Workload automation sounds simple at its surface. A business consumer (e.g., a department head or a senior executive) may state requirements in “if this, then that” form:
If a department budget file arrives, validate it and send to the ac...
Designing and deploying batch job schedules can be complex and intimidating. Coordinating dependencies, balancing CPU and disk resources, and tracking down errors can be time-consuming and error-prone.
But after design, how do you deploy your wor...
A scheduled batch job might not run on time (i.e., be “late”) for many reasons - for example:
the scheduler might be down for an extended period of time, during which one or more jobs would normally have run.
there is not enough concurrency avail...