NetBatch-Plus Reference Manual

Introducing NetBatch-Plus
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Screen-Based Job and Scheduler Management
Screen-Based Job and Scheduler Management
The NetBatch-Plus scheduler interface screens enable you to set up and control
NetBatch schedulers and their objects (executors, classes, and jobs). You can view
details of jobs executing in or awaiting execution by schedulers. Where necessary, you
can also alter details of the jobs or stop their execution.
Access to External Processes
The NetBatch-Plus application gives you easy access, via the Utility Menu screen, to
external processes. The screen saves you time because you can run processes such
as Guardian utilities without having to exit and reenter the application.
Your system administrator can configure the Utility Menu screen to let you access up to
12 processes.
Flexible Reporting Facilities
The NetBatch-Plus application supports Enform reporting of its database.
The application’s software includes ten standard Enform reports. To customize these
reports, change their EDIT-format source files (also supplied with the software). You
can also write your own reports, using the supplied source files as examples.
To select and execute NetBatch-Plus reports, use the function keys on the Reports
screen. Your system administrator can configure this screen to let you access up to
eight reports. To run reports not listed on the screen, specify the names of their source
or object files.
Screen Security and Record Security
There are two types of NetBatch-Plus security:
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Screen security controls user access to NetBatch-Plus screens and functions. It
uses password-protected user names to which your system administrator assigns
screen and function access privileges.
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Record security applies to defaults set, job, and catalog and job attachment
records in the NetBatch-Plus database. Each of these records has a Guardian
owner and Guardian security attributes that control read, write, use, and purge
access. A NetBatch-Plus user wanting access to one of these records must first
validate, on the Password Validation screen, the user ID and password of a
Guardian user with access to that record.
Note. To control user access to the scheduler and its objects, use the NetBatch job
management system. For information on the NetBatch system, see the NetBatch User’s Guide.