146 WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide
6.3.1 Job scheduler
The job scheduler provides job management functions, such as submit, cancel, and restart. It
accepts job submissions and determines where to run them. It maintains a history of all job
activity, including waiting jobs, running jobs, and completed jobs. Stand-alone application
servers, dynamic clusters, and static clusters can host the job scheduler.
As part of managing jobs, the job scheduler uses a relational database to store job
information. This relational database can be any relational database that is supported by
WebSphere Application Server. If the scheduler is clustered, the database must be a network
database, such as DB2.
Optionally, jobs ...