Editing Processes

A Process is an instance of a Job or Workflow that has been scheduled to run, is running, or has already run.

If a Process has not yet reached Running status, you can edit its scheduled start time, Queue, and other properties. If it is a recurring Process, you can edit its properties for all recurrences.

To edit the selected Process, choose an option from the Actions menu, or right-click the Process and choose an option from its context menu.

Editing Recurring Processes

A recurring Process is a Process that is configured to run at regular intervals. You can make a Process recur by choosing an option other than Now and Once in the Time and Dates screen of the Submit Wizard. There are two types of recurring Processes: those with and without a Submit Frame.

If you right-click a recurring Process in the Process Monitor and choose Scheduling > Edit, the Edit Multiple Processes wizard displays. On the Select Process action screen of this wizard, you can choose whether you want to edit the recurring Process (Edit the recurrence) or delay the recurring Process using several options. If you choose Edit the recurrence, any changes you make will affect all future recurrences of the Process.

If you edit a Process that uses a Submit Frame, you get an additional option: Edit the selected Process only. If you choose this option, the Process will no longer be a recurring process.

If you hold, cancel, kill, resubmit, or restart a Process with a Submit Frame, you should be aware of how that affects the recurrence of the Process.

• Hold: Interrupts the Submit Frame recurrences only if you hold all presubmitted Process executions at the same time.
• Cancel: Cancels all Submit Frame recurrences only if you cancel all presubmitted Process executions at the same time.
• Kill: Has no effect on Submit Frame recurrences.
• Resubmit and Restart: If you choose one of these options, another instance of the Process is created, with its own Submit Frame. This effectively leaves you with two recurring copies of the Process.

Tip: You can customize this behavior by changing the Job call or Workflow call's restart behavior.

Note: Changes to Submit Frame recurrences affect all Processes that have not reached the status Running.

Tip: If you want control over which Submit Frame recurrences are affected, put all of the recurring Process executions on Hold to make sure you have enough time to perform the change. Remember to release them when you're done.