RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kind of, but not very good. It is called "Scheduled Tasks".

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Lang [mailto:aalang@rutgersinsurance.com]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 8:41 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...



Windows has no scheduling software?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:35 AM
Subject: RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...


> > From: Adam Lang
> >
> > Well, that batch problem is something we have on the AS/400 too.  When
we
> > run our end of day processing, no one can be logged into the
> > system because if any records are open the cycle won't run.
>
> Batch jobs colliding with online users is just a fact of data processing
> life.  The point is that on the AS/400, you can schedule jobs to be run
> unattended when nobody is on the machine.

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