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JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3

JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3

Automate and optimize your operations with JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 toreduce costs and achieve highly reliable business systemsJP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 (JP1/AJS3) has the flexibility to automatically run your business operations linked with various othersystems, such as cloud services and web systems, as well as the scalability required to handle busy periods. With these features in place, you willbe ready to adapt to changes in your business structure.

Automate various operationsWhether a particular business operation needs to be performed on a regularschedule or in response to a specific event, JP1/AJS3 can help youautomate it. In addition to operations executed on a single server in a pre-determined order (such as calculating payroll and aggregating sales data),you can also automate operations that require multiple servers, spanningdifferent sites. For example, you can automate a series of tasks that involvecommunicating data among sales offices, HQ, and factories, from processingreceived orders to issuing shipping instructions. JP1/AJS3 is also capable ofautomatically aggregating data on sales and inventory into distributablereports. Automating these kinds of day-to-day tasks reduces human error,improves work efficiency, and speeds up your business.

Product name

JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 - View

JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 - Manager

JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 - Agent

JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 - Agent Minimal Edition*

JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 - Definition Assistant

JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 for Enterprise Applications

Products required for the main functions in this brochure

Integrate with other systemsWith JP1/AJS3, you can link your business systems to other web systems orcloud services. For example, you might download information about areceived order from the Internet to your order management system, or use acloud service to assign tasks. Do you need to link your system with others, orto run tasks either from your own customized management windows or byusing scripts in languages like Python or Ruby? The provided REST API*gives you the tools you need. Furthermore, because JP1/AJS3 can beaccessed via a web browser, you can execute and monitor your operationsfrom any location, on or off site.

* Representational state transfer API

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• In this brochure, JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 refers collectively to JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 - View, JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 - Manager, JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 - Agent and JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 - Agent Minimal Edition.

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* This Agent product allows you to execute a maximum of ten jobs per day.

You can define SAP ERP jobs to be executed and monitored in JP1 simplyby copying the jobs that are already defined in your SAP ERP systems.

ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning* Requires purchase of JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 for Enterprise Applications.

This allows you to easily and efficiently link ERP systems with your othersystems, so that all of your systems operate seamlessly, as if they were one.

Automate operations that are executed in a SAP ERP system*

MainframePC server UNIX server ERP server

Recoveryjob

ERP job

ERP job

ERP job

Mainframejob

UNIX/Linuxjob

Windowsjob

ERP job

Easily link ERP jobs with other systemsJobnetOperate multiple

systems as one for optimal efficiency

Link and automatically execute a variety of operations

Office A

Orderreception

management

Mainframes

Office BVirtual environments

FactoryInventory

management

Shipmentmanagement Servers

(Supports various OSs)

Web GUIVarious interfaces

Portable device

Orderreception

management

Dataaggregation

Cloud services

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Note: • JP1 support services are available under a separate contract.• These products are also available through the purchase of subscriptions, which allow you to use products and support services for a period of one year.

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JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3

Visualize the flow of tasks Define tasks by creating a flowchart

Jobnets are complex structures that define the order in which multipleprocesses (or jobs) are executed and the relationships between thoseprocesses, but with JP1, creating these definitions is as easy as making aflowchart. You can even define jobs or jobnets that are to be executed onlywhen a process ends abnormally, or integrate jobnets that have differentexecution schedules into a single jobnet. For example, a jobnet to beexecuted only on weekends can be defined as part of a jobnet that isexecuted every day. Visually checking the flow of tasks makes it easier toboth manage jobnets and identify the relationships between them.

Check the task execution schedule before starting operationsBefore putting a task execution schedule into operation, you can checkwhether the schedule for a jobnet has been correctly defined. The window fordoing so is very similar to the one used for checking the task executionschedules that are currently in operation. If a defined schedule is incorrect,you can make the appropriate changes to the schedule definition before theschedule is applied. This helps to prevent unexpected problems during actualoperation.

Other useful functions to make your operations even more efficient Schedule automatic switchover to new tasks

When editing tasks, there is no need to stop tasks that are currently inoperation. Instead, you can schedule a switchover to a new jobnet. Byregistering a new or modified jobnet in advance, you can automatically switchover to the new set of tasks at a date and time you specify.

Use on-screen task information in reportsOn-screen jobnet definitions and expected and actual results can be outputto a file to be checked offline or to be used in a report. This flexible functionallows you to select the items that you want to output and the file format thatbest meets your needs (CSV, Microsoft Excel, or PDF).

Create detailed schedules that are a perfect fit for your operationsCreate a calendar of business days and non-business days, and then definescheduling rules such as the execution start time and processing cycle. JP1automatically calculates the execution schedule based on these settings,helping you achieve detailed, flexible scheduling that matches your businessoperations.

Jobnet Editor

Flexibly adapt to increases in the number of tasksIf you want to execute a job on multiple servers, you can collect thoseservers into a group you name, and then define that group as the job-execution destination. The execution of jobs will then be automaticallydistributed among the grouped servers. With this approach, you can easilyand flexibly handle increases in the number of tasks, as well as additions andmodifications to the execution-destination servers.

Edit Annual Calendar

Output example of a documentin jobnet flow format

Business server A(agent)

Business server(manager)

GROUP1

When GROUP1 is specified as the job-execution destination, job execution is automatically distributed among the servers in that group.

Monthly Schedule

Monthly Schedule

Business server B (agent)

Business server C (agent)

Output example of a document in map format

Check the statuses of executed tasksDashboard

Monthly Schedule

Jobnet Monitor

Efficiently monitor executed tasksCheck the overview for the status and progress of tasks that are beingexecuted. The overview shows you the progress of task execution, when thetask is expected to finish (based on past results), and how much time isremaining. In addition to general information about all tasks, you can alsocheck a chart indicating the progress or status ("Ended normally", "Inprogress", "Ended abnormally", etc.) of individual jobnets to quickly identifythose that have ended abnormally or those that are in a particular state ofinterest. JP1 makes it easier for you to execute and monitor your tasks,because you can use a web browser to pause and resume jobnets even fromoutside your company.

View a list of task execution results and execution schedulesJP1 provides convenient list displays both for the results of executed tasksand for the tasks that are scheduled to be executed. These lists can help youinstantly identify jobs that did not start or end at the expected time. You canalso add, edit, or delete task execution schedules from the provided windows.

Understand job execution statuses at a glanceEven for complex jobnets that include a large number of jobs, you canchange the display so that only jobs executed on the current day arehighlighted. Furthermore, each job icon changes color based on theexecution status of that job ("In progress", "Complete", "On hold", "Delayed",etc.), making it easy to check the job's progress or status. You can alsopause, re-execute, and forcibly end jobs from the GUI.

Control the execution of tasks triggered by specific eventsIn addition to executing tasks at scheduled times or at preset intervals, youcan also specify tasks to be executed in response to specific events, such aswhen a particular email is received or a certain file is created or modified.Alternatively, you can specify settings to automatically execute a task afterthe completion of a set of other tasks has been confirmed. These are justsome of the many ways in which JP1 can automate your operations.

Collect and apply job definition information in a batch*JP1 makes it easy to collect, modify, and apply job definitions. In particular,you can efficiently edit job definitions in Microsoft Excel by using functionssuch as Find and Replace All. This work can be split among multipleoperators, with each person maintaining the definitions for the operations heor she is in charge of. By consolidating the definitions updated by multiple

Example of collecting, editing, and applying job definition information

Editing task A

(1) Collect

(3) Apply

(3) Apply

Editing task B

Operator handling task A

Operator handling task B

Divide work between more than

one person

Definition information management template

Job definition information

Job definition information

(2) Edit

* Requires purchase of JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 - Definition Assistant

operators into a single file, you can then import and apply those definitions allat once. Working in Excel is especially useful, for example, when you want tochange the names of development servers into those of production serversand then to apply all of those changes to the production environment in asingle operation.

Click an icon to check the details on the scheduled execution of a task.

Tasks in operation

Automatic switchover to new tasks

Each icon represents a single process. Create jobnets by connecting the icons in the order in which they are to be executed.

You can define business days and non-business days to match your particular operations.

The task overview shows information such as the progress of tasks that are being executed, the expected end times for those tasks, and error information.

Job execution schedules can be verified, added, edited, and deleted.

Only jobs that were executed on the current day are highlighted.