Example of a Stand-alone Service Schedule

This example of a stand-alone service schedule shows a weekly scheduled task and a monthly scheduled task.

This example consists of two scheduling activities:

  • Scheduling a File System adapter one day each week at a specific time. (Weekly schedule)
  • Scheduling a IBM® Sterling Gentran:Server® Windows adapter one day a month at a specific time. (Monthly schedule)

By analyzing your past processing trends, you determine you have a file system that you must collect data from every week, and you also need to collect information from a rarely used file system one time a month from which you create a report for your manager.

Using the analysis of your processing volumes and peak times, and the importance of both of these processes, you determine that you can schedule both services during non-peak hours:

  • File System adapter 1 (weekly) – 07:00 a.m. each Monday
  • File System adapter 2 (monthly) – 06:00 a.m. LDOM (last day of month)

The following table describes the schedule parameters you set for the File System adapters:

File System adapter 1
Service to schedule: File System adapter

Timer or Clock: Clock (Weekly)

System: node1

Execution Day: Every Monday

Scheduled Time(s): 07:00 a.m.

Excluded Time(s): None

Excluded Dates: None

At startup: No

Run As User: Admin

File System adapter 2
Service to schedule: File System adapter

Timer or Clock: Clock (Monthly))

System: node1

Execution Day: LDOM (last day of the month)

Scheduled Time(s): 06:00 a.m.

Excluded Time(s): None

Excluded Dates: None

At startup: No

Run As User: Admin

This figure shows the services running on schedule and the data being collected from the file systems:

Services running on schedule
  1. Each Monday at 07:00 a.m. the File System adapter 1 runs in Sterling B2B Integrator and checks File System 1 for data.
  2. Data in File System 1 is collected and brought into Sterling B2B Integrator for use by the appropriate business process or service.
  3. At 06:00 a.m. on the last day of each month, the File System adapter 2 service runs in Sterling B2B Integrator and checks File System 2 for data.
  4. Data in File System 2 is collected and brought into Sterling B2B Integrator for use by the appropriate business process or service, so that you can create the report for your manager.