SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide

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SAS Scheduling Overview
About SAS Scheduling 193
About Schedule Manager in SAS Management Console 193
About Scheduling Metadata 194
Overview of Scheduling Metadata 194
About Scheduling Server Definitions 194
About SAS Batch Server Definitions 195
About Deployment Directory Definitions 195
About Job and Flow Metadata 196
About Platform Product Suite for SAS 196
About Configuring and Using SAS Scheduling 197
About SAS Scheduling
The SAS scheduling tools enable you to automate the scheduling and execution of
SAS jobs across your enterprise computing environment. The scheduling functions are
provided through the following tools:
3 the software components of Platform Product Suite for SAS, including Platform
Flow Manager, the Process Manager Server, and Platform Load Sharing Facility
(LSF)
3 the Schedule Manager plug-in for SAS Management Console. This tool provides an
interface between SAS software and the Platform tools. It can also interact with
your operating system scheduler.
The scheduling tools are tightly integrated with SAS applications, including SAS
Data Integration Studio, SAS Web Report Studio, and SAS Marketing Automation. The
tools are especially designed to handle the scheduling and execution of batch jobs that
are generated by these applications. You can also use the tools to schedule SAS jobs
that are independent of a specific SAS application.
About Schedule Manager in SAS Management Console
The Schedule Manager plug-in for SAS Management Console is a user interface that
enables you to create flows, which consist of one or more SAS jobs. Each job within a
flow can be triggered to run based on a date and time, the state of a file on the file
system, or the status of another job within the flow.
The flows can include jobs that were created in SAS Data Integration Studio, SAS
Marketing Automation, and SAS Web Report Studio. You can also use Schedule
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