Total control of your job scheduling
- Jobs can be run at specific intervals, determined by time and date.
- Jobs are run according to calendars, which can be as complex or as simple as required.
- Any number of calendars can be created.
- Calendars can be tailored to reflect local variations, such as working and non-working or holiday days, and fiscal period ends.
- Calendars can be created within minutes and global changes in scheduling achieved at a keystroke.
- 'Virtual' calendars can be created to handle complex or obscure scheduling needs, such as those for subsidiary companies, for individual departments or for special period ends.
- Any attribute associated with batch processing, including date variables, can be specified for jobs defined to AUTOMON® for iSchedule v100.
- Users can string together series of commands, rather than having to write and compile CL programs.
- LDA settings, command(s) to execute, job descriptions and queues to be used can be variable based on date - enabling jobs to be scheduled months or years ahead.
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Advanced job conditioning
AUTOMON® for iSchedule v100 can make job submission subject to a number of criteria including:
- The status of other jobs on any connected processor, e.g. active, normal or abnormal completion.
- The allocation or existence of a specific object(s), e.g. the presence of records in a database file.
- A data area containing a specific entry.
- The status of a communications line or job queue.
- The arrival of network or spool files.
- The status of a subsystem or its contents.
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Schedule your restricted tasks automatically
- Restricted state tasks, such as SAVSYS and reclaim storage, can be scheduled by
- AUTOMON® for iSchedule v100, eliminating the need for additional shift cover.
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Manage jobs submitted by users
- Jobs generated automatically by other applications, and for which precise names are not known, can be brought under the control of AUTOMON® for iSchedule v100. Character patterns or job masks can be specified; AUTOMON® for iSchedule v100 will automatically intercept any job which fits the job mask and hold it on a job queue. The job will be released when the time associated with the job mask is reached.
- Ad hoc, unscheduled batch jobs can be adopted by AUTOMON® for iSchedule v100 and scheduling applied to them. Job conditions and tests can be added to control when and how this work is processed. This ensures that randomly submitted user jobs do not interfere with high priority scheduled work.
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Reduce downtime with flexible error recovery
- Extensive error recovery facilities can be defined for any job. Wait time and retry intervals can be specified, and recovery job strings processed if required.
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Maximum control of your batch work
AUTOMON® for iSchedule v100 puts you in control of all batch processing:
- Powerful on-line job status enquiries show which jobs are being executed now.
- Detailed audit trails and runtime logs show what has happened.
- Extensive future schedule enquiries show what will be happening.
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