To all:

We have finally made a decision and purchased the Job Scheduler tool from Tidalsoft. We are installing it to work with Lawson (on a Unix platform - Apps/Env both are 8.0.3).

We are also going to be scheduling Windows/Visual Basic jobs.

I'm currently working on getting it working with Lawson.

If anyone has any experience with this product, please let me know. I have experience with other schedulers (one which I used with Lawson at a former employer), but not this particular one.

I'll let you know how it goes (several people have posted about job scheduling software with Lawson).

- Laura

Here's a link that's handy for configuring Lawson jobs to run with wtsubmit, jqsubmit and lacobrts.

http://www.schronce.net/lawson/Executing_Jobs.txt

So far so good!

Yes - I know those commands quite well from Unix scripts I've written that execute those commands and from a previous employer that had a job scheduler.

Tidal actually wrote a Lawson Solution for us and we just call the solution and pass a couple parameters and it will use wtsubmit, jqsubmit or lacobrts depending on what we tell it to do.

It captures the Lawson Job log within the job scheduling software itself so you don't have to look into the Lawson job scheduler to see the log output.

We've also written a script to "version" lawson reports within the Lawson Print manager so the reports aren't overwritten every time the job is executed. We can define how many versions of each report to keep by the job name.

If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.

Thanks,
Laura