Cathy,
Take a look at Tidal Scheduler from Tidalsoftware. Their url is
www.tidalsoftware.com. We have used their software for almost two years. We can do what you described and MUCH MUCH more. Here is an excerpt from my next JDEtips Journal article that describes what we can do with Tidal:
"Dear Mr. Solution Explorer Guy,
We are very frustrated with the limitations of the internal scheduling capabilities of EnterpriseOne. We would love to be able to set dependencies between jobs, but it doesn’t do that. Can you make any recommendations?
- Frustrated in Fredonia
Dear Frustrated,
I feel your pain. We went through the same frustrations. We started to look for a third party solution for that, but couldn’t justify the cost. During our last project, the wish list grew, now the users wanted a tool that not only could look for dependencies, but also run jobs from systems outside of JDE. We found our tool from Tidal Software.
Tidal Scheduler software allows us to schedule very sophisticated streams of jobs within JDE. We can control by date, day of the week, account for holidays, month end closing and any other variable. We can set dependencies so that if a job fails it will send out notifications by email and sms for immediate attention. If you choose, you can halt subsequent jobs in a stream if a certain job fails. For example, if your sales posting jobs did not run, there is no need to run jobs to create invoices or run AR reports.
The feature that really sold us was how Tidal could schedule jobs from third party systems too. We use Tidal to run our Cognos reports, Webmethods jobs, FTP moves and so much more. And the really cool part is that you can blend all of those jobs together in one big process. Let’s use our nightly sales process as an example......" {I would continue, but then you wouldn't subscribe to JDEtips
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Gregg Larkin
JDE System Administrator (CNC) / North America
Praxair, Inc.