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The latest updates for JobQGenie are now available for download from the members section of the website. These updates significantly improve the performance and data collection capabilities of the product and should be installed by ASAP.
Job Queue content is crucial when a role swap or system recovery has to be performed using a High Availability product, however none of the High Availablity products on the market today provide this vital piece of the solution.
When a role swap is required using one of the High Availability Products the data and objects should have been correctly replicated to the target system in preparation for the role swap. Usually in a planned event the user will have been able to quiesce the production system prior to the role swap, allowing all of the jobs sitting on the job queues or actively running to complete sucessfully. In an unplanned event this may not be the case, requiring the user to analyze the data on the target system to determine what if any data has to be removed before re-submitting any outstanding jobs. The HA products provide no information about the jobs runnig on the production system to the target system so determining what the steps required to bring the applications into a known state can be a daunting task even for experienced staff should the need arise.
JobQGenie solves this problem by capturing the information about for jobs as they load, run and complete storing this information for replication to the remote system. Should any jobs require re-submitting the information collected can be used to re-submit the jobs with the same parameters and environment variables. In a situation where the source system failed and jobs were mid cycle you can use the tools provided by JobQGenie to identify the data position and take relevant actions to bring the data to a state where the job can be re-submitted again.
We have many customers who carry out role swaps with jobs sitting on job queues which have to be reloaded as part of the roleswap, with JobQGenie this is a fully automated process which reduces error. One customer has thousands of jobs to re-load every time they carry out a role swap which constantly exposed their role swap window prior to installing JobQGenie.
User Statements
“I dont even bother to check the status anymore, it just works!”
“The system was pretty pushed last night with over 300,000 jobs in the overnight batch which ran for less than a few seconds each, JobQGenie ran without a problem and took very little CPU in doing so”.
“We didn’t need JobQGenie as part of the role swap because the job queues were empty, but the support staff really liked the ability to do a review of the collected data for any jobs which ended abnormally before the role swap occurred”.
“We wish we had bought this prior to the last system failure, even though we had our HA tool running we could not switch to the target because the job queues were filling up and not processing fast enough, basically the system was dying slowly! Eventually we had to halt the user activity before manually reloading all of the jobs and switching to the target system. We lost a lot of money!”
Features
- Collects all of the information required to re-submit a job
- Low overhead even in high activity environments
- Tools for job to data mapping for recovery
- User friendly interfaces and commands
- Installs as an IBM Licensed Program Product
Download
You can download the product for a free 30 day trial from our website.
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