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  3. January 2003

RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Joe Pluta wrote:

> > Well, that batch problem is something we have on the AS/400 too.  When we
> > run our end of day processing, no one can be logged into the
> > system because if any records are open the cycle won't run.
>
> Batch jobs colliding with online users is just a fact of data processing
> life.  The point is that on the AS/400, you can schedule jobs to be run
> unattended when nobody is on the machine.

And this ability (to schedule jobs to be run unattended when nobody is on
the machine) is not unique to the AS/400.

James Rich

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