We've been scheduling with Orsyp's $U for some years now. The product is ported for linux s390x & i386, z/OS, windows and some other *nix platforms. We use it also to control our VSE batch jobs; we did a small interface with VSE Connector to be able to do that from a zLinux node. $U has a purely distributed structure: no superb controlling node telling agents what to do. Just equal nodes talking to each other following all the same rules. (Some call that democracy :) For us, $U provides a platform to design and run complex business processes in multiple, different servers. It virtualizes servers' resources into a common pool for implementing business processes. Kind of. Its latest design and monitoring tool, Univiewer, is a huge improvement to the old Console which was something like Windows in year 1990.
We've had some quality issues (some call them "bugs"), and a few features one would expect to see are missing or are poorly designed. But its core purpose serves us quite well so far. Yet, I can't say if it is better or worse than other products. It's the only one I know properly. HTH, Juha Vuori Lindorff, Finland On 04/23/2013 03:17 PM, John Campbell wrote:
If you wanna be appalled, the organization here-- which has had some very very negative reactions to IBM after they bumped the price of Informix into the stratosphere-- is looking at ORSYP (part of $ Universe...) (shakes head) NOW I'd love to take a closer look at the FOSSified (rather than FOSSilized) batch management system to perform an ORSNYP. -soup -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; Regardless of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail because, somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
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