Locking and Unlocking Sessions

Use

You can lock a session to prevent the system from running it before the date that you specify in the lock.

For example, a session locked until the eleventh of November can be started only after that date.

You may wish to lock a session for such reasons as

• holding a session until a specified date

• preventing a session that contains errors from being re-started

• preventing a session that requires a special resource, such as printer forms or a specific tape, from being started unintentionally.

You can unlock a session by changing the lock date to the present date or by entering a space as the lock date.

Prerequisites

Start the batch input management tool: Select System  Service  Batch input  Sessions. Alternate: Enter transaction SM35. Both paths take you to the session overview of the batch input system. transaction SM35.

Procedure

You can lock sessions in the session queue by marking the sessions and choosing Lock from the tool bar.