tis 2020-12-22 klockan 17:35 -0600 skrev John McKown: > 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.
UNIX had early on cron which runs specific jobs regularly at predetermined times while at (atd) is more like a one of JCL batch job. uucp used cron (messages transfered at fixed times.) LINUX has the same functionality. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
