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The IBM Advanced Job Scheduler for i is a highly comprehensive, full-functional job scheduler and report distribution product on IBM i systems. This Licensed Program Product (5770-JS1) facilitates your unattended operations, which can reduce your cost of ownership, and helps improve efficiency and accuracy in managing your batch applications.
- Automation
- Batch Job Stream Management
- Work Flow Management
- Report Distribution
- Forward Planning and Production Forecasting
- Full Calendar of Operations, including scheduling, holiday, and fiscal calendars
- Dependency Scheduling
- Dynamic user defined and system parameters
- Multiple scheduling environments (Production, Test, Backup, etc.)
- E-mail notification
- Send entire spooled file or specific pages of spooled file via e-mail
- Network jobs
- Wireless capabilities
- Browser interface
These functions are aimed at simplifying your business, from automating control of your batch jobs to integrating with existing IBM Navigator for i function. Essentially, any batch-capable function can now be scheduled. For example, backups can be scheduled and maintained by combining IBM Advanced Job Scheduler for i with Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS).
Features
Automated job scheduling
- Flexibility in scheduling jobs
- Unattended (or attended) job processing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with total compliance to the schedules you set
- Natural extension of the OS/400, i5/OS and IBM i operating systems
- Complete control of how, when, and where a job is submitted
- Extensive job dependencies such as objects (existence of a file or records within a physical file), the activity or inactivity of other jobs, or the status of a line, controller, or subsystem
- Complete calendaring functions, including fiscal and holiday calendars
- Multiple runs per day at set times or in set intervals.
- Status notification
- Report distribution and management
Work Flow Manager
- Manual and automatic processes are integrated into single easily managed work flow
- Numerous ways to notify the progress of the work flow
- Eliminates confusion between IT and non-IT personnel
- Can be scheduled or manually started
- Allows users to control the flow
System-wide job controls
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- System-wide defaults may be used when entering job-specific information
- Working days of the week
- Default calendars
- Default applications
System and user-defined parameters
- Current date, submission date, previous date, and current time can be passed into application programs
- User-defined parameter values can be created, changed, and passed into application programs
Workload/history forecasting
- Forecasts all scheduled jobs to be run next week, next month, or next day
- Optimize production requirements
- Historical tracking and logging of all Advanced Job Scheduler activity
Network management
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- Jobs can be set up on any IBM i in the network to run on any other IBM i in the network
- Provides complete job history of the job on the submitting system
- Group and dependent jobs can be submitted through the network
- Routing, monitoring, and controlling of all output reports generated by Advanced Job Scheduler or i operating systems
- Spooled file distribution to multiple output queues or to remote systems with optional banner pages
- Spooled output can be duplicated or sent to any user on the IBM i network
Security
- Existing IBM i security may be utilized within Advanced Job Scheduler
- Specify who in your organization has authority to set up or change information about scheduled jobs
- Authority can be specified for either the individual functions of Advanced Job Scheduler or for specific jobs
Graphical user interface and Web interface
- Point and click capabilities when scheduling a job
- Manage jobs
- Maintain dependencies
- Track scheduler activity and log information
Other key features
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- Email capabilities
- Use multiple scheduling environments to create your own test and backup strategies
- Manage scheduled jobs wirelessly from your own PDA or internet-capable cell phone
- Multiple commands per job
- Definition for job LDA (Local Data Area)
- Console monitor to run jobs in restricted state
- Check maximum run time for each job
- Interface directly to a message-based third-party paging system
- Submission and monitoring of System/36 procedures
- Provisions for full online documentation of each job
- Extensive cursor-sensitive help text on all displays
Resources
Additional information
Documentation
- Advanced Job Scheduler (451KB)
- Redbook: IBM Systems Director Navigator for i
- IBM Advanced Job Scheduler for Wireless (544KB)
- Knowledge Center
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