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Unit 2 Lab B

Summary​

To use the concepts presented in Units 1 and 2 to create a schedule that will jobs to manage the inventory for Congo Online Retail Inc.

Objective​

Congo Online Retail Inc. needs to run daily inventory checks every day of the week using a schedule called Congo Inventory Management.

To manage the inventory for each product, a special program must be run for each department:

  • Toys – "C:\scripts\CheckInvToys.EXE"
  • Electronics – "C:\scripts\CheckInvElectronics.EXE"
  • Clothing – "C:\scripts\CheckInvClothing.EXE"

Each product is assigned a Product ID Number. This ID Number will be used as an argument (-t) by the program for each job:

  • Legos - 11
  • Nerf - 12
  • Smartphones - 21
  • XBOX - 22
  • Levis - 31
  • Nike - 32

Each of the jobs must run every 30 minutes until 11:45 PM.

The programs read the database and generate order requests to purchase new items. At the end of the day, an Inventory Purchase Report job is ran that creates a report with the purchase results for each item. The report job is a UNIX job that will execute the following Start Image: /usr/local/labfiles/CheckInvPurRpt –t100

Lab Instructions​

  • Create a schedule called Congo Inventory Management
  • Add Documentation for the schedule.
  • Monday-Sunday are working days
  • Auto-build the schedule 7 days in advance for 1 day
  • Auto-delete the schedule for 7 days ago
tip

You can reference Unit 1 - Exercise 1 for steps on how to create a Schedule.

  • Create a Windows Job for each of the products in the introduction.
  • Name each Job the same as its product name
  • These jobs need to run on the SMATRAINING Machine
  • These jobs need to run as the SMATRAINING\SMAUSER User ID
  • Each of the six product jobs will run the program for its corresponding department.
    • Example: Legos will run "[[Path_Scripts]]\CheckInvToys.EXE" -t11
  • Add Documentation for each Job.
  • These Jobs must run Monday-Sunday
  • These Jobs must to run every 30 minutes when they have Finished OK
  • The latest run time of the 6 Jobs is 11:45 PM
  • Tag these 6 Jobs according to the product type (Toys, Electronics, or Clothing)
tip

You can reference Unit 1 - Exercise 3 for steps on how to create a Windows Job.

You can reference Unit 2 - Exercise 11 for steps on how to create a Looping Job.

You can reference Unit 1 - Exercise 5 for steps on how to add Tags

  • Create a Unix Job named Inventory Purchase Report
  • This job needs to run on the SUSEVM Machine
  • This job needs to run as the 0/0 Group ID/User ID
  • Call the program on the Start Image: /usr/local/labfiles/CheckInvPurRpt –t100
  • Add Documentation to the job.
  • This job needs to run Monday-Sunday
  • The Inventory Purchase Report requires the 6 Windows Jobs and must run after all runs have completed
tip

You can reference Unit 2 - Exercise 6 for steps on how to create a UNIX Job.

You can reference Unit 1 - Exercise 4 for steps on how to add Dependencies.

  • Build the Schedule for today and tomorrow
tip

You can reference Unit 1 - Exercise 6 for steps on how to build the Schedule.

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The jobs will complete and return to a waiting status until the repeating offset is qualified. The SAM.log can be checked to verify the jobs have executed successfully.

Workflow Layout​