Production Management System

Job Scheduling System

Job Scheduling is the user interface to many features of the Production Management system. It allows users to:

• Schedule batch production processes through simple, menu-driven screens.
• Create and sequence standard and unique jobs or job groups. A job group contains all jobs required to complete a specific process, such as month-end accounting reports, quarterly grade processing, and so forth.
• Specify output devices, number of copies, and special handling instructions.
• Enter required parameters and report formats.
• Reduce terminal data entry time through automatic schedule copying facility.

For complete documentation, see Using the Job Scheduling System and Job Scheduling Instructions Documentation.

Operator Interface (OPI)

The Operator Programmer Interface (OPI) provides the computer operator with a method of monitoring and controlling daily batch processing. It enables the operator to rerun jobs, change job statuses, modify parameters, and make other changes to the Job Initiator and is used to set the production mode.

Operation User Interface Guide.

Job Initiator

The Job Initiator is a program that automatically launches and monitors the scheduled jobs. It can execute several jobs concurrently while maintaining the job group, priority, and sequence integrity.

Output Distribution

The Output Distribution process allows users to produce report output on various printers and forms according to the data specified by the user on the Job Scheduling screens.

Job Scheduling/Output Distribution Utilities

The Job Scheduling/Output Distribution Utilities allows the applications programmer or systems manager to load and unload parameters, accounts, job groups, and job control language for each job.

Transporter

The Transporter system allows data files and messages to be transferred between computers in a distributed computing environment.

For complete documentation, see Transporter Programmer/Operator Reference Manual.