Whats the advantage over an external scheduling tool?
A lot of our customers use an external scheduler, and your question is a classical one. To make it simple, you tell a scheduler what to do, he does it, and when something wrong happen (program abend), you get a message and youre on your own to solve the issue. ASC decides what to do based on customizing, run it, and when something wrong happens, he fix the issue by itself. Might look an easy answer, so please look at the complete answer on this 15 minutes presentation at http://www.tjc-software.com/demos/ASC_Scheduler/en/ASC_Scheduler_en.php We only do data archiving. But archiving process is one of the most complex to process. You will not have to change yourscheduling when you change your archiving process or when systems volumes and performances change. The scheduler support team may help you set up some ASC parameters in order to block some fixed or variable days and time slots. The external scheduling tool will start the main ASC job. Then, the external scheduling tool will see al
