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.
A good suggestion. Joel Ewing wrote: >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. Indeed. Also referring to those timed MVS commands and checking whether a thing is running or not before issuing commands. I have used some of them, before finally writing my own 'Commander' - timed z/OS command issuer used during IPL and shutdowns. >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. Coming back to the same story as with Scott Barry. You need a full need analysis what you need for your scheduling. You need things like: Events, Triggers, condition-codes, automatic JCL+source translation (variable substation), calendars of various types each with their own deadlines, etc. plus security to keep the users out of each other schedules, jobs and output. Things like this can be done by automation (I am withholding the name of our automation software - I am not a marketer!), //SMF DD DSN=SMF.A.YEAR.MONTH translated to //SMF DD DSN=SMF.A201505 or in an ICETOOL input for some report Heading: "Violations for YEAR/MONTH/DAY" translated to "Violations for 2015/05/15" Of course YMMV. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
