Job Scheduling

[dwandbi]

As you all know, Datastage comes with the add-in component "Director" for job scheduling. Why is it necessary to go for third party tools like "Autosys" or any other job scheduler.

your answers will be helpful

thanks,
Tom

[kcbland]

Because it's just an interface to At on Windoze and cron on Unix. That is not the same as an enterprise scheduler, which has interdependent process scheduling, escalation activities, monitoring, graphical interface, etc. Cron/At run a task at given time with an optional repeating interval.

If you don't know what features enterprise schedulers have, comparing cron/At to one is like comparing a calculator to a computer.

[sb_akarmarkar]

One can monitor all jobs created on different tools is being shedule from one window.