Does JAMS Support ABS? - ABSolutely!
JAMS now includes support for HP's ABS product.
There are three ways to interface JAMS with ABS:
- Do nothing. This is obviously the easiest approach. Since JAMS can help monitor
and manage generic OpenVMS batch jobs, you can simply let ABS submit jobs to OpenVMS
batch queues and JAMS will monitor them just like any other OpenVMS batch job.
- External Queue Manager.This approach uses the ABS$EXT_QUEUE_MANAGER.COM interface.
ABS still maintains the schedule but, instead of doing a standard VMS SUBMIT, it
does a JAMS SUBMIT when a job needs to run.
- External Scheduler.This approach leaves the driving to JAMS! It uses the
ABS$EXT_SCHEDULER.COM interface. When you create an ABS Request, a new JAMS Job
is created. After that, JAMS takes care of scheduling the job to run at the correct
time.
You can download the ABS interface here:
JAMS_ABS_ALPHA.EXE
to self extract on Alpha.
JAMS_ABS_VAX.EXE
to self extract on VAX.
These are self extracting OpenVMS executables. Just run one of them and look at
the JAMS_ABS_README.TXT.