Re: User Job Scheduler

We use the regular job scheduler for BPCS tasks & the state of the art is you 
have to be a programmer with plenty of time on your hands to put just one 
BPCS task there ... the problem is 99% with BPCS and 1% with the IBM job 
scheduler, so if you are on some other packaged software, you might take a 
look at GO CMDSCDE to judge whether this is acceptable for your users ... 
remember that the library list of the user who puts something on the IBM 
scheduler is totally missing at the time that the job launches.

regarding
> the capabilities I want (each user controls his/her own
>  schedule and no one elses) is not there, or so I was told. 

you may have been told wrong
if your users are not master security officers, they cannot change another 
user's scheduled criteria, but in our situation, which may be due to all 
users being in a single BPCS user group, we are able to launch each others's 
stuff on demand

>  From:    jlcrosby@fwi.com (Jeff Crosby)
>  
>  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.


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