Scheduling jobs on the UNIX

[Vaughn Seward]

Christina,

We ran into this problem some years ago with some of our clients and we 
developed a system called "Job Assistance" written in PowerHouse and C that 
handles job scheduling. The original version was written on the Vax in 1988 
and was re-developed in 1989 for the HP/3000 and finally ported to HP/Unix 
in 1994. It has been progressively enhanced since then. It is currently 
being used to handle job processing for two large Alberta Government 
ministries.

The following are some of the main features:

-Comfortable,  user-friendly, PowerHouse interface.
-Table-driven definition of jobs (instead of JCL/shell coding).
-Automatic & flexible parameter passing.
-Grouped output from multiple reports to a single output device.
-Dynamic redirection of output to any system output device (e.g. printers, 
email, ftp).
-Ad-hoc User submission of jobs/reports.
-Automatic job scheduling based on date/time.
-Job/report log history.
-Saving of jobs/output to disk for later viewing/printing.
-Automated job cleanup on a schedule.

Anyone that is interested in obtaining this product can contact me at:

Vaughn Seward
Seward Consulting Ltd.
Tel: 780-702-5117
email: vaughn@sewardconsulting.com


-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu
[mailto:powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu]On Behalf Of Hasse, Christina
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:57 PM
To: 'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
Subject: PowerHouse with UNIX


Hi,

I just have a question.  This is for a customer moving from HP3000 to
HP9000.

What do you use for scheduling jobs on the UNIX machine other than Cron and
are you happy with it's capabilities?


Regards,

Christina Hasse
ADT North American Services Manager
COGNOS CORPORATION
christina.hasse@cognos.com
425 N. Martingale Road, Suite 600
Schaumburg, IL  60173
Office:  847 - 285 - 2905
Cell:  847 - 612 - 6854