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EnterpriseSCHEDULE helps United Natural Food's operations stay healthy

United Natural Foods is the largest publicly traded wholesale distributor to the natural and organic foods industry. Carrying more than 32,000 SKUs, the company supplies over 14,000 customers nationwide and services a wide variety of retail formats, including super natural chains, independent natural product retailers and conventional supermarkets.

Providing information systems support to such a massive operation can be pretty taxing on a staff but according to Ron Donohue of UNF, it is a lot easier using EnterpriseSCHEDULE from ISE. When they came to ISE for a solution to their OpenVMS and Windows batch scheduling woes, UNF had been summarily dissatisfied with the scheduling product they were using. With a total of about 600 jobs running on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis, the previous scheduler was unreliable and often ran unscheduled processes. More...



ISE's 2004 conference schedule

ISE will be exhibiting the multiple platforms of EnterpriseSCHEDULE and EnterpriseBACKUP at numerous conferences during 2004. If you have plan to attend the HP Interex conference in Munich on May 3 - 6, or MicroSoft's TechEd in San Diego on May 24 - 27 or the HPWorld 2004 conference in Chicago from August 17 - 19, please make plans to visit us.  Better yet, give us a call so we can schedule a specific time to meet with you and identify your requirements.

 

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EnterpriseSCHEDULE

EnterpriseSCHEDULE provides an extensive set of commands and tools that let you perform advanced scheduling including job connections, resource availability and programmable variable testing. For example, you can base a job's submission on the completion of another job, the availability of a file or the condition of a variable. These techniques are easy to master, through the handy interface that gives you constant access to information about your job's progress.

 

EnterpriseBACKUP

MEDIA includes many features designed to simplify and automate all aspects of media management. One of the features is listed below:

A detached server process...

    Device control: The Librarian uses a detached server process to monitor and control the allocation of removable tape and disk drives. Only those drives listed in the controlling parameter file will be affected. Drives are allocated on a least recently used basis. Independent jobs using the same medium will automatically execute without any OPERATOR assistance to remount the medium.

    Error logging: The server process monitors the error activity on the system. Any errors that are associated with a known medium will be added into the error counter kept for that medium. This error count can be very useful in determining when a particular medium should be replaced or re-certified.

    Device allocation control: In many cases, it is desirable to force all removable drive allocations to be processed by the librarian system. This can be done by requesting the server process to allocate all the defined drives and only turning them over to proper and validated requests via the librarian. This will disable the VMS ALLOCATE command and only allow the MEDIA ALLOCATE command.

 

 

Schedule Tooltips

 

 

When configuring Schedule Servers in a cluster, how fault tolerant are the systems and what is the fail over procedure between clustered Schedule Servers?

It is important to review four key features that define Cluster Technology: a Shared Database, a Common Lock Resource Manager, Server to Server automatic fail over, and a Centralized Cluster Management for all members. OpenVMS is the pioneer and leader in this technology. OpenVMS built all four of these features into the operating system. Applications like EnterpriseSCHEDULE need to be written to be cluster aware and cluster pro-active. In OpenVMS, two or more servers can be clustered together to share resources and provide fault tolerance for each other. In the case of EnterpriseSCHEDULE on OpenVMS, if a node fails, the surviving nodes are able to continue processing the failed node's workload and shift the location of the running of jobs.  More...

When customizing the notices dialog for sending emails on the completion of a job, how do I change an email recipient to a list of recipients? And how do I append the Job's log file into the email?

There are standard event notifications produced by schedule and you can simply set the appropriate event notification to qualify for any standard event like "Job Started", "Job Failed", and "Job Completed". You can then fill in the delivery format of the event be it broadcast or email. Example:

Schedule mod /noti:completed=(sting@I-s-e.com,MAIL) my_job

However, sometimes you need to expand upon these and send to a list of  users and you need to append the current job's log to the email.

Within the Job's Notices file you can add more functionality by choosing any one of the many keywords. For sending to a list 
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