The Company Robert Horne Group (RHG) is a leading supplier of substrates to the printing industry. These include paper, plastics and vinyl or, to put it another way, almost anything that can be printed on! The Group is headquartered in Northampton, with offices around the UK and is part of the Dutch based Buhrmann Group - the world's largest paper merchant.  They pride themselves on providing a next day service for all orders, which requires the warehouse at Northampton to be operational for twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week.  More...   SCHEDULE allows you to specify which jobs must be completed before another job is initiated, as well as to define which are to start when a current job ends. This allows conditional branching within a job set without recourse to complex application programming, and provides the ability to handle `interdependencies'. A wide variety of `if-then-else' scenarios can be specified between jobs, enabling the system manager to build in automatic error correction when a program fails. Applications can be developed into highly reliable `fault tolerant' job sets, which are ideally suited to the emerging trend for `lights out' operations and `hands off' solutions. By taking remedial action automatically when a fault occurs and re-running the jobs through to their termination, SCHEDULE eliminates the need for regular operator attendance, and makes applications effectively self-correcting.   BCKMGR allows users to create and submit backup jobs at regular intervals while designating the source disk and offline media for the job. Virtually any non backup job can be submitted as well using a list of DCL commands. The major features of BCKMGR are: Job attributes: The characteristics of a job can be designated in detail, including the number of media required, submission options, history options and access controls. In addition, the priority and status of the job may be monitored after it is submitted. Source disk assignment: The disks to be backed up can easily be assigned using a simple list of devices in MCL or DCL. These devices will be backed up when the job is executed. Target media assignment: The media to be used for a backup job may be explicitly assigned or deassigned and from that point on dedicated exclusively for that purpose. The media then belongs to the BCKMGR database. The quantity needed for the job is based on the type of media allocation and deallocation used. The three choices are CYCLE, GENERATIONS or ONCE.     How does one go about troubleshooting EnterpriseSCHEDULE problems on a Windows XP server? EnterpriseSCHEDULE is an extremely powerful Enterprise level job scheduling system on Windows platforms XP, 2000, 2003 and XP. Microsoft's push for increased security, especially on Windows XP has made certain privileged operations more difficult to troubleshoot. EnterpriseSCHEDULE assumes the user to have at least a minimal level of access to the server that they are using for job scheduling. The following troubleshooting tips can be checked if you have problems running EnterpriseSCHEDULE on Windows XP. Non privileged user must have read/write access to the log path to run jobs. By default, the log path is  More...   Does EnterpriseSCHEDULE provide a conversion tool for Crontab? Yes, EnterpriseSCHEDULE provides a Crontab conversion with version 6.2.21 and later. You can retrieve a version of the Utility from the link: ftp://ftp.i-s-e.com/ISE Tru64 UNIX Software Library/Schedule V6.1.14 Distribution - October 25, 2003/Patches/.  This will let members access the file: Schedule_cvt_crontab.ksh Installing Crontab jobs into the ISE Schedule is a simple process as follows: 1) Run the ISE Schedule Crontab convert. /schedule_library/schedule_cvt_crontab.ksh [crontab_path] [outfile] [ownership] [directory] More...

Conference Schedule We want to let all our readers know about a few of the conferences that we have committed to participate in over the next couple of  months. The Strategic Users Conference (SUN) the week of May 9 in Las Vegas is our first stop. The SUN conference is an association of Colleges and Universities that utilize the IDX Medical software systems in the administration of their health practices.  From there it is on to Orlando, from June 6 through the 10, for the Microsoft TechED conference, a very large event including many vendors and thousands of attendees.  In August we will participate in the HPWorld event in San Francisco from the 14th to the 19th, this conference is sponsored by Interex this year and then on to New Orleans and the HP Technology Forum hosted by Encompass from September 12 thru the 15.  Hopefully you will be able to join us at one of the events and view the many new features and benefits of  EnterpriseSCHEDULE  & EnterpriseBACKUP.   Partners: