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Re: maestro/job rescue equivalent on IBM p series AIX ?
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donna hofmeister <[log in to unmask]>
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I strongly recommend you look into (in fact, should have already looked
into) buying <something> to manage job scheduling and sysout/stdlist
evaluation.  you're moving into a *very different* world and will/do not
have the tools (eg, cron) to accomplish what you're expecting without
applying $$$.

fwiw (and maybe you've already figured this out) -- writing a 'job' on *nix
is quite different that on mpe.  not so much from the 'do step 1...do step
2' perspective.  rather, rigorous error checking will make all the
difference.  dear mpe did an extraordinary job of giving us fserrors and
cierrors.  little that rich exists elsewhere.  errors happen...but tend to
get reported silently.  scripts need to *ask* to know if all went well or
not.  *disciplined* code/script writing is a must!            - d

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Donna Hofmeister
Allegro Consultants, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Eben Yong
> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 6:57 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] maestro/job rescue equivalent on IBM p series AIX ?
> 
> Hi Folks, We're getting ready to move off our venerable HP3000 to the
> IBM p
> Series AIX.  Was wondering a couple of things.  Looking for suggestions
> concerning a job scheduler system like Maestro (I know we can use
> chron).
> In fact, on our HP3000 we home-grew our own job scheduling system
> totally
> based on MPEX and security/3000.  Maybe we'll do something similar on
> the
> AIX.  But Job Rescue on the other hand I have found to be
> indispensable.
> Great tool which, hand in hand with our custom scheduler system is able
> to
> helpl track job aborts and also of course the $stdlists of the
> thousands of jobs
> that we run every year.  In any case, any suggestions in terms of
> equivalent
> replacements on the IBM p series?  Thx in advance, as always.
> Eben Yong
> Health Plan of San Mateo
> 
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