1 About Scheduler Services

Scheduler Services automates behind-the-scenes work that is necessary to sustain various enterprise applications and their operations.

Scheduler Services helps the applications to control unattended background jobs program execution.

Note:

To use this feature, Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure Extension Pack (OFS AAIEP) is required. For more details, refer OFS AAIEP Release Notes.

The functionalities in Scheduler facilitates you a graphical user interface and a single point of control for the definition and monitoring of the background executions.

• Batch: Date and time-based execution of the background tasks based on a defined period during which the resources were available for batch processing.
• Job: A batch job is a piece of a program meant to meet specific and business-critical functions. The program is a RESTful API used in a batch.
• Job Dependency: When the batch job is submitted, it is moved to the job queue until the system is ready to process. If, the job queue contains many job waiting to be processed, the system process the job based on the chronological order or by priority.
• Schedule: Batch jobs are used to automate the tasks that require to be performed on a regular basis but don’t necessarily need to occur during the day or have an employee interacted with the system are batch schedule. Jobs that happen on a regular basis are incorporated into batch schedules.
• Monitor: Scheduler provide options to monitor your executions using a web-browser. It provides real-time feedback on the status of the current encoding job and lists the jobs pending in the batch. You can abort or restart the service when required.