Job Scheduling in a Heterogeneous OS Environment

Automating IT operations and workflows in today’s heterogeneous enterprise data center environments needs a job scheduling solution that can span across various operating systems. Tidal Enterprise Scheduler enables you to integrate, automate, and manage all your applications across different operating system platforms from a single console. With this robust solution, you can easily create, manage and monitor application jobs and job dependencies among all your OS environments, while at the same time bringing unprecedented richness in automation functionality to your applications, regardless of the platform they run on.

Tidal Enterprise Scheduler adds capabilities like exception-based management and fault tolerance to your job schedule. More importantly, you achieve the ability to integrate your application jobs into business workflows that involve applications on different platforms, including Unix, Windows, and mainframe platforms. Cross-system dependencies can be attached to native OS jobs. The results are greater productivity and reliability, with reduced implementation and operations costs.

Key Features and Benefits

• Delivers unified, enterprise-wide application scheduling automation for Windows, Unix, Linux, OS/400, OVMS, z/OS, Tandem, and MPE/iX environments
• Runs native OS commands, and command line scripts for each of the supported operating systems
• Enables the setting of multiple, conditional dependencies on jobs across platforms, and makes job log values available for other job commands
• Provides real-time status on jobs and job dependencies across platforms
• Provides a graphical illustration of job flows across platforms
• Offers an optional fault tolerant feature, so critical processes are not disrupted
• Saves time and money by eliminating the need to write scripts to set up job cross-dependencies
• Reduces training time and costs by providing a single solution for all your needs