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Job Scheduling Software Smoothes Data Transfers at IUF
6/19/2008
Reports are another plus for the system, since the software tracks what jobs ran when--or why a particular job failed to run. Partly because of ActiveBatch's reporting capabilities, Sissom said, he hopes to eventually run every scheduled job in ActiveBatch. With the reporting functions available, he will then be able to look in one place to see exactly which jobs succeeded and failed each night. "Whenever there are problems, we don't have to spend as much time researching it; ActiveBatch tells us the exact place the problem occurred," Sissom explained. "Using the GUI, we can go in and look at the log to see what the error messages are and correct the underlying program."
He'll also be able to schedule jobs right on top of one another, so that one can begin right after the preceding one finishes; that will allow more batch jobs to be run closer together over a single night.
"It's really improved our response to jobs that failed," Sissom said. "It's improved our uptime." Instead of waiting for users to complain that data hasn't been updated, he said, "In a lot of cases, we can fix problems and users won't even know there was a problem."
Linda L. Briggs is a freelance writer based in San Diego, Calif.
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