3rd Party Batch Scheduler for PeopleSoft
Organizations that manage critical applications such as HR or their Supply Chain with Peoplesoft run many jobs both within the Process Scheduler as well as outside of the Peoplesoft environment. The scheduling facilities included in Peoplesoft are rudimentary and are not capable of managing workload outside of Peoplesoft making it challenging to get an end-to-end business view or to avoid manual processes that can cause outages.
ERP systems are the mainstream systems in most of the organization. Different ERP system and other system in the organization has to co-exist in the organization to support the business processes.
Business Need
- Integrate the PeopleSoft production environment with other systems
- Eliminate errors and processing delays
- Enhance the PeopleSoft built-in scheduler capabilities
- broad range of platform and application support integrate different system in the organization.
Some of the companies use Crontab - in the unix to schedule the jobs in the PeopleSoft and other applications. It will be common place to analyze and manage scheduling. This is platform dependent and doesn't support all the process types.
There are few Scheduling softwares - Which can manage the different batch processes across different platform and applications and server as a common point to manage and monitor the different business processes. Workflow of different business process can be created with these softwares/applications.
job dependencies, workload balancing, and event-based job execution can be managed easily.
3 - Third party Schedulers that are popularly used with Peoplesoft ERP systems.
1) Unicenter Autosys
2) Control - M
3) Tivoil Work schedular
There are Peoplesoft adapters so that these schedulers can connect to Peoplesoft system.
The Adapter connects to the PeopleSoft Enterprise database and collects the data it needs to define the task. The Adapter submits the task, waits for Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Process Scheduler to finish running the task, and retrieves the status changes in the PeopleSoft Enterprise database. The status can be viewed from the Schedular Operator Console and the PeopleSoft Enterprise Process Monitor.
The integration is accomplished by inserting PeopleSoft Enterprise job or process information into various database tables that emulate a submission through the PeopleTools GUI. Once the PeopleSoft Enterprise work has been scheduled, it is monitored to completion, reflecting status changes back to the Scheduler.
1 comments:
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Great post!
How is the workload distribution done by third party schedulers? Can these be integrated with PS Master Scheduler so that Master can handle the distribution?
Thanks!!
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