Using Appworx to Schedule Jobs in
Banner
Joyce Feimer - IT Services Analyst
and Eric Raznick- Director, ITS
San Mateo County Community College District
Appworx @ SMCCD
•About 27,000 students
Appworx @ SMCCD
• Live with Banner 7 - Student, HR, Fin Aid,
Finance,
• Other products: Xtender, SARS, Ad Astra,
Hyperion (Brio), etc..
• Using Banner since version 1!
• Now using IBM AIX (Unix)
Appworx @ SMCCD
• Why we wanted an automated Job
Scheduler…
– Had been on VMS for many years
• Really liked “single threaded queues”
• Didn’t have a lot of background in Unix shell
scripts (cron is icky!)
• Wanted something designed to work with Banner
• Ability to monitor the jobs as they are running
• You don’t have to feed it!
Appworx @ SMCCD
Type of jobs we run from Appworx:
•Nightly feeds (sfrfasc, sfpfaud, tgrfeed, tgrappl, furfeed, etc..)
•Hourly Shell scripts (stats, moving files around)
•External Application Extracts
•Warehouse jobs
•Daily Statistical Reports
•“Clean-up” scripts
•Creation of “static web pages”
•Baseline Banner jobs!
D.log 2>&1
#end Colby
#
# Ted - PPRD no longer on LUCY since ban7 go LIVE!
# Clone PPRD on Sunday using the most resent backup
##00 07 * * 0 /usr/local/admin/backups/rman_dbdup0_pprd.shl
>/usr/local/admin/lo
gs/rman_dbdup0_pprd.log 2>&1
#
#
# Check for posting errors
5,25,45 8-19 * * 1-6 su - operfin -c "/usr/local/admin/chk_posting.shl
PROD" >/v
ar/tmp/chk_posting.log 2>&1
#
# Restart Finance SleepWake to load output files into database for
review
00 11,15 * * * su - operfin -c "/usr/local/admin/restart_slwk_db.shl
PROD" >/var
/tmp/restart_slwk_db.log 2>&1
#
# Stop the Finance SleepWake processes
00 22 * * * su - operfin -c "/usr/local/admin/stop_slwk_db.shl PROD"
>/var/tmp/
Creating a Module
Define the library
Define Program Type
Define Output
Define Prompts
Edit Prompts
Edit Prompts
Define Schedule
Chains
Expanded Chain
Predecessor - Success
Predecessor - Complete
Frequency of Runtimes
Frequency setup
Daily Reoccurring Jobs
Create Exceptions
Ad Hoc Submission
Enter Prompts & Options
Submit job to run
Successful Finish
Output Files
Output - Log files
Emailed Output
Unsuccessful Finish
Log File of Failed Job
Viewing Output Files
• We licensed a small program called RptView
(Report Viewer) for Windows from Drec
Software
• Looks like “greenbar”!
• Contact Info:
– http://www.drecsoftware.com/
Output – List files
Important Things to Know…
• If you copy the database – be careful…
• In Chains - consideration of the
“Predecessor” Actions are really important!
(Success, Failure, Complete, etc)
• Does not use the path statement the same
way – you need to make sure you are
pointed at the right version of executables.
Questions???
Suggestions???
Many thanks from Eric & Joyce
raznick@smccd.edu
feimer@smccd.edu