Halcyon Software Releasing Advanced Job Scheduler V11 for IBM i

Halcyon
Software Inc. announced the availability of Advanced
Job Scheduler v11 for the IBM i platform.

It enables organisations to schedule
and track job streams across different IBM i systems to ensure that
business processes are running normally. This version is the first
job scheduler that can be run on an independent auxiliary storage
pool to maintain the availability of IBM i infrastructures and
protect against unexpected disruption. It provides an additional
layer of continuity assurance enabling organisations to meet
regulatory requirements.

According to Carole Chandler, sales and marketing director at Halcyon:"This iASP functionality was
developed in short timescales to meet the demanding job scheduling
requirements of major IBM users. It enables organisations to ensure
that key business processes run reliably, deliver significant cost
savings and provides a rapid return on investment."

It ensures that processes run at the
designated time and the iASP functionality enables it to be ported to
another system in the event of disk corruption or other unexpected
issues. For extra resilience, it can be moved to other locations to
minimise business disruption.

Data can also be imported from other
third party schedulers for the IBM i, such as Help Systems
Robot/SCHEDULE and organisations can convert to this solution using
its methodology for job migration. The software will deliver cost
savings through reduced maintenance fees, decreased manual processes
and the delivery of efficiencies for data centres that have outgrown
their existing job scheduler.

Halcyon operates a fair pricing policy
so that if an IBM customer increases the Commercial Processing
Workload of their hardware in the future, they will be protected
against additional licence and maintenance fees. Halcyon software is
not priced on a CPW basis.

It is available, either as a standalone
utility or as part of Halcyon’s Level 4 Operations Centre Suite
monitoring software. Customers already using Halcyon’s Advanced Job
Scheduler can upgrade to this latest release free of charge.