Community Post: List of IBM i Job Scheduling Software

This post is an in-process centralized shared list of all organizations or individuals who provide job scheduling software on the IBM i platform. Feel free to pull the information from this post into other posts to disseminate to the broader IBM i community.

Here’s the starter list of individuals and groups who provide job scheduling software on the IBM i platform.

IBM i Job Scheduling Software Providers

• Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc., Enterprise Job Scheduler
• Halcyon Software, Advanced Job Scheduler
• HelpSystems, Robot/SCHEDULE
• IBM, IBM Advanced Job Scheduler for I
  • IBM also includes the free Work with Job Scheduler entry utility (WRKJOBSCDE) that is included with the IBM i operating system
• IBM, Tivoli Workload Scheduler
• MVP Systems Software, Jams Enterprise Job Scheduling
• Revsoft, Rev Scheduler
• SMA Solutions, OpCon
• SoftLanding, AUTOMON for iSchedule v100 (formerly Autojob), also associated with Unicom Global’s Macro4 division, AUTOMON for iSchedule

Note: although I’m listing these offerings as IBM i job schedulers, many of these items also provide job scheduling on and for different operating systems. Check with each individual package for determining what their cross-platform job scheduling capabilities are.

If you have a site you want to nominate for this list or you know of a site I may have inadvertently left out, please email me at joe@joehertvik.com.