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Getting Started with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler V8.3
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Getting Started with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler V8.3

by Vasfi Gucer, Doroti Almeida Dias Garcia, Carl Buehler, Matt Dufner, Clinton Easterling, Douglas Gibbs, Warren Gill, Natalia Jojic, Rick Jones, Pete Soto
October 2006
Intermediate to advanced
634 pages
15h 39m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Tivoli Workload Scheduler V8.3 3
1.3 Common Job Scheduler terminology
All Job Scheduler solutions shared a common terminology. The following list
shows some typical terms used in the course of scheduling computer-oriented
tasks and their meaning.
򐂰 Job
The smallest unit of work to be handled by the Job Scheduler. A job is
typically an operating system command, executable program, or a script. In a
mainframe environment, it is a set of job control language (JCL) that runs a
single executable program.
򐂰 Job stream
A collection of jobs that are logically related. A job stream is a series of jobs,
which are usually run in a very specific order, and when viewed as a whole
are considered a job stream.
򐂰 Predecessor
A job or ...
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