Unicenter Autosys: job scheduling tool

I was sad and excited, may be li'l bit happy, when I started with my new work. Sad for am going to miss colleagues, the Neptune project in whole, except the SAP team - no love lost, among others. Excited for a new challenge looms; I thought.

I was useless/worthless in my team for the whole month - FICC IT PTF, whatever that means; while the team comprises: Indian, Chinese, locals [Singaporean], and us - Pinoy. Lucky for us, one of the shift leads or station managers is a Pinoy; I call him The Director - I find the job bit boring. It may be because I still don't have the access on other applications but, it could be the job is - as my shift lead puts it - for kindergarten. Sorry, just quoting. It makes me miss my SYSSUPPORT access. But, of course, this doesn't mean that I'm gonna stop writing about UNIX. Nada! It's a continuous learning. Next target: Solaris and RHEL. We got books here, as well as, CBTs.

On the side note, I came to learn a new application. It's the Unicenter Autosys - a job scheduling tool. Just like the Control-M, the one that we use before. It's just like a cron job, with conditions that can be set in order for that job to run. As for my job, in our team, tickets are assigned via "tasks". You are assigned tasks to be done on certain time [with or without SLA]. So, everyone has got something to do. You can't run, you can't hide!

As for the Autosys, we use it to check on jobs if they run successfully or otherwise. As mentioned, jobs should meet certain conditions before it will be executed. Such conditions ranges from time to dependencies to other jobs. I'll post here next time some results from my tasks. As for the meantime, please read on Unicenter Autosys.

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The "as for now" is over. I "stole" some results from the tasks assigned to me today. You may have read about it but here is the example:

user101@server202> aj IRS_server203_EOD-EUR

Job Name Last Start Last End ST Run Pri/Xit
__________________ _____________ _____________ __ _______ ___

IRS_server203_EOD-EUR 09/30/2008 21:00 09/30/2008 21:11 SU 24773663/1
user101@server202> aj IRS_server203_EOD-EUR -q

/* ----------------- IRS_server203_EOD-EUR ----------------- */

insert_job: IRS_server203_EOD-EUR job_type: c
command: $$XXX/Scripts/Autosys/IRS_server203_EOD-EUR.sh
machine: server203
#owner: XXX
permission: gx,mx
date_conditions: 1
days_of_week: mo,tu,we,th,fr
start_times: "21:00"
description: "Rerun=0;663;Chat : XXX ; DL-xxx-yyy , DL-zzz-aaa"
std_err_file: $$XXX/Scripts/Autosys/Logs/IRS_server203_EOD-EUR.err
min_run_alarm: 1
max_run_alarm: 10
alarm_if_fail: 1
timezone: US/Eastern
user101@server202> aj IRS_server203_EOD-EUR -r -1

Job Name Last Start Last End ST Run Pri/Xit
__________________ _____________ _____________ __ _______ ___

IRS_server203_EOD-EUR 09/29/2008 21:00 09/29/2008 21:13 SU 24728737/1
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You might wonder about the "aj" command, and you may not find it anywhere. Before chaos reigns in our midst, it's just an alias for "autorep -J".

Here, another example - a running job:

user101@server202> aj FI_FCTxx_DownStream_BOX
Job Name Last Start Last End ST Run Pri/Xit
_______________ _____________ ____________ __ _______ ___

FI_FCTxx_DownStream_BOX 09/30/2008 21:29 ----- RU 24767669/1
FI_FCTxx_Settlement 09/30/2008 21:29 ----- RU 24767669/1
FI_FCTxx_JetBase 09/30/2008 21:30 09/30/2008 21:31 SU 24767669/1
FI_FCTxx_JetBase_SFtp 09/11/2008 21:38 09/11/2008 21:38 OI 24115468/1
FI_FCTxx_Socrates 09/30/2008 21:29 09/30/2008 21:30 SU 24767669/1
FI_FCTxx_Socrates_SFtp 09/30/2008 21:30 09/30/2008 21:31 SU 24767669/1
FI_FCTxx_MRC 09/30/2008 21:29 09/30/2008 21:30 SU 24767669/1
FI_FCTxx_MRC_SFtp 09/30/2008 21:30 09/30/2008 21:31 SU 24767669/1
FI_FCTxx_CPVar_SFtp 09/30/2008 21:30 09/30/2008 21:31 SU 24767669/1

user101@server202> job_depends -c -J FI_FCTxx_Settlement
______________________________________________________
Start Dependent
Job Name Status Date Cond? Cond? Jobs?
-------- ------ --------------- ----- ---------
FI_FCTxx_Settlement RUNNING No No No
______________________________________________________

user101@server202> job_depends -d -J FI_FCTxx_Settlement
Job Dependency Report

Job Name Date Cond? Atomic Start Conditions
______________________ _______________ ________________

FI_FCTxx_Settlement ------- -------
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