When choosing a job scheduler product, you need to consider a variety
of different features. The following is a list of features to consider when
determining which job scheduler to use:
- Automated job scheduling
- Flexibility in scheduling jobs
- Unattended (or attended) job processing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
with total compliance to the schedules you set
- Natural extension of the iSeries™ operating system
- Complete control of how, when, and where a job is submitted
- Extensive job dependencies such as objects (existence of a file or records
within a physical file), the activity or inactivity of other jobs, or the
status of a line, controller, or subsystem
- Complete calendaring functions, including fiscal and holiday calendars
- Multiple runs per day
- System and user-defined parameters
- Current® date,
submission date, previous date, and current time can be passed into application
programs
- User-defined parameter values can be created, changed, and passed into
application programs
- Workload/history forecasting
- Forecasts all scheduled jobs to be run next week, next month, or next
day
- Optimize production requirements
- Historical tracking and logging of all Advanced Job Scheduler activity
- Network management
- Jobs can be set up on any iSeries server in the network to run
on any other iSeries server
on the network
- Provides complete job history of the job on the submitting system
- Group and dependent jobs can be submitted through the network
- Report distribution and management
- Routing, monitoring, and controlling of all output reports generated by
Advanced Job Scheduler or iSeries operating system
- Spooled file distribution to multiple output queues or to remote systems
with optional banner pages
- Spooled output can be duplicated or sent to any user on the iSeries network
- Security
- Existing iSeries security
can be utilized within Advanced Job Scheduler
- Specify who in your organization has authority to set up or change information
about scheduled jobs
- Authority can be specified for either the individual functions of Advanced
Job Scheduler or for specific jobs
- Graphical user interface
- Point and click capabilities when scheduling a job
- Manage jobs
- Maintain dependencies
- Track scheduler activity and log information
- Other key features
- Multiple commands per job
- Definition for job LDA (Local Data Area)
- Console monitor to run jobs in restricted state
- Check maximum run time for each job
- Interface directly to a message-based third-party paging system
- Provisions for full online documentation of each job
- Extensive cursor-sensitive help text on all displays