RE: User Job Scheduler

This would not be too hard to write yourself.  What you need is a file to
hold the user scheduled jobs.  Use the user id from the program status DS
and only list the users entries.  A server program wakes up and reads the
file submitting all the jobs that qualify.  If the server program sleeps at
a data queue, a file trigger can signal the server that an update has happed
and the server check for the next job to run then waits till then or the
next queue entry.  A couple of weeks of design and not much programming can
get something going.  

Christopher K. Bipes     mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst   mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.         http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive    Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928 Fax: 707 586-1884

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here.
Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@fwi.com]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 1:50 PM
To: Midrange Mailing List
Subject: User Job Scheduler


One of the things our users use OfficeVision for is query scheduling. 
What I mean by that is, they can schedule queries to run automatically
either daily, weekly, monthly, etc. by doing an AJ ("Add Job") or AJM
("Add Job Multiple") into their OfficeVision calendar.  Each user
schedules his/her own with no involvement from MIS, and no one has
access to anyone elses.  This has worked very well for us.

With the impending death of OfficeVision, I am looking for another
solution.  I expect we will use Domino and Notes to replace the majority
of OfficeVision, but recurring AS/400 job scheduling by user is not part
of Domino/Notes.  I checked into the Advanced Job Scheduler for the
AS/400, but the capabilities I want (each user controls his/her own
schedule and no one elses) is not there, or so I was told.  Multiple
schedules _are_ there, but access restriction was a problem.

Does anyone know of a solution that's out there?  I'm not looking for
fullblown automation scheduling like ROBOT, just a way for users to
maintain there own "calendar" of jobs.

Thanks.

-- 
-Jeff
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