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Not to be left out, but Speedware's AMXW product has the same 
functionality.  AMXW runs on pretty much any unix platform as well as 
windows.  The MPE job scheduler and JCL can happily run native 
platform-specific code along with the MPE code. For example,

!JOB TESTJOB,MGR.FOOBY
!SHOWJOB > SJOUT
!grep "FOO" SJOUT > SJout2
!perl -f myscript.pl SJout2
!EOJ

We support true temporary files, and have an MPE-style SPOOLER, so 
that, yep, your stdlists appear where you think they should!  The 
PAUSE ,JOB= works, too!  Because we don't depend upon cron on unix, 
the priority and scheduling of the job works the way that it's supposed 
to.  Cron has issues with streaming more than 1 job per second, and 
on aix, more than 60 jobs per minute.  It also cannot guarantee job 
execution order for jobs scheduled in the same minute!

We can support multiple JOB queues, streaming from inside of code, 
MPE CI commands, global variables, some MPEX commands, etc. etc.  
All the things that you'd expect to find in MPE, just running on another 
platform.   There's even a version of Suprtool-UX (from Robelle) that 
has been tuned to work with AMXW!  

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We have found that windows' built-in scheduler is sometimes a little 
flaky, and you really will need a third-party job-scheduler to do serious 
production work.  Which one to get?  It all depends on your needs!

Don't shoot me, I'm just a techie...

~ ken ~
Ken Robertson
Senior Solutions Architect
Speedware (a division of Activant)
514-747-7007

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