Job Stream, a Definition

The term "job stream" refers to a suite of batch jobs that run periodically. Most organizations have multiple job streams. For example,

  • You'll have a job stream that contains batch jobs that run nightly
  • You'll have a different job stream that contains the hourly batch jobs
  • You'll have a different job stream that contains the batch jobs that extract data for your data warehouse
  • Etc.
Fastpath:

Refer to Batch Process Dependencies for a description of sample job streams.