Hi Colin,

You might want to check out BatchQue Plus. You can get a
fully-functional 30-day download at
http://www.softinno.co.uk/products/bqplus.html  We've begun to use it
and it seems to work very well. It allows for multiple batch queues, and
you can limit the number of jobs that run in each queue. It doesn't do
things like jobfence or inpri, but you can emulate some of that
functionality by using multiple queues and having queues activate at a
certain time.

For example, we use inpri=8 for immediate processing, inpri=1 for
after-hours work, and inpri=4 for after-backup processing.  In BQ+, you
could set up 3 queues, one named 'INPRI8', one named 'INPRI1', and one
named 'INPRI4', and have the INPRI1 queue activate at 5:00 pm, and the
INPRI4 queue activate after midnight (or whenever backup is scheduled).
The INPRI8 queue would be active during business hours.  Each queue
would be set to allow only one job to run at a time. Then, all you'd
need is a script to interpret a fake !JOB card to put each job, as it
was submitted, into the proper queue.

One thing that I really like about BQ+ over batch/at/cron, is it has a
nice menu-driven interface for the operations staff, and it'll do a nice
queue listing that shows which jobs are executing, who submitted them,
and what jobs are still waiting in the queue. Its built-in scheduling
feature is also nice.  Oh, one other thing; you can pass arguments to
the batch job at submit time by putting them on the command line. With a
little bit of script work, you could probably emulate Streamx's
prompting feature (or at least a limited subset thereof).

No <plug> as I'm not associated with BQ+, just a customer.
Check it out.


Colin Berg wrote:

> Hhi All,
>
>We are currently converting our system from the HP3000 platform across
>to the HP9000.
>
>While the applications conversion is not that difficult (Speedware and
>COBOL) the main problem we have come across is the conversion of our
>existing JCL to Unix Scripts.
>
>WE currently take extensive advantage of MPE commands such as
>
>LIMIT (To allow only one job to run at a time)
>
>JOBFENCE (To defer jobs in the queue)
>
>INPRI (To set job prioritieswithin the job queue)
>
>Has anyone got any recommendations or packages that can be run on the
>HP9000 to gives us the same or similar functionalty as the HP3000.
>
>Any other comments regarding job control on the HP9000 would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Colin Berg
>McWilliam's Wines Pty Limited
>Chullora, SYDNEY
>Australia
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