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<h1 class="topictitle1">Job scheduler considerations</h1>
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<div><p>When choosing a job scheduler product, you need to consider a variety
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of different features. The following is a list of features to consider when
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determining which job scheduler to use:</p>
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<div class="p"><ul><li><strong>Automated job scheduling</strong><ul><li>Flexibility in scheduling jobs</li>
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<li>Unattended (or attended) job processing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
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with total compliance to the schedules you set</li>
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<li>Natural extension of the iSeries™ operating system</li>
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<li>Complete control of how, when, and where a job is submitted</li>
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<li>Extensive job dependencies such as objects (existence of a file or records
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within a physical file), the activity or inactivity of other jobs, or the
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status of a line, controller, or subsystem</li>
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<li>Complete calendaring functions, including fiscal and holiday calendars</li>
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<li>Multiple runs per day</li>
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</li>
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<li><strong>System and user-defined parameters</strong><ul><li>Current<sup>®</sup> date,
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submission date, previous date, and current time can be passed into application
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programs</li>
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<li>User-defined parameter values can be created, changed, and passed into
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application programs</li>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Workload/history forecasting</strong><ul><li>Forecasts all scheduled jobs to be run next week, next month, or next
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day</li>
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<li>Optimize production requirements</li>
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<li>Historical tracking and logging of all Advanced Job Scheduler activity</li>
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</ul>
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<p></p>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Network management</strong><ul><li>Jobs can be set up on any iSeries server in the network to run
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on any other iSeries server
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on the network</li>
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<li>Provides complete job history of the job on the submitting system</li>
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<li>Group and dependent jobs can be submitted through the network</li>
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<p></p>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Report distribution and management</strong><ul><li>Routing, monitoring, and controlling of all output reports generated by
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Advanced Job Scheduler or iSeries operating system</li>
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<li>Spooled file distribution to multiple output queues or to remote systems
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with optional banner pages</li>
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<li>Spooled output can be duplicated or sent to any user on the iSeries network</li>
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<li><strong>Security</strong><ul><li>Existing iSeries security
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can be utilized within Advanced Job Scheduler</li>
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<li>Specify who in your organization has authority to set up or change information
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about scheduled jobs</li>
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<li>Authority can be specified for either the individual functions of Advanced
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Job Scheduler or for specific jobs</li>
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<p></p>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Graphical user interface</strong><ul><li>Point and click capabilities when scheduling a job</li>
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<li>Manage jobs</li>
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<li>Maintain dependencies</li>
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<li>Track scheduler activity and log information</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Other key features</strong><ul><li>Multiple commands per job</li>
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<li>Definition for job LDA (Local Data Area)</li>
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<li>Console monitor to run jobs in restricted state</li>
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<li>Check maximum run time for each job</li>
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<li>Interface directly to a message-based third-party paging system</li>
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<li>Provisions for full online documentation of each job</li>
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<li>Extensive cursor-sensitive help text on all displays</li>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzaksschedulejobs.htm" title="The job schedule function allows for time-dependent scheduling of iSeries batch jobs. You can schedule jobs to be released from the job queue at a particular time, or you can use a job schedule entry to submit your job to the job queue automatically at the time you specify. Job scheduling allows you to control the date and time a batch job is submitted to or becomes eligible to start from a job queue. This flexibility can help you as you balance the work load on your system.">Job scheduling options</a></div>
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<div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
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<div><a href="rzaksmcscheduler.htm" title="iSeries Navigator provides an integrated scheduler, the Management Central scheduler, to organize when you want your jobs to process. You have the option of choosing to perform a task immediately or choosing a later time. You can use the Management Central scheduler to schedule almost any task in Management Central.">Management Central scheduler</a></div>
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<div><a href="rzaksajsmanage.htm" title="The Advanced Job Scheduler licensed program (5722-JS1) is a robust scheduler that allows unattended job processing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This scheduling tool provides more calendar features and offers greater control over scheduled events than the Management Central scheduler. You can also view job completion history and manage notification of a job's status.">Advanced Job Scheduler</a></div>
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<div><a href="rzaksjobscheduleentry.htm" title="If your system does not have the Management Central Scheduler or the Advanced Job Scheduler, you can still schedule jobs using a job schedule entry, which is accessed from the character-based interface. Using this method you can schedule jobs to recur or to run only once.">Job schedule entries</a></div>
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<div><a href="rzakshowjobsrschdsbmjob.htm" title="This character-based interface command controls the time a job is released in the job queue. It is an easy way to schedule a job that only needs to run once. It allows you to use many of the job attributes defined for your current job.">The submit job command</a></div>
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<div><a href="rzaksjobschdlnsysavailable.htm" title="If the system is powered down or in restricted state when scheduled times are reached, jobs cannot be submitted from job schedule entries and the status of scheduled jobs cannot be changed. However, you can control how the system handles this situation after the system IPL or after it comes out of restricted state.">Job scheduling and system availability</a></div>
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