this is what supplementary documentation of BTCSTATUS says:
The statuses have the following meanings:
- Scheduled: not yet been released to run.
- Released: released to run.
- Ready: start date and time have come: awaiting execution.
- Active: currently running.
After a system failure, can indicate that a job was interrupted by the failure and must be manually restarted.
- Finished: successfully completed.
- Aborted: not successfully completed.
and :
CONSTANTS:
btc_running TYPE tbtco-status VALUE 'R',
btc_ready TYPE tbtco-status VALUE 'Y',
btc_scheduled TYPE tbtco-status VALUE 'P',
btc_intercepted TYPE btcstatus VALUE btc_scheduled,
btc_released TYPE tbtco-status VALUE 'S',
btc_aborted TYPE tbtco-status VALUE 'A',
btc_finished TYPE tbtco-status VALUE 'F',
btc_put_active TYPE tbtco-status VALUE 'Z',
btc_unknown_state TYPE tbtco-status VALUE 'X'.
Now coming to your question:
I think ready should be released and scheduled shd be planned.