NetBatch Manual

Glossary
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catalog DEFINEs
catalog DEFINEs. See DEFINE.
category. See calendar category and selection category.
class. A logical entity in a NetBatch scheduler. Classes control the flow of jobs to executors
and therefore to those executors’ CPUs. You can use classes to group jobs according
to their demand for system resources. For example, you could group CPU-bound jobs
such as program compilations into one class, I/O-bound jobs such as reports into
another class, and so on. You can assign classes to multiple executors, the order in
which you do so determines the order in which the executors process them.
completion code. A status code returned by a process to its creator. The code indicates
whether the process terminated successfully or otherwise.
concurrent job. A job executing at the same time as another job. A NetBatch scheduler can
execute up to 64 concurrent jobs.
control job. See bulk submit control job.
CPU. Central processing unit.
daily production bulk submit run. A production bulk submit run in which the bulk submit
program runs automatically at the same time each day. See also production bulk
submit run.
defaults DEFINEs. See DEFINE.
defaults set. A set of job attributes owned by a NonStop system user and recorded by
NetBatch-Plus in its database. Jobs in the database can share a common defaults set
and adopt their attributes from that set unless otherwise specified.
DEFINE. A named set of attributes and associated values. In a DEFINE (as with an
ASSIGN), you can specify information that jobs communicate to processes they
start. The NetBatch-Plus application supports five types of DEFINEs:
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Defaults DEFINEs hold the standard default values of a process such as the
default volume.
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Map DEFINEs redirect or substitute files. You can enter the logical name of a map
DEFINE in place of a physical file name in a command or procedure call.
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Spool DEFINEs pass information to the spooler collector process. The attributes of
a spool DEFINE specify parameters such as the spooler location and batch name.
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SQL catalog DEFINEs specify the locations of NonStop SQL/MP catalogs. You can
enter the logical name of the catalog DEFINE in place of a catalog name in
CATALOG clauses in NonStop SQL/MP data manipulation language (DML)
statements.