NetBatch Manual

NetBatch Manual—522460-004

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Job Planning, Submission, and

Management

This section describes how to work with NetBatch jobs:

Planning Jobs

This subsection outlines a job planning procedure that lets your organization take

advantage of NetBatch job management facilities. The procedure is based on the

assumption that programs comprising the jobs:

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Generate Event Management Service (EMS) event messages when significant

errors and warnings occur during processing. The programs should send these

messages to the same EMS collector as the NetBatch scheduler.

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Use completion codes to indicate process termination status. This lets you use the

NetBatch job-recovery attributes IFFAILS, RESTART, STALL, and STOP-ON-

ABEND to manage job recovery and restart functions.

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Follow a standard recovery strategy and enable automated or partially automated

recovery. Automated or partially automated recovery is likely to involve use of

NonStop Transaction Management Facility (TMF) software.

The procedure covers such topics as identifying programs and run environments,

establishing recovery strategies, and determining job attributes. The subsection also

discusses input-file creation, describes the use of completion codes in job

management, and explains how the scheduler tracks and controls jobs’ processes.

Planning Procedure

Step 1: Identify and Categorize Existing and Potential Jobs

Create a table that categorizes existing and potential jobs by type or business function

(for example, backups or payroll processing). For each job category:

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Record job ownership details and list the programs used

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Indicate whether the jobs are CPU-bound or I/O-bound

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Itemize their resource requirements (disks, tape drives, printers, and so on)

Topic Page

Planning Jobs

4-1

Submitting Jobs 4-13

Managing Jobs 4-42