Weekly run cycle example
Type = NORMAL Period = WEEK Offset = 4
Free-day rule = 1 Input arrival = 17.00 Deadline = 01 06.00
Description = Run Thursday or day before if Thursday is free
Type = NEGATIVE Period = FIRSTTHU Offset = 14
Free-day rule = 1 Input arrival = 17.00 Deadline = 01 06.00
Description = Exclude third Thursday of the month
The monthly group GPAYM runs on the third Thursday of the month. If you already have a monthly period with an origin date of the first of each month, you can specify a series of offsets and a negative run cycle to avoid the need for a separate period. For example, you could specify a normal run cycle MONTH with offsets 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 with a negative run cycle of WEEK with offsets 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7. The normal run cycle is selecting all days in the third week of the month, and the negative run cycle excludes all of those occurrences except the one generated for the third Thursday. This is a correct, if tedious, way of creating run cycles; however, these run cycles cannot reschedule the application to any other day because the negative run cycle always cancels the generated occurrence.