Integrating scheduler applications
You can integrate scheduler applications with Product Master so that the scheduler applications can schedule jobs to run from the command line.
Product Master provides a template shell script that you modify to define jobs that you want to schedule to run in various scheduler applications.
To allow a scheduler application access to run jobs:
- Identify the Product Master jobs that are scheduled by an external scheduler. For example, you might have several Product Master status reports that must be produced as part of a monthly review. Or you might automate running an Product Master import as part of an external scheduled delta refresh into Product Master.
- Enable access to the Product Master code.
To schedule a Product Master job, the scheduler must be authorized to the local Product Master code. In most cases, you must set up a scheduler-specific UNIX user that has the same permissions and authorizations as the Product Master user. In addition, this user profile might need to set up the correct Product Master environment.
- Create the scripts. See Creating the scripts for external scheduling.
- Run the job. You can run the job from a command line, or if you use Tivoli Workload Scheduler, you can use the Tivoli Workload Scheduler user interface to schedule and run the job. For
more information, see
- Running an external scheduler job from the command line
- Before you can run an external scheduler job from the command-line interface:
- Enable access to the product code.
- Create the scripts for external scheduling. See Creating the scripts for external scheduling.
- Running a job from the Tivoli Workload Scheduler interface
- For more information, see Running a job from the Tivoli Workload Scheduler interface.
For information about how to work with jobs inside of Product Master, see Creating and scheduling jobs.