On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 5:49 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron > > I use CRON a fair amount on Linux at home. And on z/OS at work, for "personal scheduling". And there's the equivalent "Windows Task Scheduler" on Windows. But I wonder if any business uses them for things that we use CA-7 for. IIRC, CA had a Windows product where you'd put an "agent" on a Windows system and CA-7 could schedule work there. We actually tried to use it. But it never caught on in the Windows world at my company. There is this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/install-windows/configure-the-unattended-execution-account-ssrs-configuration-manager?view=sql-server-ver15 But I'm getting too far off topic. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of John McKown [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 6:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: JCL divergence > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 5:26 PM Gibney, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Windows....Job...Huh > > > > Right. I am so ignorant, perhaps the Windows (and Linux?) world doesn't > even have any unattended scheduled activities. I know that there is a > "Windows Scheduler" that can run a batch file (MSDOS .bat) automatically at > a given time or when a particular user does a "log on" (perhaps akin to a > TSO logon proc). > > If the above is true (no automated unattended work), I wonder how companies > do {month,quarter,year}-end processing to generate reports to send to > appropriate governmental bodies. Or even, as in my employer, to > policyholders. > > > > > > > > Hum, how do the Windows experts "restart" a "job" that fails? I really > > > don't now. > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
