RE: Control M software from BMC

For those in need of scheduling, I believe we have replaced Control-M and Jams before from my understanding.

If you're in need of job scheduling software and are open to commercial solutions, HelpSystems has a couple of core product offerings worth reviewing.

Robot - For scheduling where IBM i is the core operating control environment.
http://www.helpsystems.com/robot

Skybot - Where you have a multi-platform system (Windows, Unix, Linux) as the core, but also want to run jobs on IBM i via a runtime agent.
http://www.helpsystems.com/skybot

Regards,


Richard Schoen
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message: 5
date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 10:30:29 +1200
from: PaultinNZ <paultormey@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Control M software from BMC

On the subject of Job Automation anyone here used JAMS?

I know it is Windows based but the claim is that it can interface and
schedule/run jobs on many different platforms.

Any thoughts?

On 4 June 2016 at 13:34, Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've looked into it (and some similar products) but haven't used it.

The use case for this and similar products IMO is for Cross Platform
scheduling where you want to co-ordinate tasks across multiple
platforms/servers/OS's.

If you don't need to do that - i.e. everything runs on the i - then you
will wind up with an over engineered and very expensive job management
console.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is anybody on the list using it? What are your thoughts? One of my

clients

is being led to believe that this is better than whatever IBM sells for

job

scheduling, etc.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx