Thursday, January 21, 2010
Display external jobs in PS Process Monitor
Many task schedulers exist to provide complex and powerful features that PS' own Process Scheduler cannot match. For example, IBM's Tivoli Workload Scheduler allows complex definition of jobs (=PS' Process) and Job Streams (= PS' Job), server and workstation setup, sophisticated dependency structure, cross platform support, scheduling calendar and beyond, in a GUI environment. You can define complex dependency in its graphical to drag and link jobs with ease. A drawback of this is these jobs are not displayed in Process Monitor. The following are the steps I took to display them in PS: