batch schedulers

[Neil Wildenmann]

I am looking for a batch scheduler to run on our Unix system. We are running
HP/UX 10.2. We are also using progress databases for our ERP package. Any
suggestions for a good batch scheduler.

[Evan Day_1]

Well, there's always cron ;)

We use Maestro (from Tivoli Software) to run all of our scheduled batch
processing on production systems. I'm not directly involved with operations,
but it seems to do a fine job. They seem to be changing the name to Workload
Manager, but a search for Maestro on their web site comes up with lots of hits.

-Evan

[Atif Malik_2]

Another good job-management tool is Autosys from Platinum Technology.

[Dave Wherry_1]

I agree with using Maestro. I used it on a previous
job. Due to time contraints we just moved all of our
jobs out of cron and into Maestro. It gave us better
tracking of run times and completions and failures.
The next phase, when time allowed would be to start
using some of Maestro's recoverability features, job
restart and such. Take a look.

[Neil Wildenmann]

Thanks for the response, Has anyone heard of or used a batch scheduler called
COSBatch from OSM?