On May 16, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Joel Ewing wrote:
On 05/16/2015 03:03 AM, Brian Westerman wrote:
For simple Time of Day/Day of week job and task scheduling there
is SyzAUTO/z www.SyzygyInc.com/SyzAUTOz.htm. It's quite a bit
cheaper than the products from IBM, CA, and ASG.
Brian Westerman
There are also some freebies from cbttape.org for initiating console
commands, STCs, or jobs at some future time. This is the easy part of
automated scheduling.
The hard part is reliably monitoring success/failure of individual
jobs
in job streams of related production jobs and handling job restarts
after failures have occurred. A small number of Operators can
reliably
oversee thousands of production jobs per day with CA, ASG, or similar
scheduling products that provide the capability to perform routine
production job tracking and provide support for the occasional job
restart to recover from inevitable failures.
I can't conceive of trying to reliably run a production z/OS system
with
even a few hundred scheduled jobs per day without having such tools in
place.
Joel:
I concur with you. At one place I was at UCC7 was used quite
successful for scheduling several hundred job a night. Disclaimer
here I have no knowledge of the product other than install &
Maintenance. I do remember one distinct run in I had with UCC11 and
that it did not support SWA above the line. I got into a
"discussion" (rather loud one) I was told afterwards with the people.
I got so mad that I went in and fixed the source myself. It was a
minor fix. After a week or two with calling in daily for a fix. I
told them that I fixed their source myself and damned if I was going
to share it with them and they begged me for it. I told them if they
would give us UCC11 for one year I would. Then I got the salesman
calling me asking me for the fix. I finally told them to stuffit.
They were holding me up on a CBPDO install. My boss was mildly amused.
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