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  • August 28, 2008
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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 27 August 2008]

I'm very new to AcuCobol but very old to Cobol in general. I'm looking for the best way to create a scheduling environment for batch activities. My background is HP MPE and in that arena, once could run a batch job (job 1) in the morning that would immediately stream other batch jobs (job 2,job 3, job 4) at specific times and then it (job 1) would end while the others waited until their appropriate scheduled run time). I can think of a way to make all of this happen in AcuCobol but I want to make sure that I'm not re-inventing the wheel and not doing it in a very ugly way.
Thanks in advance,
Mike

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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 27 August 2008]

    I'm very new to AcuCobol but very old to Cobol in general. I'm looking for the best way to create a scheduling environment for batch activities. My background is HP MPE and in that arena, once could run a batch job (job 1) in the morning that would immediately stream other batch jobs (job 2,job 3, job 4) at specific times and then it (job 1) would end while the others waited until their appropriate scheduled run time). I can think of a way to make all of this happen in AcuCobol but I want to make sure that I'm not re-inventing the wheel and not doing it in a very ugly way.
    Thanks in advance,
    Mike
    I'll guess that you are moving into the Unix world versus the Windows world.

    For Unix, check out crontab

    http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm

    For Windows, there is a Scheduler

    http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 27 August 2008]

    I'm very new to AcuCobol but very old to Cobol in general. I'm looking for the best way to create a scheduling environment for batch activities. My background is HP MPE and in that arena, once could run a batch job (job 1) in the morning that would immediately stream other batch jobs (job 2,job 3, job 4) at specific times and then it (job 1) would end while the others waited until their appropriate scheduled run time). I can think of a way to make all of this happen in AcuCobol but I want to make sure that I'm not re-inventing the wheel and not doing it in a very ugly way.
    Thanks in advance,
    Mike
    It's Windows but I was looking form something more robust than the task scheduler.
    Ex:
    Start job 1 at 10:00 am
    Start job 2 when job 1 finishes
    Start job 3 when file X shows up
    Start job 4 when file Y is non longer present.

    This is just an example
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 27 August 2008]

    I'm very new to AcuCobol but very old to Cobol in general. I'm looking for the best way to create a scheduling environment for batch activities. My background is HP MPE and in that arena, once could run a batch job (job 1) in the morning that would immediately stream other batch jobs (job 2,job 3, job 4) at specific times and then it (job 1) would end while the others waited until their appropriate scheduled run time). I can think of a way to make all of this happen in AcuCobol but I want to make sure that I'm not re-inventing the wheel and not doing it in a very ugly way.
    Thanks in advance,
    Mike
    It's Windows but I was looking form something more robust than the task scheduler.
    Ex:
    Start job 1 at 10:00 am
    Start job 2 when job 1 finishes
    Start job 3 when file X shows up
    Start job 4 when file Y is non longer present.

    This is just an example
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 27 August 2008]

    I'm very new to AcuCobol but very old to Cobol in general. I'm looking for the best way to create a scheduling environment for batch activities. My background is HP MPE and in that arena, once could run a batch job (job 1) in the morning that would immediately stream other batch jobs (job 2,job 3, job 4) at specific times and then it (job 1) would end while the others waited until their appropriate scheduled run time). I can think of a way to make all of this happen in AcuCobol but I want to make sure that I'm not re-inventing the wheel and not doing it in a very ugly way.
    Thanks in advance,
    Mike
    Looks like a bat script would do this. When each run is finished the program can set or unset an environment and the bat script could execute job x based on those values.

    The bat script could be launched via the Windows scheduler.

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