Sheduling tools for Datastage

Lucky · Post by **Lucky** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:52 pm

Hi,

Can any one tell me What are the Sheduling tools available to Shedule the Datastage jobs except Cron.And which one is better to shedule the Datastage Jobs.

Regards
Luck

kcbland · Post by **kcbland** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:00 pm

There's no better or worse. Jobs are started thru the command line interface program dsjob. What starts that is up to you.

Enterprise schedulers are a good thing. Some do a lot and cost a lot more. Others do less and are cheap. Control-M, Maestro, an Autosys are the high-end products, but they all start DS jobs the same way: dsjob.

Lucky · Post by **Lucky** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:43 pm

Thank U Bland.

rkdatastage · Post by **rkdatastage** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:18 am

Hi KCBland

In which situation can i use third party scheduler.
when can i schedule jobs using ds scheduler or any third party scheduler.
what are the other advantages when we go for third party scheduler.

Thanks in advance

RK

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:22 am

cron and at are free. They're part of UNIX. That's the only advantage. Other than that it really doesn't matter. A third-party scheduler may fit the enterprise's other scheduling requirements better, but it's not an issue for DataStage.

palaniappan · Post by **palaniappan** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:04 am

In our Project we use Tivoli as the scheduler. The advantage of it over others is that you can add dependencies. But as said, Tivoli also triggers jobs through dsjob only.

Thanks, Pal.

rkdatastage · Post by **rkdatastage** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:18 am

Thanking you paricipants for your response

RK

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:16 pm

Hi,
If the third party tool mention above are used, during production it requires verly less knowledge of usage and access/ Previlage. Intervention to datastage is also reduced.
Also during DS application shutdown, thirdparty tool may help us know and identify the exact state.

-Kumar