The following example shows how a deadline type is applied to a job. Also shown are the //*MAIN and DEADLINE statements which specify the job deadline and deadline type. The //*MAIN statement indicates that the deadline is 8 a.m. March 21, 1975 and the deadline type is A. The DEADLINE statement defines type A, which causes a job priority to be set to 10 one hour before the job's deadline and causes the priority to be incremented by 1 every 30 minutes until the job is complete.

DEADLINE,A=(10,1H,+1,30M)
//*MAIN DEADLINE=(800,A,032175)