Re: Advanced Job Scheduler -- MIDRANGE-L

Nathan,

The calendar itself can hold anything you want in the description (or other
fields). This could be straight commands to run, keywords that mean
something, JSON, XML, anything you want. It's just part of the tool. The
calendar!

As far as viewing scheduled jobs, you would want to create a calendar
specific for scheduled items. Make it only available to those who you want
to see and/or update it.

If you have an application running that requires that you set up a
scheduled job as part of the process, you can do that using our application
or build your own. Then you're adding calendar events on the fly without
user intervention.

Like I mentioned, I do this now. A customer downloads a trial of our
software. I insert an entry into my a specific Google Calendar just for
customer downloads automatically that will trigger a followup email 10 or
15 days later automatically (unless I delete the event, which I do for some
since keys can also be requested for DR or other reasons than evaluation).

I just saved myself TONs of time going through things and doing it
manually. (I know, because I used to do it manually... lol)

Use your imagination and you could find a lot of uses for something like
this.

I also agree with Jim's statement. I probably have echoed the same thing
many times. But, I also see the side where it's easier to just build
something vs having to ask for a requisition for software.

Most programmers aren't in the position to do that. I deal with many every
day and most do have a "process" to purchase anything that must be done. A
hierarchy. Paperwork.. Ugh.

There are channels that they need to go through which aren't always fun.
So sometimes it is easier just to write something yourself even if it isn't
very cost efficient. But that's why we like to keep our offerings cost low
enough that they should be "no brainers". Most cost less in a year than
you pay for your cell phone or cable TV in a month. :)

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lots of thought provoking points in this discussion.

I reviewed the Google Calendar UI (the browser user interface, which is
part of Google apps). There doesn't appear to be a close pairing of data
elements between Google's product, and what I would imagine a job scheduler
DB to look like.

In other words, I can imagine a number of data elements in a Job scheduler
DB which are not found in Google calendar. And there are certainly a lot of
data elements in Google calendar such as information pertaining to event
attendees, which would not be needed in a Job scheduler.

If you host a Job scheduler DB in IBM i, I could see DB insert and update
procedures pushing out changes to Google's database for viewing in Google's
applications. On the other hand, do you really want people viewing
scheduled Jobs?
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