IBM AS/400e

IBM Licensed Programs: Systems Management Products
630 AS/400e System Handbook
IBM Advanced Job Scheduler for AS/400 V4R4, 5769-JS1
IBM Advanced Job Scheduler for AS/400 is a part of the IBM SystemView family of offerings.
It facilitates unattended operations, which can reduce the cost of ownership and help improve
efficiency and accuracy in managing batch applications. It provides a highly comprehensive,
full-function job scheduler and report distribution system on the AS/400 system, enhanced
with graphical user interface capabilities.
Leading-edge scheduling functions include:
• Automation
• Batch Job Stream Management
• Forward Planning and Production Forecasting
• Full Calendaring of Operations
• Dependency Scheduling
Overall this allows any batch-capable function to be scheduled on a single AS/400 system or
across a network, allowing complete user control of how, when, and where a job is submitted.
Job Scheduler is enhanced in V4R4 with the following functions:
• A full integration with Operations Navigator and specifically the Management Central
functions that are part of Operations Navigator. The user interface provides a full
graphical user interface and inter-operates with users choosing to continue to use the
existing interfaces. The graphical interface provides:
– An easy-to-use way to define and control batch job operations based on successor or
predecessor jobs
– A full set of multiple calendars
– Systems and resource conditions
• V4R4 Management Central added a number of capabilities that can be scheduled
using the Advanced Job Scheduler. These include cross-system group functions such
as:
– PTF distribution and management
– Hardware, software, and PTF inventory collections
– Distribution of objects and files
– Schedule remote operations
Once installed, the user interface is seamless between Management Central and the
Advanced Job Scheduler.
You can easily manage your job automation across multiple systems running the
Advanced Job Scheduler. For example, with the Advanced Job Scheduler on multiple
systems, you can condition jobs on one system to only start when a job on another
system is successful or ends in error. In addition to the previously supported SNA network