Using Appworx to Schedule Jobs in Banner

Joyce Feimer - IT Services Analyst and Eric Raznick- Director, ITS

San Mateo County Community College District

Appworx @ SMCCD

•About 27,000 students

Appworx @ SMCCD

• Live with Banner 7 - Student, HR, Fin Aid, Finance,

• Other products: Xtender, SARS, Ad Astra, Hyperion (Brio), etc..

• Using Banner since version 1!• Now using IBM AIX (Unix)

Appworx @ SMCCD

• Why we wanted an automated Job Scheduler…– Had been on VMS for many years

• Really liked “single threaded queues”• Didn’t have a lot of background in Unix shell

scripts (cron is icky!)• Wanted something designed to work with

Banner• Ability to monitor the jobs as they are running• You don’t have to feed it!

Appworx @ SMCCDType of jobs we run from Appworx:•Nightly feeds (sfrfasc, sfpfaud, tgrfeed, tgrappl, furfeed, etc..)

•Hourly Shell scripts (stats, moving files around)

•External Application Extracts

•Warehouse jobs

•Daily Statistical Reports

•“Clean-up” scripts

•Creation of “static web pages”

•Baseline Banner jobs!

# 05 18 * * * /usr/local/admin/backups/dbbackup > /var/tmp/dbbackup.log 2>&1# 09 17 * * * /untar.shl >/var/tmp/untar.log 2>&1# 42 14 * * * /usr/local/admin/clone_PROD_PPRD.shl >/var/tmp/clone_PPRD.log 2>&1# 39 17 * * * su - oracle -c /u09/exports/impPROD.shl >/u09/impPROD.log 2>&1# 54 16 * * * su - oracle -c /u01/oracle/admin/PROD/create/PROD.sh >/u01/tmp/PROD.log 2>&1#end Colby## Ted - PPRD no longer on LUCY since ban7 go LIVE!# Clone PPRD on Sunday using the most resent backup##00 07 * * 0 /usr/local/admin/backups/rman_dbdup0_pprd.shl >/usr/local/admin/logs/rman_dbdup0_pprd.log 2>&1### Check for posting errors5,25,45 8-19 * * 1-6 su - operfin -c "/usr/local/admin/chk_posting.shl PROD" >/var/tmp/chk_posting.log 2>&1## Restart Finance SleepWake to load output files into database for review00 11,15 * * * su - operfin -c "/usr/local/admin/restart_slwk_db.shl PROD" >/var/tmp/restart_slwk_db.log 2>&1## Stop the Finance SleepWake processes00 22 * * * su - operfin -c "/usr/local/admin/stop_slwk_db.shl PROD" >/var/tmp/

Creating a Module

Define the library

Define Program Type

Define Output

Define Prompts

Edit Prompts

Edit Prompts

Define Schedule

Chains

Expanded Chain

Predecessor - Success

Predecessor - Complete

Frequency of Runtimes

Frequency setup

Daily Reoccurring Jobs

Create Exceptions

Ad Hoc Submission

Enter Prompts & Options

Submit job to run

Successful Finish

Output Files

Output - Log files

Emailed Output

Unsuccessful Finish

Log File of Failed Job

Viewing Output Files

• We licensed a small program called RptView (Report Viewer) for Windows from Drec Software

• Looks like “greenbar”!• Contact Info:

– http://www.drecsoftware.com/

Output – List files

Important Things to Know…

• If you copy the database – be careful…• In Chains - consideration of the

“Predecessor” Actions are really important! (Success, Failure, Complete, etc)

• Does not use the path statement the same way – you need to make sure you are pointed at the right version of executables.

Questions???Suggestions???

Many thanks from Eric & Joyce

raznick@smccd.edufeimer@smccd.edu