Halcyon Software Announces Advanced Job Scheduler v11 for IBM i to Improve Business Continuity

Halcyon Software Announces Advanced Job Scheduler v11 for IBM i to Improve Business Continuity

PETERBOROUGH, England, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Adds iASP functionality to maintain availability of all your scheduled jobs

    Halcyon Software [http://www.halcyonsoftware.com ], the global leader in systems
management software, has announced the immediate availability of Advanced Job Scheduler
v11 for the IBM i platform. It enables organisations to schedule and track complex job
streams across different IBM i systems to ensure that business processes are running
smoothly. Uniquely, this latest version is the first job scheduler that can be run on an
independent auxiliary storage pool (iASP) to maintain the availability of IBM i
infrastructures and protect against unexpected disruption. It provides an additional layer
of continuity assurance enabling organisations to meet all regulatory requirements.

    According to Carole Chandler, Sales and Marketing Director at Halcyon Software: "This
iASP functionality was developed in short timescales to meet the demanding job scheduling
requirements of major IBM users. It enables organisations to ensure that key business
processes run reliably, deliver significant cost savings and provides a rapid return on
investment."

    Advanced Job Scheduler
[http://www.halcyonsoftware.com/products/advancedjobscheduler/index.html ] v11 ensures that
processes run at the designated time and the iASP functionality enables it to be ported
seamlessly to another system in the event of disk corruption or other unexpected issues.
For extra resilience, Halcyon's Advanced Job Scheduler can be moved to other locations to
minimise business disruption.

    Data can also be imported from other third party schedulers for the IBM i, such as
Help Systems Robot/SCHEDULE and organisations can convert to Halcyon's solution using its
reliable methodology for job migration. The software will deliver significant cost savings
through reduced maintenance fees, decreased manual processes and the delivery of greater
efficiencies for data centres that have outgrown their existing job scheduler.

    Furthermore, Halcyon operates a fair pricing policy so that if an IBM customer
increases the Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) of their hardware in the future, they
will be protected against additional licence and maintenance fees. Halcyon software is not
priced on a CPW basis.

    The new Advanced Job Scheduler is available immediately, either as a standalone
utility or as part of Halcyon's Level 4 Operations Centre Suite monitoring software.
Customers already using Halcyon's Advanced Job Scheduler can upgrade to this latest
release free of charge.

    About Halcyon Software

    Halcyon Software is a global leader in multi-platform systems management software
solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of monitoring critical business systems,
core applications and processes. They support IBM enterprise-class systems, including
IBM(R) i and AIX(R), as well as Windows(R) and Linux(R) platforms. Halcyon solutions are
used world-wide by large multi-nationals, corporate and public sector data centres as well
as small to medium sized organisations to ensure that vital IT systems, business
applications and services are available 24/7. With regional offices in Peterborough UK,
Philadelphia USA, and Melbourne Australia, Halcyon also has an international network of
partners and distributors supporting Europe, the Americas and Asia Pac. For further
information please visit http://www.halcyonsoftware.com

    Collette Severn, Halcyon Software, Tel: +44(0)1733-234995

Halcyon Software

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