...in all fairness, TWS (initially OPC, now IWS), provides all the support and solutioning as mentioned by Mark in his email. One of the major benefits of IWS (and this is just one of many) is that being an IBM product, it has the most prolific set of interfaces to the zOS environment including IBM tools/utilities and virtually all other environmentss that have some interaction with the batch environment. This also applies to 3rd party vendor tools that have some impact on JCL and/or scheduling. Lastly, IBM has an active process that can automatically (using tools) convert non-IWS schedulers to IWS. I have been in the JCL and scheduler environment since 1982 and have supported (in either technical pre-sales, actual use of, or conversion projects specific to scheduling software) and believe that IWS is the product leader in automated scheduling. Disclaimer, I used to work at ASG and am currently with IBM. Regards, Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Mark Jacobs <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, Jan 23, 2021 10:32 am Subject: Re: TWS replacements
ASG-Zeke is an automated job scheduler that dynamically schedules and dispatches events, and monitors every aspect of your job schedule. ASG-Zeke provides wide ranging functionality, including system command scheduling, automatic variable calculation and substitution, step-level condition code validation, workload balancing, schedule forecasting and simulation, SAF security, optional SMP/E support, simultaneous support for multiple JCL libraries, electronic vaulting capabilities, pre-built calendars, and other utilities. When you add ASG’s cross-platform agent(s), scheduling is extended to all the major platforms, including Windows, Linux, UNIX, OS/400. Disclaimer. I work for ASG Technologies. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected] ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, January 23rd, 2021 at 11:14 AM, IBM user <[email protected]> wrote: > What are some of the less-expensive IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler TWS (IWS) > replacements that are available? > > Solution needs to manage mainframe and remote Windows/Linux workloads. > > IBM User > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
