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  2. Introducing Administrator
  3. Organizations
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Organization Administration

Organization Administration

Configuring a blackout period

Configuring a blackout period

A blackout period prevents all scheduled tasks and taskflows in the organization from running during a specified period of time. You can configure a blackout period during which the scheduled
Data Integration
and
Data Ingestion and Replication
file publications and file subscriptions don't run.
You can configure one blackout period for an organization
or sub-organization
.
The blackout period you configure for a parent organization does not effect the sub-organizations.
If a task is scheduled to run during a blackout period, the task instance will not be started during the blackout period, and it will not restart automatically when the blackout period ends. After the blackout period, task instances will resume according to the schedule. If a task is already running when a blackout period starts, it will not be stopped.
To configure a blackout period, in
Administrator
, select
Schedules
, and then click
Blackout Period
. The blackout period is displayed on the
Schedules
page.

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KEVIN REXROAD - November 07, 2022

Does this delay the running of scheduled jobs (i.e. scheduled jobs get paused until the period ends) or do the jobs never run and you just don't get an error message about the failure? The article should explain the impact to the jobs better. 


Informatica Documentation Team - November 07, 2022

Hello Kevin Rexroad,

Thanks for your inquiry! We will verify the behavior with our development and QA teams and get back to you shortly.

Sincerely,

Informatica Documenation Team


Informatica Documentation Team - November 09, 2022

Hello Kevin Rexroad,

We've heard back from our QA team. In regards to scheduled tasks, the blackout period works as follows:

  • If a task is scheduled to run during a blackout period, the task instance will not be started during the blackout period, and it will not restart automatically when the blackout period ends. After the blackout period, task instances will resume according to the schedule.
  • If a task is already running when a blackout period starts, it will not be stopped.

We will clarify this in the documentation for the next major release.

Thanks again for your inquiry!

Sincerely,

Informatica Documentation Team


Andy Hahn - October 29, 2024

If a blackout period is scheduled in the main-org, will it apply to all of its sub-orgs?

Informatica Documentation Team - October 29, 2024

Hi Andy, 

Thanks for reaching out! We're currently verifying this with our development and QA teams and will get back to you shortly.


Informatica Documentation Team - October 29, 2024

Hi Andy,

We verified with our development team that configuring a blackout period in the parent organization does not affect the sub-organizations.We'll clarify this in the documentation in an upcoming release.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!


Rebecca Armstrong - November 18, 2024

Hello, is there a way you can configure certain tasks to temporarily disable/black out, as some jobs are affected by outages but not all jobs.

Informatica Documentation Team - November 19, 2024

Hi Rebecca,

Thanks for reaching out! We're currently investigating this and will get back to you shortly.


Informatica Documentation Team - November 19, 2024

Hi Rebecca,

Thanks again for your query! We've confirmed with our development team that the blackout period applies to all jobs in the organization and that there's no way to selectively disable jobs.