OpCon Terminology

Schedule: A Group of Jobs that make up a business process

• Schedules must be created before any Jobs can be defined

Job: A Job in OpCon is a task or activity

• A Task, for example, could be to run a program on a remote Machine, transfer files between Machines, or run another Schedule

Calendar: A List of dates to help provide flexible scheduling around holidays and any other non-working days

Frequency: Defines the pattern of days on which each Job will execute

Machines: A Representation of an Agent (LSAM) in the database

Documentation: Almost everything in OpCon has a placeholder for Documentation

Build: The Process of copying Master Schedules and Jobs that qualify for specified Dates to SAM’s Active Daily List Processing Tables