z/OS Job Management

ActiveBatch Scriptless Scheduling Includes z/OS Job Management For Addressing Enterprise Requirements:

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Mainframe Job Mainframe Job Details

ActiveBatch offers the capability to execute batch jobs on an IBM z/OS system and integrate these jobs with other ActiveBatch jobs or job steps. ActiveBatch users are able to integrate, synchronize and trigger various job types on and across Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, OpenVMS as well as z/OS.

The ActiveBatch Job Library includes a “MainframeJob”, that allows users to organize and present jobs to the mainframe for execution. The Job Library represents an increasing list of applications and functions that can integrate many important job types developed outside of ActiveBatch with other jobs and workflows managed by ActiveBatch.

When the job step is run, ActiveBatch will initiate a local (i.e., Windows) job that will connect to the mainframe and submit the specified job to the z/OS Job Entry Subsystem (JES). At the completion of the mainframe job, any spooled output it has produced will be retrieved and written to the ActiveBatch job’s log file.

The user must supply three items of information to the job step: Job File, Host Address, and User Account. The “Job File” parameter supplies the path name of the file containing the IBM Job Control Language (JCL) statements necessary to run the job. “Host Address” is the IP address of the z/OS mainframe. “User Account” is the ActiveBatch User Account object used to supply the username/password required to access the IBM system.