Date:         Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:14:26 -0400
Reply-To:     Tony <hztangli@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Tony <hztangli@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Schedule SAs jobs on Unix without LSF

On Fri, 30 May 2003 07:59:16 -0400, Michael L. Davis
<michael@BASSETTCONSULTING.COM> wrote:

>Hello Tony and other SAS-L Friends,
>
>When you license WA, you get an OEM license to LSF at no extra cost.  Any
>other solution to *dependent* scheduling is probably going to require
>hand-coding or licensing another software product.  So why not LSF?
Please
>explain.
>
>- Michael "Mad Doggy" Davis
>
>At 04:21 AM 5/30/2003 -0400, Tony <hztangli@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>We have SAS/Warehouse Administrator and  a bunch of sas jobs(many of
>>source codes automatically generated by WA).We don't have LSF,only have
>>AT ,CRON available on Unix and a lot of these sas jobs have dependence
>>between each other.How to schedule all these jobs?Could someone tell me
>>all the possible solutions(better with some examples) and what's the best
>>one and why?
>>Thanks and any help would be appreciated
>>Tony
>
>Michael L. Davis
>Vice President
>Bassett Consulting Services, Inc.
>10 Pleasant Drive
>North Haven  CT  06473-3712
>E-Mail:  michael@bassettconsulting.com
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Hi Michael,
That is because nobody in IT department has ever used LSF before.They
might be suspicious of the tool or have other concerns(for example,too
much resource consumption).
Does this answer your question?
Thanks,
Tony