NetBatch Manual

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1 NetBatch Introduction
This section introduces the NetBatch product:
Product Overview
NetBatch is an HP NonStop software product that lets your organization automate job
scheduling, startup, and management on NonStop systems. The product:
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Complements the systems’ online transaction processing (OLTP) capabilities by
providing automated batch processing facilities on those systems
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Increases job throughput by enabling job distribution among the systems’ CPUs
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Frees staff for other work by reducing the need for user intervention in jobs
NetBatch Jobs
A NetBatch job is a process or sequence of processes that performs specified tasks.
For example, a job could start an online Pathway application, summarize and post end-
of-period results, or back up data files.
All NetBatch jobs have an executor program and, depending on the program, an input
file. The input file contains commands executed by the executor program, which the
NetBatch scheduler starts as the job’s initial process. The executor-program process
can in turn start other processes. Figure 1-1 on page 1-2 illustrates this concept.
Topic Page
Product Overview
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Core Components 1-4
Scheduler Functions 1-6
NetBatch High-PIN Capabilities 1-12