NetBatch Manual

NetBatch Introduction

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Core Components

The NetBatch product has five core components:

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A scheduler program (NETBATCH)

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A command interpreter (BATCHCOM)

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A calendar generation program (BATCHCAL)

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An executor program (NBEXEC)

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A TAL procedure (NB^JOB^SUBMIT)

Figure 1-2 on page 1-5 shows the components in a sample NetBatch environment.

NETBATCH

NETBATCH is the program-file ID of the NetBatch scheduler. The scheduler is a

process-pair server that stores job records in its database. It schedules and starts the

jobs, tracks and controls their execution, and records details of their termination. It also

controls, by means of classes and executors, the distribution of jobs among CPUs in

your system. The scheduler’s command interface is BATCHCOM. For more

information on the scheduler, see Scheduler Functions on page 1-6.

BATCHCOM

BATCHCOM is the program-file ID of the NetBatch command interpreter. BATCHCOM

enables interactive and noninteractive manipulation of the scheduler, the scheduler’s

executors and classes, and attachment sets and jobs. For more information on

BATCHCOM, see Section 6, Commands.

BATCHCAL

BATCHCAL is the program-file ID of the NetBatch calendar program. The program

allows you to generate a calendar file containing a series of dates and times called run

times. You can schedule a job to run automatically at those times by using the

CALENDAR attribute to assign the file to the job. BATCHCAL also can display run

times in a calendar file and reformat an old calendar file to the current format. For more

information on BATCHCAL, see Section 5, Run Calendar Generation and Display

NBEXEC

NBEXEC is the program-file ID of the NetBatch executor program. Compatible with

BPROC (the batch execution process of obsolete product MIS Batch), NBEXEC

executes control file commands, supplies data to started processes, and logs process

output. NBEXEC can run as a NonStop process pair and offers a simple-but-powerful

job control language that includes error testing and job-recovery facilities. For more

information on NBEXEC, see Appendix B, NBEXEC.