IBM 4J manual Specify retain=initial

Parameter	Description	Values
startt	Identifies the date, day, and time to start the	[date day] [,hh:mm:ss [am pm]]
	Process. Sterling Connect:Direct places the	date—Specifies the day (dd), month (mm), and
	Process in the Timer queue in WS (Waiting for
	Start Time) status. The date, day, and time are	year (yy), which you can code as mm/dd/yyyy
	positional parameters. If you do not specify	or mm-dd-yyyy. If you only specify date, the time
	date or day, a comma must precede time.	defaults to 00:00:00, which indicates midnight.
		The current date is the default.
	Do not code the startt parameter when you	day—Specifies the day of the week. Values are
	specify retain=initial.
		today, tomorrow, yesterday, monday, tuesday,
		wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, and
		sunday.
		hh:mm:ss [am pm]—Specifies the time of day in
		hours (hh), minutes (mm), and seconds (ss). You
		can specify the hour in either 12- or 24-hour
		format. If you use 12-hour format, then you must
		specify am or pm. The default is the 24-hour
		format. The default value is 00:00:00, which
		indicates midnight. If you specify only the day
		value, the time defaults to 00:00:00. This means
		that if you submit a Process on Monday, with
		monday as the only startt parameter, the Process
		does not run until the following Monday at
		midnight.
&symbolic	Specifies a symbolic parameter assigned a	variable string 1
name 1	value. The value is substituted within the	variable string 2
&symbolic	Process when the symbolic parameter is
	encountered.	variable string n
name 2
&symbolic	The value for the symbolic parameter must be	The symbolic name cannot exceed 32 characters.
	in double quotation marks if it is a keyword or
name n	contains special characters. If you want to
	reserve the double quotation marks when the
	symbolic name is resolved in the Process,
	enclose the double-quoted string in single
	quotes, for example:
	&filename = “‘filename with spaces'”
	The symbolic name itself must not be a subset
	of any other symbolic name. (You cannot have,
	for example, a symbolic name called ¶m
	and another symbolic name called ¶meter
	in the same Process.)

Chapter 1. Controlling and Monitoring Processes 11