ORSYP Forum Tutorials Dollar Universe Scheduling sequencing November

ORSYP Forum Tutorials: Dollar Universe - Scheduling & sequencing November 2008 © Copyright ORSYP 2008

Job scheduler functions Scheduling Sequencing Defined frequency or on demand Pre-requisites to entitle a job to run Batch jobs Submitting Monitoring To the OS directly or via a Queue Manager From the Application Server or a Console, the Web, command line or … Univiewer © Copyright ORSYP - 2008 1

Sequencing § Defining the job pre-requisites (in the Uproc) § § Dependency conditions on jobs (ex: job A must have completed and B failed for the current job to run) Non simultaneity conditions on jobs and incompatibilities (ex: job C must not be running) File Resources (ex: file ‘abcd’ in directory ‘ 1234’ must be present) Logical Resources (quotas / tokens) © Copyright ORSYP - 2008 2

Scheduling § Defining the job frequency (in the Task) § § Through Scheduling Rules (ex: every Friday, 1 st day of the month…) Through a start date/time and a cycle (as of V 5. 3) Through specific dates (explicit dates) Through a trigger (uxordre command, jobs “on demand”) © Copyright ORSYP - 2008 3

Scheduling & sequencing To schedule jobs and that they run in the order you want you need to: § Define the Uprocs and their pre-requisites (conditions) ü This will ensure that they run in the right order ü But this will not schedule them! § Define the Tasks (and Rules) on the Uprocs (or Sessions naturally) ü This will ensure that they are scheduled as desired ü But this will not imply they will execute as they will only kick off if their pre-requisites are satisfied! © Copyright ORSYP - 2008 4

Scheduling & sequencing § Scheduling is handled by the Dollar Universe Calculator engine § Sequencing is handled by the Dollar Universe Launcher engine Tasks Launcher Calculator Jobs Condition Check + Submission + Completion © Copyright ORSYP - 2008 5