An advanced Enterprise Job Scheduler designed to automate intricate job scheduling tasks across any mid-range platform, database and application. This powerful portable batch system offers centralized job scheduling management and remote control capabilities, capable of streamlining all scheduling processes across your entire organization worldwide. The Enterprise Job Scheduler supports native installation in every midrange environment, including IBM i (iSeries AS400), Windows, Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris environments - ensuring optimal throughput, accuracy and efficiency.
The Enterprise Job Scheduler serves as a portable batch system which can be used for single platform use cases, such as an IBM i job scheduler, offering a compelling alternative to replace Fortra’s Robot job scheduling software. The Enterprise Job Scheduler can replace all Robot Job Scheduler features, while also adding many other portable batch system features for the IBM i platform, such as keyboard stroke and screen capture, and integration with common applications such as JD Edwards, MAPICS, Jack Henry, IBS, BPCS, BASIS and others.
Cost-efficiency is a significant advantage of the Enterprise Job Scheduler, being priced significantly less than Fortra’s Robot job scheduler. The Enterprise Job Scheduler licensing permits usage across unlimited LPARs without any additional charges, ensuring that your job scheduling tasks are cost-effective and unrestricted. If your IT departments are frustrated with the status quo, your organization should consider switching its portable batch system to save between 50-200% in maintenance costs per year. However there are many more reasons to switch job scheduler software then just price. The Enterprise Job Scheduler is also recognized as the most advanced job scheduling software for the IBM i platform today, and migrating existing jobs scheduled from Fortra Robot job scheduler or the IBM i job scheduler is as simple as exporting and importing job scheduler entries into a spreadsheet using our provided tool.
The Enterprise Job Scheduler excels in flexibility and reliability, guaranteeing all jobs are executed on time and in the correct sequence, while providing real-time visibility into job processes across all platforms and every division and business unit. Jobs can be scheduled using calendars, intervals or can be triggered by other jobs and events that meet specified criteria of which can be jobs and events that occur on a different platform and in an entirely different location. At any point in the job flow, dependent events can trigger cascading events on the local or remote servers, as well as be reactive to the outcome based on condition variables on the local or remote servers, and can be triggered based on calendars and intervals. Dependent jobs being triggered can also utilize complex variables to determine if specific conditions have been met before starting. Furthermore, any event in the job chain can trigger real-time alerts and perform screen capture. There is no job scheduling process that is too hard or complex that cannot be accomplished with the Enterprise Job Schduler.
An unlimited number of user defined calendars is supported, as well as the most command calendar types, including Gregorian, Julian 13@4 for 13 week quarters of 4, 4 and 5 week months. Many substitution variables can be used in scripts to trigger a job based on calculations, execution time or user defined, and variables can be embedded with other variables allowing a lot of flexibility to control execution and scheduling a job.
Built-in High Availability features ensure environments are 100% protected with mirrored failover system. As an example for IBM i shops, a role swap of 3,000 scheduled jobs can occur in under 1 minute. Built-in integrity check features display replicated scheduled jobs in real-time showing the comparison of source and target, and integrity check can email a PDF report showing High Availability status. The scheduler run history can be viewed and restored onto any platform or device, minimizing the stress for stressful moments. Portable batch system
Regardless of the platforms, databases or applications the Enterprise Job Scheduler manages, the same GUI and Web interface are used to configure, view and manage all jobs throughout the entire organization. For IBM i, if you prefer a native 5250 green screen interface, you may use the Enterprise Job Scheduler’s commands and menu system for administration. Every scheduled job can be monitored and managed from any web-enabled device and from anywhere in the world, allowing administrators complete visibility and control of every process of every business division, application and server regardless of location. Intuitive and simple is what the Enterprise Job Scheduler delivers with simple point and click, plus drag and drop administration features and customizable color coding and user defined icons. As the status and state of jobs change, so do the colors of the text and background of the display for emphasizing severities at a glance. The administration interface even includes Undo and Un-Delete options that quickly and effortlessly fix mistakes.
Simple and intuitive is the theme. Administrators can easily view current state and progress of jobs and show estimated time of completion and average of previous executions. Predefined reports ready to run, include run sheets that describe every job’s run history, real-time statistics and status of current jobs, and Gannt charts that make forecasting and planning of new jobs effortless. The Flight Recorder feature is ideal for identifying execution window gaps in an environment for adding new job schedules, and the Job Predictor can be used to help assess end times for planning to add new jobs. Any report can be distributed as an email to the appropriate group, and reports can be archived in PDF or Excel format. Regulatory and compliance audit reports are also included.
Job Groups allow multiple tasks to run as a stream of jobs that can be executed sequentially with intra dependencies or completion status or concurrently where all jobs are submitted simultaneously, and Job Groups can include a mix of concurrent and sequential jobs.
Security of users can be managed by LDAP, and granular controls that determine which users access environments, and their associated permissions, such as limiting users to view only, ability to add, ability to edit, ability to delete and ability to force execution. You can even reverse job changes and undo deletions that do not perform as planned. Real-time alerts are sent automatically when problems occur and escalated to the appropriate individuals based on shifts. All adds, deletes and changes are audited and show a before and after image, of which reports can be distributed in a PDF format. Job flows are documented in great detail, archived, and can distribute reports for forecasting.
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