1.2 Example of application to a business operation
You can apply JP1/Advanced Shell to the following type of business operation.
In the case of an operation that involves many transactions in an online system during the daytime and totaling of the transactions at night, you can develop and execute batch jobs that obtain totals, including sales figures, number of products sold, and inventory updates. You can also develop and execute batch jobs for obtaining rolling totals, such as daily, monthly, and term-end processing, as well as batch jobs that have specific purposes and that are used for special occasions.
The following figure shows an example of JP1/Advanced Shell operation (for obtaining daily operation totals)
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To run JP1/Advanced Shell:
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Start daily operation and perform transactions involving products.
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The open infrastructure product updates the various sales data.
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Daily operation ends and JP1/AJS issues instructions to execute job definition scripts automatically at specified times.
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JP1/Advanced Shell executes job definition scripts to process the various sales data.
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JP1/Advanced Shell outputs the execution results of the job definition scripts.
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The manager can obtain information, including totals and changes in product sales, based on the execution results.