1.1.3 Improving serviceability and maintainability by central management of batch job execution results

Maintainability of batch applications can be improved by automatically outputting job execution logs in the event of an error and managing such logs centrally.

In conventional open systems, management of batch job execution results is complicated because the results are not stored at one central location. JP1/Advanced Shell enables you to collect batch job execution results on a spool as job execution logs, and to manage them centrally. By using JP1/AJS - View, you can execute batch jobs on a periodic basis and reference the results by automatically executing job definition scripts.

Each job's execution results are output to a spool job directory under the spool directory. The following figure illustrates central management of batch job execution results.

Figure 1‒2: Central management of batch job execution results

For details about the output contents of the job execution logs, see 3.4 Job execution log.

Lastly, troubleshooting support enables you to handle problems through collection of various types of data, including job execution logs, system execution logs, and trace logs. For details, see 10. Troubleshooting.

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