A Monthly Newsletter from ISE Inc
Summer 2009
 
ISE will be exhibiting at Innovate 2009 - A Fiserv Client Conference in Nashville

Look for us at Innovate 2009. ISE will be exhibiting EnterpriseSCHEDULE, the Automated Batch Job Scheduling software used by financial institutions across the US. Come by our booth for a demo and discussion of how EnterpriseSCHEDULE can automate your operations.

EnterpriseSCHEDULE is an enterprise-wide job-scheduling solution that manages the flow of batch processes across OpenVMS and Windows for scores of Fiserv based Credit Unions across the US.  EnterpriseSCHEDULE uses nearly identical job data descriptions for every system and enables job scheduling, modification and monitoring from a Windows or Web-based client.


This Month's Tool Tip

How to halt initiates after a Suppressed Run job

SUMMARY

This article describes how keep jobs from being initiated after a job run that is suppressed using resource statements

MORE INFORMATION

EnterpriseSCHEDULE allows the suppression of job runs based on the outcome of  resources. For instance if you want to suppress job runs after 10:00 PM you can add the following resource statement to a job”

If $Time .gt. 1000 then suppress_run

In this case, if the job was run after 10:00 PM, the job would run, it’s commands would be suppressed and it would run any initiates that followed.

In some cases, a user may want to halt initiates after a job is suppressed. This is addressed in this FAQ.

STOPPING INITIATES AFTER A SUPPRESSED RUN

Since jobs that are suppressed exit with a specific status code, we can put a condition on all initiates after the potential suppressed runs to keep the initiate from taking place. This condition essentially says that if the initiating job does not exit with a suppressed run status, initiate the next job.

In order to make an initiate conditional on the suppressed_run status of the job,

  1. Select the initiate from the Connections tab on the initiating job's property page.
  2. Click the Edit button.
  3. When the initiate dialog comes up, click More.
  4. Add the following condition.




This will prevent job25 from being initiated if job14 is suppressed.

For the complete FAQ go to: FAQ 326.

 

EnterpriseSCHEDULE

EnterpriseSCHEDULE is the only complete cross platform solution for all the job scheduling and workflow needs of your enterprise. Now your datacenter can free itself of the manual processing of a variety of tasks that dominate your daily routine. Using the software, you can gain control of the operations that are most cumbersome and time consuming to manage, from order and report processing to data warehousing.

EnterpriseSCHEDULE’s graphic workflow layouts and job monitoring tools let you plan, control and monitor your job activity from an easy to use Windows based interface. Integrating simple implementation of workflow with the availability of advanced capabilities lets all levels of users take advantage of the powerful features. With sophisticated scheduling tools like advanced job dependencies, job flow based on the value of interactive resource variables, workgroup processing and data replication and event and time based job initiation, EnterpriseSCHEDULE is the best job scheduler available for OpenVMS, Windows, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Tru64 UNIX.

EnterpriseBACKUP

Besides OpenVMS system backup, EnterpriseBACKUP also provides and online media database. The MEDIA database is accessible on-line, allowing you to find any particular medium and what files it contains at any time, without having to mount each medium or rely on a manually updated information system. The database consists of information about every tape and removable disk or other storage device in the library. Whenever a medium is modified, the on-line information is automatically updated to reflect the new contents. There are two types of informational files about media: The header information file contains information about each medium, tape type, length, density, format, disk size, protection, initialization and availability status.

The contents information file is an optional on-line file that lists the contents of each medium, all of the files written on the medium and information about each file (creation date, version number, size). It is necessary to include a file specification in the DIRECTORY command to access the contents information file. Both header and contents information files can be accessed using the MEDIA command DIRECTORY.

 

Ask us about our scheduling solutions for the following applications:

HP Operations Manager
(formerly OpenView)

GE Centricity
(formerly IDX Flowcast)

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