The local data area (LDA) of the job submitted from the job schedule entry is blank when the job starts.