3rd Party Job Scheduling Tools

Does anyone use a 3rd Party job scheduling tool such as BMC's Control-M product? If so what are your likes/dislikes?

We are actually researching the same thing....we need to find something besides the JDE scheduler.

If your on a unix system cron is extremely reliable.

Morglum

We use Appworx...it's top notch in this department.

www.appworx.com

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Thank you for the responses, we will be looking at the following: If anyone has any others to add I would appreciate it. Thank you all
Appworx -
www.appworx.com
BMC - http://www.bmc.com/products/proddocview/0,2832,19052_19429_23437_1521,00.html
Tidal - http://www.tidalsoft.com/products/tes/enterprise_scheduler.htm

We are going through a similar evaluation. I have uploaded a balanced scorecard based on the features we believe are important.

Notes:
* We weighted many of the non-JDE job scheduler features higher than the feature of integrating with JDE. We have written a SQL stored procedure that is integrated with the JDE job scheduler for running JDE jobs. Since any of the schedulers can handle stored procedures, we throught JDE integration would be nice, but not required.

AppWorx is nice, but I don't beleive it can run on the AS/400. ROBOT is a sweet scheduler for the 400 and may integrate nicely with PeopleSoft.

sashton,

We use ROBOT on our AS/400 and it is a nice scheduler. Unfortunately if you use it you will get NO support for any UBE's that fail. We have been arguing this with JDE/PeopleSoft for as long as we have been on OW (4 years now). When using any scheduler, be carefull that you don't submit 2 or more UBE's at the same time. There is a bug in a JDE kernel function that sometimes allows duplicate run numbers. When this happens the 2nd job to actually run fails. We find the occurance of this failure is about once every 10K-20K jobs, since we put through about 60K jobs a day we get 4-5 failures every 24 hours. JDE will only support you if you use RUNUBE from the command line. Since this is a timing problem, your chances of duplicating the problem manually are minimal.

AppWorx does run on the AS/400. It's a very nice package that tends to have more flexibility than other packages. We've looked at Tivoli and BMC as well as some other smaller packages in the past as competitors of AppWorx.

According to our rep with PoepleSoft, they will support the issue as long as you can run the job manually using RUNUBE from a command line. If it doesn't work that way, they will support it. If it runs that way but fails in the third party app, they will not support it.

We use IBM's JS Job Scheduler on the iSeries. Works great. Has nice features like dependencies and mutual exclusion. Also has the added benefit of IBM support.

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