Resources: Home Page Top Products Newsletters Support Contact Us Shoe Carnival uses EnterpriseSCHEDULE to put a kick in their operations Shoe Carnival is a publicly held retail footwear company with 251 stores. They are a leading retailer of brand name footwear for the entire family with a unique and fun in-store atmosphere. The open format, catchy music and friendly associates set the stage for a great time and a memorable shopping experience. The terrific product selection, great brand names and value pricing make the mix unbeatable and further distinguish Shoe Carnival from its competitors. In a conversation with Shoe Carnival's Operation Manager's J.W. Johnston and Paul Maglinger, we discussed the way EnterpriseSCHEDULE from ISE has greatly enhanced how they automate their daily operations.  With daily processing of over 3500 jobs on two ES40's running Tru64 UNIX, the scheduler is put to test constantly and J.W. and Paul feel it withstands the test. The daily operations consist of the processing of aggregate data from their many retail outlets and turning it into reports. More...   Our Newsletter, like our systems EnterpriseSCHEDULE and EnterpriseBACKUP, is a constantly enhanced item.  Many of the new additions to the solutions come directly from our customer and prospect base of clients and we wanted to take this opportunity to invite your comments on the content of our monthly publication. Please send us your preferences and thoughts concerning the Newsletter and we would certainly welcome any advice for the advancement of either the Backup or Scheduling product.     Partners:    _________________   EnterpriseSCHEDULE EnterpriseSCHEDULE has several features and benefits and one of them is that there are various ways to control text output... Distribution lists give you the ability to specify a list of standard PRINT commands (COPY or MAIL commands will also work) to distribute the various types of print files a job produces. This list is independent of the actual job commands and it can readily be changed without affecting the logic of the job itself. Notification messages can be sent through electronic mail or broadcast messages as jobs progress through the system. For each job you can indicate which users are to be notified when a job reaches a specific state (submitted, started, delayed, completed or failed). You can even define you own messages to be included in the notification.   EnterpriseBACKUP One of the key features built in to EnterpriseBACKUP is the Report Writer. The Report writer generates output that is suitable for printing, with page breaks and column headings. The Report Writer extracts data from various data files and generates output that is suitable for printing. The report is generated in four steps: Examine the report definition. Collect the applicable data. Sort the collected data in the correct order. Format and output the sorted data. Over 220 predefined report definitions are included, providing a wide variety of possible examples. All the report definitions are contained in a library file (with extension .CLB). These provided reports can be copied, edited and modified as needed to suit your immediate requirements. Each report definition contains a combination of the following five statements: REPORT, SELECT, PRINT, SORT and END. The REPORT statement indicates the beginning of a report and controls where the data is taken from and where the output is written. The SELECT statement controls what range of source data is used to generate the report. The PRINT statement controls what columns are printed and in what format. The SORT statement controls the order of printing for the selected data. The END statement terminates the report definition and initiates all the report generation activity.     Schedule Tooltip     My boss has given me the responsibility of tracking the corporate scheduled jobs and when the jobs were run. Does ISE have any tools for organizing this information? EnterpriseSCHEDULE has a built in report writer that allows you to query and report on records within the schedule control database and within the schedule history database. In fact, 80 standard reports are supplied that are easily viewed with the commands: Schedule dir/rep [report] or Schedule lsrep /report/ Schedule type/rep xyz_report or Schedule more -rep xyz_report ISE supplied reports reside in the directory "report" and the naming convention SCH_* is used for control data and SCHH_* is used for history data. It is recommended you follow the naming convention for reports that are user created. However you can put reports in any directory.  More...