Many time I have seen some of our autosys jobs go into status: Pending Machine. What is the meaning of this status? And its generally the com job and not the box job that goes into this status (box...

We use AutoSys for job scheduling, and I find myself writing a lot of JIL (job instruction language) scripts to delete boxes and re-insert them due to small job changes (e.g. start time, etc.). Is ...

It is used on Stack Overflow all the time but I really don't understand it, nor can I get it to work. However it seems like a really good testing tool. How do I get the script to read in everythin...

What is the difference of putting job on hold and putting it on ice?

I need a very simple (hopefully) 1 liner command that reads in a file appends a string and outputs to a new file, without changing the original data. file1 string ------ ------ apple oranges banan...

In Autosys R11, I need job_b to run only if job_a succeeded within the last X hours. Apparently, R11 allows you to "set look back dependencies on job_a to only run if job_c has ran to S within X ho...

As per the Autosys manual, the following permission options can be configured in the JIL file: gx,ge,wx,we,mx,me Can someone please explain what each of these options represent? I tried searchi...

We have an Autosys job (let's call it job_a) that has a 3am time dependency and is also supposed to await successful completion of a mainframe job (job_m, which in our case is always successful). J...