RE: Control M software from BMC

[Richard Schoen <Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For those in need of scheduling, I believe we have replaced Control-M and Jams before from my understanding.

If you're in need of job scheduling software and are open to commercial solutions, HelpSystems has a couple of core product offerings worth reviewing.

Robot - For scheduling where IBM i is the core operating control environment. 
http://www.helpsystems.com/robot

Skybot - Where you have a multi-platform system (Windows, Unix, Linux) as the core, but also want to run jobs on IBM i via a runtime agent. 
http://www.helpsystems.com/skybot

Regards,


Richard Schoen 
Director of Document Management 
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
p. 952.486.6802 
w. helpsystems.com 
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message: 5
date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 10:30:29 +1200
from: PaultinNZ <paultormey@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Control M software from BMC

On the subject of Job Automation anyone here used JAMS?

I know it is Windows based but the claim is that it can interface and
schedule/run jobs on many different platforms.

Any thoughts?

On 4 June 2016 at 13:34, Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've looked into it (and some similar products) but haven't used it.
>
> The use case for this and similar products IMO is for Cross Platform
> scheduling where you want to co-ordinate tasks across multiple
> platforms/servers/OS's.
>
> If you don't need to do that - i.e. everything runs on the i - then you
> will wind up with an over engineered and very expensive job management
> console.
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Is anybody on the list using it? What are your thoughts? One of my
> clients
> > is being led to believe that this is better than whatever IBM sells for
> job
> > scheduling, etc.
> >
> > Paul Nelson
> > Cell 708-670-6978
> > Office 409-267-4027
> > nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx