Manage the Advanced Job Scheduler

The following information will help you manage the Advanced Job Scheduler. First you need to schedule jobs using the Advanced Job Scheduler. Then, use the rest of the tasks to manage the jobs.

• Create and schedule a job
  Schedule a job and specify the commands that are associated with the job. You can also specify starting and ending commands to run a special version of a scheduled job.
• Create and schedule a job group
  Set up and schedule a series of jobs that run consecutively in a specified order. Jobs within a job group require completion before the next job is submitted for processing.
• Predefined schedules
  Create schedules that contain information needed to schedule a job or calculate exception dates within a holiday calendar.
• Create a temporary scheduled job
  At times it might be necessary to run a scheduled job now or in the future in addition to its normal schedule. Use the Submit Job using Job Scheduler (SBMJOBJS) command, option 7 from Work with Jobs display, or the Run option from iSeries™ Navigator. It might also be necessary to process only a portion of the commands in the command list when setting up this special run.
• Schedule job dependencies
  Set up jobs or groups of jobs that are dependent on each other. You can select the type of dependency that reflects how jobs are processed in your environment.
• The Work Flow Manager
  As of V5R4, the Work Flow Manager lets you define units of work that consist of automated or manual steps. These units of work can then be scheduled or run interactively. The Work Flow Manager is located in the Advanced Job Scheduler container in the iSeries™ Navigator interface.
• Monitor job activity for the Advanced Job Scheduler
  Use Advanced Job Scheduler to view a job or a job group's history or status. You can also set up the activity retention, which is how long you want to retain the activity records for a job.
• Monitor for messages with Advanced Job Scheduler
  Add message identifiers to any command within the command list of a job to monitor messages.
• Create and work with local data area
  A local data area is a portion of space that is allocated for a job. Not all jobs use their local data area but some do. Each command within a job has access to the job's local data area. You might want to use a local data area if you are scheduling a job that previously required you to manually specify additional parameters. Use the local data area to specify the additional parameters so you do not need to manually specify them each time the job starts.
• Create and work with applications/job controls
  Applications are jobs that are grouped for processing. They are broader than job groups and do not necessarily process sequentially. Jobs in applications can process simultaneously and one job does not need to wait for another to process. All jobs within the application can be worked with and can have their own set of job defaults. Job controls are the defaults assigned to a job as you add it to the job scheduler as well as defaults used when the job is submitted.
• Work with notification
  This information describes how to use the notification function of Advanced Job Scheduler.
• Work with library lists
  Library lists are user-defined lists of libraries that are used by the Advanced Job Scheduler when a job is processing.
• Work with command variables
  A command variable (previously known as a parameter) is a variable you can store and use in jobs submitted through the Advanced Job Scheduler. Examples of command variables include the beginning of each month, a division number, a company number, and so on.