Automated Operations and Job Scheduling
ASIST/System Automator provides you with the ability to schedule system management tasks and operations so that your system resources are allocated efficiently.
Job Automation
Job scheduling
Job automation (automatic execution)
- Batch processing
- Periodic job execution
- Frequency execution
- Support for non-active days (weekends, for example)
- Support for multiple calendars
- Expiration control features
- Job ownership messaging and control
Job automation (manual execution)
- Interactive processing
- Restricted state activities
- On-line job debugging and testing
Support for parameter passing
Support for LDA (Local Data Area)
Job messaging
Job dependencies
Job monitoring
Logical decision branching
- Automatic power down or IPL**** conditioning, or both
- Specify any system startup activity
- Specify system to power down or to ****
Selective job termination
Automatic external job release
Automated control levels (optional), such as:
- Periodic reminders
- Notification messages
- Job prompting before execution begins
- user interaction
Exception reporting
Print job run sheets (2 views)
House Keeping
Wasted space reclamation by:
- Purging messages queues
- Purging reports that have not been printed
- Purging detached, saved journal receivers
- Automatically reclaiming space within any file (RGZPFM)
- Supporting RCLSTG command in restricted state
- Automatically monitoring and reacting to disk usage on exceeding thresholds
- Detecting damaged objects
User Interaction and Security Reporting
User Interaction
- User notification
- User prompts and confirmations
- User activation
Security Reporting
- User authorities
- Password expiration dates
Integration into Existing Applications
API commands for communicating, activating, or monitoring between ASIST/System Automator and home grown applications
Fast path command that activates any ASIST menu options from a command line or menu option
Attended and Attended Backup Management
Backup Management
- Automatic backup strategy
- Automatic detection of new libraries
- Support for all OS/400, i5/OS and IBM i backup and save commands
- Support for automatic backup to disk
- Backup of spool files (reports) that have not been deleted
Tape Management, Disaster Recovery, and
UPS Power Condition Monitoring
Tape Management
- Support for tape pools
- Support for scratch tapes
- Support for tape generation
- Tape requirements analysis
- Correct or incorrect tape load verification
Disaster Recovery
- Disaster recovery exposure reporting
- Object recovery reporting
- On-line audit features
- Restoration of spool files (reports) from tape
UPS Power Condition Monitoring
- Automatic response to UPS systems, whenever a fluctuation in electric power occurs
Management Reporting and Report Management
Collection and summarization of information for different management and operational levels, such as:
- Executive management
- Systems management
- Systems administration
- Console and supervisor management
- Exceptions reporting
- Full system audit reporting
- One-page summary
- System health check
- Auditor reporting
Reporting levels, such as:
- Executive displays and reporting
- Systems management display and reporting
- Administrative operational display and reporting
- Console supervision display and reporting
- Operations task level and display reporting
Report distribution, such as:
- Monitoring of output queues and automatic moving of the report to a specified local or remote user output queue
- Searching and retrieval of specified reports for removal, release, hold, or save.
- Spooling of file (report) backup to tape
- Spooling of file (report) restoration from tape
News Distribution and Job Management
News Distribution
- Ability for users to distribute news items
- Ability for administrators to edit or delete items prior to release
- Ability for manual or automatic news distribution
Job Management
- Audit reporting
- History logging
- On-line and real time job reporting
- Exceptional job failure investigation facility
- Logical job and event planning (standard worksheet procedures)