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 C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
