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<h1 class="topictitle1">What's new in Advanced Job Scheduler for V5R4</h1>
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<div><p>Several enhancements have been made to the Advanced Job Scheduler. </p>
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<div class="p"><strong>Add multiple commands to a scheduled task</strong><ul><li>A command list is a stored set of instructions that Advanced Job Scheduler
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uses to process Management Central jobs. You can now add a series of commands
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to the scheduled Management Central task and control the run sequence of these
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commands. In the past you could only schedule one Management Central task
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(you could schedule one job to collect inventory, then another job to install
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fixes, and another one to run commands). Now you can create one Advanced Job
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Scheduler job that does all those activities. <p>When scheduling a task,
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you have the option to create a new scheduled job, create a new scheduled
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job based on an existing scheduled job, or add the task to an existing job.
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CL commands can also be added to Management Central scheduled tasks. For instance,
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to delay the job between tasks you can use the Delay Job (<span class="cmdname">DLYJOB</span>)
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command. </p>
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<p>Tasks are processed on the endpoint system that was selected
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when the task was created. However, all CL commands are processed on the Central
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system. Each task must complete before the next task or CL command in the
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list will process.</p>
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<p>After you click the <span class="uicontrol">Schedule</span> button
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for a Management Central task, the next window prompts you to
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specify whether you want to create a new job, create a new job based on another
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job, or add to an existing job.</p>
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<blockquote>The <span class="uicontrol">Command</span> field
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is located on the <span class="uicontrol">Scheduled Job Properties - General </span>window.
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(<span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">My Connections</span> > <span class="uicontrol">server</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Work Management</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Advanced Job Scheduler</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Scheduled Jobs </span> > <span class="uicontrol">Right-click a job</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Properties</span></span>)</blockquote>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<div class="p"><strong>Notification Banner control</strong><ul><li>When you distribute spooled files by using Report Distribution, you can
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now choose from a list of items and have them print in a large font on the
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banner page of the new spooled file. The default items are Job name and Spooled
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file name. You can select up to 2 banner items to print large. <blockquote>The <span class="uicontrol">Available
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banner items</span> field is located on the <span class="uicontrol">Notification Properties</span> window.
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(<span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">My Connections</span> > <span class="uicontrol">server</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Work Management</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Advanced Job Scheduler</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Right-click Notification</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Properties</span></span>)</blockquote>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<div class="p"><strong>Add send e-mail menu option on system</strong><ul><li>This new menu option allows you to use the Advanced Job Scheduler to send
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an e-mail. When you select this menu item, the New E-Mail Message window appears.
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This is the same window that appears when you click <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">My
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Connections</span> > <span class="uicontrol">server</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Work Management</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Advanced Job Scheduler</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Notifications</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Right-click E-mail</span> > <span class="uicontrol">New E-mail</span></span>.<blockquote> <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">My Connections</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Right-click
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a server</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Send e-mail via AJS</span></span></blockquote>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<div class="p"><strong>Distribute reports via the Basic Operations container</strong><ul><li>The <span class="uicontrol">Distribute Reports </span>window provides you with
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a place to manually distribute spooled files that are generated by a user
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job that is using a report distribution list. The job can be a job started
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by Advanced Job Scheduler or manually by a user. You will be prompted for
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a Report Distribution List. The Report Distribution List is a list of spooled
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files and the recipients to whom the spooled files will be delivered.<blockquote><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">My Connections</span> > <span class="uicontrol">server</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Basic
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Operations</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Jobs</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Right-click a
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job</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Distribute Reports</span></span></blockquote>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<div class="p"><strong>Availability schedule for e-mail recipients</strong><ul><li>The availability schedule is the schedule for which the recipient is available
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to receive notification messages. You can select Always available, blank
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(never available) or a schedule option that was previously defined in the <span class="uicontrol">Advanced
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Job Scheduler - Schedules </span>properties window. <blockquote>The <span class="uicontrol">Availability
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schedule</span> field is located on the <span class="uicontrol">Recipient Properties
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- Email</span> window. (<span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">My Connections</span> > <span class="uicontrol">server</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Work Management</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Advanced
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Job Scheduler</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Notifications</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Recipients</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Right-click a recipient name</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Properties</span></span>) </blockquote>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<div class="p"><strong>Work Flow Manager</strong><ul><li>The <a href="rzaksajsworkflowabout.htm#rzaksajsworkflowabout">Work
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Flow Manager</a> is a new tool that lets you define units of work that
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can consist of a combination of automated and manual steps. The units of work
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can then be scheduled or started manually. With various notification check
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points, users can be notified when steps have started, completed, did not
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run by a specific time, and exceeded the run limit. Each step may have predecessor
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and successor jobs. Predecessor jobs for a step must complete before the step
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can be automatically or manually completed. After a step has completed, successor
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jobs are set to run. It is common to specify predecessor jobs that are the
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same as the successor jobs of the previous step. This causes the step to
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wait until the jobs complete before notifying of the step's completion. <p>A
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good candidate for using the Advanced Job Scheduler Work Flow Manager is payroll
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processing. The payroll process consists of manual steps such as inputting
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time cards, validating reports, and printing and disbursing checks. The automatic
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steps can clear the batch work files, process time card input, run the payroll
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updates, and create the reports and checks.</p>
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<blockquote><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">My
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Connections</span> > <span class="uicontrol">server</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Work Management</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Advanced Job Scheduler</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Work Flow Manager</span></span> </blockquote>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<div class="p"><strong>Integrated file system Object Resource Dependency</strong><ul><li>The <span class="uicontrol">Resource Dependencies </span> window displays information
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about a specific job’s resource dependencies, including a list of dependencies,
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the requirements needed before continuing to run a job, and the time to wait
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before resetting a job, as well as allows you to add, remove, or view the
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properties of a particular resource dependency. New to V5R4 you can indicate
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if this dependency object is an integrated file system and specify the path.<blockquote><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">My Connections</span> > <span class="uicontrol">server</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Work
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Management</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Advanced Job Scheduler</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Scheduled
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Jobs</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Right Click a job</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Resource
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Dependencies</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Create a new dependency type object</span></span> </blockquote>
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</li>
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<div class="p"><strong>Page Selection for notification spool file attachments</strong><ul><li>Page Selection allows you to specify selection information based on text
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and its location within each page of a spooled file. You can specify that
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the text must exist at a specific location on each page or anywhere on the
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page. You can also subset the spooled file by selecting a page range. <blockquote>The
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Page Selection function can be found at <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">My Connections</span> > <span class="uicontrol">server</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Work Management</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Advanced
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Job Scheduler</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Notification</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Report
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Distribution List</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Right-click a list</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Properties</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Click a spooled file</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Click Properties</span></span> </blockquote>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<div class="p"><strong>Add option to not reset held jobs</strong><ul><li>Currently there is a possible performance impact when jobs that are scheduled
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to run periodically are held. Each time the scheduled date and time is reached
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for a held job, the Advanced Job Scheduler server job determines if the job
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is still held, and if so, calculates the next date and time the held job should
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run. New for V5R4, you can suppress this calculation by making sure that
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the <span class="uicontrol">Reset held jobs</span> field is unchecked. When the <span class="uicontrol">Reset
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held jobs</span> field is unchecked, the next time the date and time
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is reached for a held job, the scheduled date and time fields are cleared,
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and no further processing activity is triggered on the held job. When you
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release the job, the server then calculates the next date and time the job
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should run. Using the <span class="uicontrol">Reset held jobs</span> field applies
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to all jobs defined using the Advanced Job Scheduler. <blockquote>The <span class="uicontrol">Reset
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held jobs</span> field is located on the <span class="uicontrol">Advanced Job Scheduler
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Properties - General </span>window. (<span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">My Connections</span> > <span class="uicontrol">server</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Work Management</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Right-click
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Advanced Job Scheduler</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Properties</span></span>)</blockquote>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzaksajsmanage2.htm" title="The following information will help you manage the Advanced Job Scheduler. You first need to install the licensed program, and then read about the tasks that allow you to customize the Advanced Job Scheduler. Finally, the remainder of the tasks allow you to work with and manage this scheduler.">Schedule jobs with Advanced Job Scheduler</a></div>
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