How CSBP Turbocharged Its Enterprise Job Scheduling Capability
Rodney Hee
August 2010
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Agenda• Background• Requirements• CSBP Job Scheduling• Product Evaluation• Project Management• Benefits• Key Learnings
About CSBP www.csbp.com.au
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Background• 2009 Upgrade from Xe7333 to ERP 8.12.• Migrate from AS400 iSeries to Microsoft Windows/SQL
Server• Migrate Help Systems Job Scheduler to JDE Scheduler• Interim solution for go live – JDE Job launcher
application. • Loss of job scheduling functions
– Groups, Dependencies, Calendaring, Printing, Notifications
Background
CSBP’s Job Scheduling Requirements• Job Logic & Dependencies
– Parent to Parent and Parent to Child dependencies – Stop processing a group of jobs if a child job fails, and launch
next group.• Calendaring inclusions and exclusions• Job retries (automated/manual)• Job run window• Job completion notification (failure/success)• Integration with JDE and external processes
– SQL Package execution– Cognos Cube builds
CSBP Job Scheduling Structure
Product EvaluationGartner
Magic Quadrant
Enterprise Job Schedulers
Product Evaluation
Selection Criteria Tidal Zena D-SeriesJDE Interoperability 2
Solution Connector
1RUNUBE
1 Web
Service
SQL Server Interoperability 1 1 1
JDE Reference Sites 1 1 0
Setup / Job Control 2 1 1
Cost 1 1 1
Total 7 5 4
Product Evaluation
for Demonstration,
POC and Training
Project Timeline
Demos
Mar Apr May Jun Jul
Tidal POC
Selection/ Contract Training
Implementation
Go Live
Benefits• Shortened Job processing window• Job status notification
– IS Operations Staff– Business Systems Specialists
• Global view of scheduled jobs• Better job control
– Resubmit, Cancel, Hold, Override– Dependencies– Links to calendars
Key Learnings• Understand your job scheduling requirements• Develop a good knowledge of scheduling tool
functions and configuration options.• Conduct a POC – Try before you buy • Test ! Test ! Test !• Manage your production rollout • Maintain a UAT Environment
Questions&
Product Tour
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Enterprise Adapters
Reporting Server
ETL Engine
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ExternalEvents
Windows or Linux
Clients
Win ClientWeb Client CLI
New JDE Solution Connector
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