Re: FYI

Konrad,
  I am sure there are places that this won't work... I would suggest that it
be tested or monitored.

Hoping against hope that Mapics would give the ability to do more job
scheduling.

Pete
----- Original Message -----
From: Konrad Underkofler <kdunderk@hoshizaki.com>
To: <mapics-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:02 PM
Subject: RE: FYI


> Pete,
>
> Just one caution, well actually two.
>
> 1) Some jobs have predicate steps so you can't hold
> the middle step... ie calculate paychecks, print
> paychecks. Would not want to hold the calculate step.
>
> 2) Through JOBACT and CNFLCT some batch jobs would
> immediately prohibit other MAPICS tasks. So even
> though you submit it for later execution MAPICS would
> think it was still active or pending.
>
> But for long reports and other tasks it would work.
>
> Regards
>
> Konrad
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete [mailto:peteo@htol.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:28 PM
> To: mapics-l@midrange.com
> Subject: FYI
>
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> Good Afternoon list...
>
> Maybe everyone is or was aware of this.... But I just found this out
> myself... I believe there was some talk as to being able to schedule
various
> Mapics jobs... Something to try until mapics decides to make that
available
> in many more tasks then they currently have..
> If you hold the qbatch job queues.. Qbatch - Qbatch6.. (depends on what
you
> have setup to use in that env.). Go to the menu and run the option or
> options that you want... Do a wrkjobq and find your task... If you put a 2
> on it, cmd 10(additional parms) roll to next page.. There is a schedule
date
> and scheduled time... Change those to let's say a Saturday at Midnight..
> They would then process at the specified time.. (don't forget to release
the
> jobq)
> I ran several test and it does not appear to affect the backup..
>
> If you already knew this, Sorry to bother.. else I hope this would be of
> value
>
> To all,,,,, Have a Happy Holiday Season
>
> Pete Olshavsky
> Ind Mapics Programmer/Systems Analyst
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