Workload Automation terms have gone largely unchecked over the last few years. What was once simply referred to as “batch processing” has now evolved (or devolved) into a multitude of terms such as “application automation,” “runbook automation,” “resource automation,” and more. What are the differences? Largely, there are none! Whether you’re running Hadoop shell or pig Read More
Posted in Analysts In many businesses, there is often a deep seeded fear of change. Time and again, a business will dedicate resources just to support an inefficient system, thinking that the sunk cost justifies the effort. The funny part is that even the people who are hired to support a broken process will recognise that the system Read More
Posted in Uncategorized Let’s face it. Scheduling batch jobs with native batch automation tools isn’t easy, or flexible. Whether you’re wrestling with the complex format of cron, or dealing with the limited features in Windows Task Scheduler or SQL Agent, it is never as easy as 1-2-3. Let’s break down some real-world examples of scheduling batch jobs with Read More
Posted in Automate Smarter, JAMS, SQL, Windows Task Scheduler Data drives modern businesses. Whether you need to transfer files across your IT infrastructure or take data from one source and input it into another, your data doesn’t magically go from point A to point B. These critical business and IT processes are what’s known as ETL processes. In its most basic form, ETL stands Read More
Posted in Uncategorized Enterprise job scheduling is a must-have for modern enterprises. The pace of business continues to increase, the volume of data continues to grow, and new technologies make IT environments more complex all the time. New technology and new IT trends are changing the way enterprises are run. Enterprise job scheduling software may have once been Read More
Posted in Automate Smarter, Workload Automation Core Concept Jobs Sequences JAMS V7 introduces Sequences, a powerful tool to manage multi-job, multi-step workflows. Sequences have all the properties of an individual job, plus additional workflow functionality, such as nesting and parallel processing. The Sequences drag-and-drop editor provides utilities for uploading and downloading from file transfer servers, as well as file renaming and deleting. Soft Read More
Posted in JAMS, Uncategorized Once you’ve experienced the efficient cadence that goes along with smart workload automation, it’s difficult to imagine life without it. Employing best practices when you define a batch process can save you hours of time in the future. JAMS is designed to help enterprises maintain good habits across every batch process on every platform, but Read More
Posted in Uncategorized Most of the time, you run Windows batch files using the Command Execution Method, which replicates running them in a command prompt window (cmd.exe). But, what if you need to perform additional processing within the same job and you are running that batch processing in PowerShell? You have several methods to launch Windows batch files Read More
Posted in PowerShell The adage “time is money” certainly applies to modern business computing. Not so long ago, it was acceptable for a computer or a process to be offline for a few minutes or a few hours. Not anymore. High availability allows systems to continue operating after a failure over a given period of time. As your Read More
Posted in Automate Smarter, JAMS, Workload Automation Core Concept Microsoft PowerShell was created to simplify and automate Microsoft tasks by creating scripts and combining them with multiple commands. While this has helped cut down on some repetitive work, manually deploying PowerShell scripts can still be tedious. With a workload automation solution—like JAMS from Fortra—your PowerShell scripts can reach their full potential by bringing your Read More
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