Systems Management
VMS Job Management
Product Overview
VMS Job Management for OpenVMS is a workload automation tool that helps you schedule, manage, and monitor recurring tasks across your OpenVMS environment. Whether you're running daily reports, backups, or complex business-critical operations, this tool ensures that jobs are executed at the right time, in the right order, without manual intervention.
By automating repetitive tasks and coordinating complex job dependencies across clustered or remote systems, Job Management simplifies system administration, improves reliability, and reduces the risk of errors. It’s designed to support both individual users and enterprise IT teams by providing centralized control with full visibility into job execution and history. All features work seamlessly across OpenVMS systems, locally or remotely.
Benefits
- Saves time, reduces manual errors, makes training easier and faster with a standard and well-documented setup.
- Prevents jobs from being lost: your jobs run in the correct order and on schedule, get restarted automatically, and there is full transparency and traceability.
- Eliminates the need for manual oversight, freeing IT staff for strategic tasks.
- Optimizes system resources by scheduling jobs to run at a time when the system is least busy, avoiding bottlenecks.
Latest Version
| Alpha | Integrity | X-86 |
|---|---|---|
| R3.1 | R3.1 | V3.1 |
Features
- Automates the execution of repetitive jobs, such as system maintenance, reporting, and business operations.
- Supports simple one-line commands or complex command files containing multiple steps.
- Runs jobs based on customizable schedules, dependencies, and event triggers. You can define conditions like job order, pre- and post-execution commands, or notification settings.
- Maintains all job definitions and criteria in a central database, so you can edit job settings without resubmitting them.
- Allows you to adjust job behaviour for a single run or apply changes across future runs.
- Enables advanced job chaining and synchronization, coordinate a job with up to 16 others, even across different nodes or clusters.
- Provides automatic load balancing and node failover in OpenVMS Cluster environments to ensure job continuity during system outages.
- Tracks all job activity and stores historical data for auditing, troubleshooting, or performance analysis.
- Sends job completion alerts via OpenVMS Mail, broadcast messages, or OPCOM. Notification settings can be customized per job.
- Generates standardized or custom reports showing job status, history, and system performance over time.
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