Re: Scheduling BPCS Jobs

[Lisa Abney <abney@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We, too, use ROBOT (AS/400, V3R6, BPCS 4.0.5 non-CD) to schedule jobs, but
use a data area, rather than LDA.  Seems to work just fine - we just have a
program that updates the data area to the correct date each day.

At 01:36 PM 8/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Mark Lindley wrote:
>> We are looking to run BPCS jobs via a job scheduler (eg pick release
>runs, batch allocations etc)
>> throughout the day. Is there an easy way of doing this or do we have to
>write some CL to send the
>> program its huge parameter string. Also what are the BPCS security
>implications.
>>
>> Nb this also applies to day-end jobs.
>>
>We use the ROBOT product for scheduling jobs and have encountered problems
>with the LDA of the submitted job not containing some variable (ie WSID)
>that BPCS needed.  We use SYS664 and SYS656 to correct this problem.
>
>Currently AS/400 (V3R7) BPCS 4.0 migrating to 4.05CD
>
>Sue
>
>
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