JPH06103233A - Remote batch processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve processing efficiency by attaining distribution processing covering plural center devices by one remote batch processing. CONSTITUTION:A terminal equipment 1 is connected to center devices 2 to 4 through a communication line to constitute a network system. The equipment 1 transmits data to the device 2. When it is necessary to execute the distribution processing of the received data with the devices 3, 4, the device 2 outputs processing requests 1, 2 to the devices 3, 4, receives and merges the processing results and then writes the merged result in a storage medium. When the processed result is requested from the equipment 1, the processed result is read out of the medium and transmitted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote batch processing method in a network system, and in particular, a remote batch processing in which processing efficiency is improved by distributing processing in a center device and expansion and flexibility of processing are ensured. Regarding the scheme.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A network system constructed by connecting a terminal device having an information transmitting function and an information receiving function and a center device having an information transmitting function and an information processing function and an information processing function by a communication line. In the conventional remote batch processing method in, the following processing methods are adopted.

That is, in response to the information processing request from the terminal device, the center device which has received the processing request,
Information processing is performed, and the processing result is written in the storage medium of the center device. Then, in response to the processing result request from the terminal device, the processing result is read from the storage medium of the center device and transmitted to the terminal device. A conventional remote batch processing method is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-22
It is described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 09584.

[0004]

In the above-mentioned conventional remote batch processing method, in order to perform the processing related to a plurality of center apparatuses, it is necessary to repeat the remote batch processing as described above for the number of center apparatuses. However, there is a problem that processing efficiency is poor.

Further, since only one central apparatus can perform processing in one remote batch processing, it is not possible to deal with distributed processing which has been rapidly increasing in recent years, and there is a problem that processing is not expandable and flexible.

The object of the present invention is to solve the above problems, and it is possible to perform distributed processing over a plurality of center devices by one remote batch processing, and to improve processing efficiency. To provide a remote batch processing method.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, a terminal device having an information transmitting / receiving function and a plurality of center devices having an information transmitting / receiving function and a processing function are connected by a communication line. In the remote batch processing method in the network system configured by, when the processing request is transmitted from the terminal device to the first center device of the plurality of center devices,
The first center device notifies the terminal device of acceptance confirmation of the process, transmits a process request to one or more other center devices, and outputs the process result in each of the center devices requested for the process. The first center device receives the processing results, arranges and integrates the received processing results, writes the processing results in the storage means, and in response to a request for the processing results from the terminal device, the first center apparatus stores the processing results in the storage means. It is characterized in that the processing result is read and transmitted to the terminal device.

[0008]

According to the information input from the terminal device, the processing in the center device to which the information is transmitted is activated. On the extension of the processing of the activated first center device, a request for information processing and a processing result are transmitted between the center device and one or more other center devices, and each processing result is It is organized and integrated in one center device and written in the storage medium. The processing result is read from the storage medium in response to the processing result transmission request from the terminal device, and is transmitted to the terminal device.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram of a terminal device for realizing the remote batch processing of the present invention,
Central processing unit 21, auxiliary storage unit 22, communication control unit 2
3, a display 24, which is an input / output device, a keyboard 25, and a printer 26, and a communication line 27.
It is connected to the center device via. FIG. 3 is a software configuration diagram of the terminal device, which includes a system control program, a communication control program, a business application program, and an input / output / screen control program.

FIG. 4 is a hardware configuration diagram of a center device for realizing the remote batch processing of the present invention.
Central processing unit 41, auxiliary storage device 42, and communication control device 4
3 and is connected to a terminal device and other center devices via a communication line 44. FIG. 5 is a software configuration diagram of the center apparatus, which is composed of an online control / database control program, a communication control program, a business application program, and an input / output control program.

FIG. 1 is a processing sequence diagram of the remote batch processing method of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a terminal device 1
2 has the hardware configuration shown in FIG. 2 and the software configuration shown in FIG. 3, and the center devices 2, 3 and 4 each have the hardware configuration shown in FIG. 4 and the software configuration shown in FIG. A network is constructed by connecting the terminal device 1 and the center devices 2, 3 and 4 with the communication lines (27, 44) described above.

The remote batch processing method of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. 1 by using an example in which it is applied to a network system. Data is input from the terminal device 1 (step 101), and the data is transmitted to the center device 2 (step 102). The center device 2 receives the data (step 201) and transmits a confirmation of acceptance of the data to the terminal device 1 (step 202). The terminal device 1 receives the acceptance confirmation (step 103) and displays it on the display 24 (step 104). As a result, the operator of the terminal device (user of the network system)
Can immediately confirm that the entered data has been accepted.

In the center device 2, after the acceptance confirmation is transmitted, the processing contents of the received data are spread over the center devices 3 and 4 (that is, when the information to be searched exists in both the center devices 3 and 4). Distributes processing (step 203) and transmits processing request 1 to the center device (step 204). The center device 3 executes the process after receiving the process request 1 (step 301) and transmits the process result 1 to the center device 2 (step 30).
2).

After receiving the processing result 1 (step 205), the center device 2 writes the processing result 1 in the auxiliary storage device (DK) 42 (step 206). Further, after the processing is distributed, the processing request 2 is transmitted from the center apparatus 2 to the center apparatus 4 (step 207). Center device 4
Then, the processing is executed after receiving the processing request 2 (step 401), and the processing result 2 is transmitted to the center device 2 (step 402).

After receiving the processing result 2 (step 208), the center device 2 writes the processing result 2 in the auxiliary storage device (DK) 42 (step 209). Further, in the center device 2, the processing result 1 and the processing result 2 are read from the auxiliary storage device (DK) 42, the data are integrated (merged) (step 210), and the auxiliary storage device (DK) is obtained as the final processing result. ) 42 (step 21)
1).

When a processing result transmission request is transmitted from the terminal device 1 to the center device 2 (step 105), the center device 2
Then, the request is received (step 212), the corresponding processing result is read from the auxiliary storage device (DK) 42 (step 213), and transmitted to the terminal device 1 (step 214). The terminal device 1 receives the processing result (step 106) and displays the result (step 10).
7).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the operator of the terminal device 1 operates in the first stage from the input of data to the reception of acceptance confirmation, and the operation from the request to send the processing result to the reception of the processing result. All you need to do is a two-step operation. Therefore,
Even in a process that requires a long time spanning a plurality of center devices, the terminal device 1 can be used without being occupied by the process.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram relating to the organization and integration of data items in the backbone system of a certain company to which the remote batch processing method of the present invention is applied. An application example of the remote batch processing method of the present invention in a core system of a certain company will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 6.

At a certain company, a payroll calculation system is constructed in the center device 3, and as shown in FIG. 6, the payroll detail information 61 is stored in a database with employee codes as keys for all employees. Further, in the center device 4, a personnel management system is constructed, and as shown in FIG. 6, for all employees, information 62 such as a department code of a department to which the employee code is a key is held. Further, the center device 2 builds an accounting system.

At this time, in the accounting system, when the labor cost is to be aggregated for each department, the remote batch processing method of the present invention is applied, and as shown in FIG. By merging the data, the required information (salary statement information for each department / personnel cost) can be obtained. Further, as shown in FIG. 1, except for the first-step operation and the second-step operation, the terminal device 1 is not occupied by the process, so that the processing efficiency is improved. Further, since it is not necessary to have duplicated data in different center devices and all the data can be processed as if they were stored in one center device, the expandability and flexibility of the process are improved.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a terminal device requests a processing request to one center device, the activated center device is sent to another one or a plurality of center devices. A processing request is transmitted to the center device, the processing result from each center device is received, the one center device organizes and integrates the data, and the result is written in the storage medium. Since it is configured to read from and transmit to the terminal device, distributed processing can be performed over a plurality of center devices by one remote batch process, and even if a center device related to the process is added, remote processing can be performed. Since it can be handled by batch processing, it improves processing efficiency and expands processing.
Flexibility can be secured.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a processing sequence diagram of a remote batch processing method according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram of a terminal device for realizing remote batch processing of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a software configuration diagram of a terminal device.

FIG. 4 is a hardware configuration diagram of a center device for realizing remote batch processing of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a software configuration diagram of a center device.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram relating to the organization / integration of data items in the core system of a certain company to which the remote batch processing method of the present invention is applied.

[Explanation of symbols]

 21, 41 Central processing unit 22, 42 Auxiliary storage device 23, 43 Communication control device 24 Display 25 Keyboard 26 Printer 27, 44 Communication line

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A terminal device having a function of transmitting and receiving information,
In a remote batch processing method in a network system configured by connecting a plurality of center devices having an information transmission / reception function and a processing function with a communication line, a first center among the plurality of center devices from the terminal device When the processing request is transmitted to the device, the first center device notifies the terminal device of the acceptance confirmation of the process, and also transmits the processing request to one or more other center devices, The first center device receives the requested processing results in each center device, sorts and integrates the received processing results, and writes them in the storage means.
In response to the processing result request from the terminal device, the first
In the remote batch processing method, the center device reads the processing result from the storage means and transmits the processing result to the terminal device.