BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation
by Qiang Ding
Managing batch jobs as workloads
The jobs we have been running so far are designed to be submitted onto a predefined host for execution; this is the so-called static scheduling. There is nothing wrong with it and, in fact, this is how batch processing happened originally, right back to the OS built-in scheduling tool (for example, CRON) days. It is absolutely fine if there is only a handful of non-critical jobs running on fixed dates at fixed times. However, as we progress into event triggering, the batch workload no longer stays the same and becomes subject to a number of external events, generated at a given time. Peak periods are hard to predict. Too many events generated around the same period can overload the job execution machine and thereby ...
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