IBM Support

IBM Advanced Job Scheduler for i

General Page

IBM Advanced Job Scheduler for i is a job scheduling system designed to allow unattended operations, automate operator functions, and control report distribution

job scheduler for ibm i,job scheduler,advanced job scheduler,advanced job scheduler for ibm i,scheduler for ibm i.

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

Find answers quickly in official IBM product documentation.

  • 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

Find answers quickly in official IBM product documentation.

  • 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

Find answers quickly in official IBM product documentation.

  • 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

[{"Product":{"code":"SWG60","label":"IBM i"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Component":"--","Platform":[{"code":"PF012","label":"IBM i"}],"Version":"Version Independent","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB57","label":"Power"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
12 July 2023

UID

isg3T1027570