JPS61145641A - Input data management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To grasp automatically the arrival of input data by providing a management dictionary of the input data, managing and storing automatically the arrival of the input data and using a monitor to retrieve the management dictionary. CONSTITUTION:A management dictionary (Dic)9 generating/updating parameter (b) is inputted to a Dic9 from devices 1-5 such as a console or a terminal device via a Dic generating/updating section 8 to attain dynamically the management of routine input data and non-routine input data. A notice monitor section 10 supervises the Dic9 at a prescribed time interval to retrieve a job of application where all required input data reach. When the job is retrieved, the job name is given to a job start section 11 via an interface 14. When the job name is given, the job start section 11 reads a job control language of the said job stored in a job control language storage file 12 and starts it.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] Technical Field The present invention relates to an input data management method, and more particularly to an input data management method for managing the arrival of input data inputted via input devices and lines installed in a data processing device. Regarding.

In recent years, as processing power has improved and prices have declined, data processing devices have come to be installed not only in places where professional operators are present, but also in general offices. Under such circumstances, when operating a data processing device, it is difficult in terms of cost to assign experts such as data managers as in the past. On the other hand, the number of applications processed by data processing devices continues to increase year by year, the types of input data also increase, and input data management functions are becoming increasingly important.

The role of the data administrator remains essentially the same whether it is a traditional EDP department or a data processing device installed in an office. In other words, it is necessary to manage a ledger of input data necessary for applications processed by a data processing device, and furthermore, to organize and store the input data that arrives daily with the ledger, as well as processing applications and processes. Business is required. Furthermore, it is checked whether all the application data that has reached the processing date has arrived, and if it has arrived, the execution of the application is prompted. If the data has not arrived, the other party is prompted to send the data.

When such work is performed manually using a ledger, it is complicated and causes omissions and delays in processing.

Furthermore, in recent years, a lot of data is collected through lines.
Therefore, it has become impossible to manage it manually.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to automatically manage and store the arrival of input data by providing a management dictionary for input data, and to monitor and search this management dictionary to automatically check the arrival of input data. It is an object of the present invention to provide a management method for input data which enables the data processing apparatus to be easily operated even without the presence of a specialized pig manager.

The input data management method according to the present invention includes a management dictionary file that stores a dictionary for managing input data, and a management dictionary file that stores a dictionary for managing input data and determines the arrival of data by commands from a program and an operator. Equipped with a means for notifying the dictionary of the arrival of this data and controlling it to be recorded, and a means for monitoring the contents of the management dictionary, and controlling the start of a specified job when all input data has arrived based on the results of this monitoring. It is characterized by being made to do.

1 emperor 1 Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail using the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, in which a console 1. Terminal device 2. Program 3. The card reader 4 and the floppy disk device 5 are respectively connected to the management dictionary creation/update section 8 and the notification transmission section 6, and are connected to the management dictionary creation/updating section 8 and the notification transmission section 6, and receive instruction parameters b and input for creating and updating the management dictionary 9 that manages input data. It is possible to input each parameter a that serves as a data arrival notification.

By inputting the parameter b for creating and updating the management dictionary 9 from these devices 1 to 5 to the management dictionary 9 via the management dictionary creation/updating section 8, it is possible to manage only regular input data. It also becomes possible to dynamically manage non-routine input data.

The notification transmitting unit 6 receives a parameter a indicating the arrival of input data from the devices 1 to 5, so it checks this and then sends it to the notification receiving unit 7 via the delivery unit 13. Information indicating the arrival of input data from the notification receiving unit 7 is stored in the management dictionary 9.

The notification monitor unit 10 monitors the contents of the management dictionary 9 and searches for jobs for which all necessary input data has arrived. The job is transferred to the delivery unit 14
The information is supplied to the job starting unit 11 via the job, and the job control language 1 and 2 corresponding to the job are started.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the operation flow of the device shown in FIG. 1. Prior to this operation, devices 1 to 5 use various parameters b to input data collection destination, collection period, 1 hour, and input data to the management dictionary 9. Register attributes of processing applications, etc.

After that, when the input data arrival notification parameter a is input from the devices 1 to 5 to the notification transmission unit 6, the notification transmission unit 6 performs a grammatical check to see if this parameter a is written in an acceptable format. If this cannot be decoded, the process ends at this point since no further processing can be performed.

If it is decipherable, the input data arrival parameter is sent to the notification receiving section 7 via the delivery section 13. The notification receiving unit 7 records the notification contents in the management dictionary 9 in a stack structure, but in this case, a correspondence table between jobs and input data is stored in the management dictionary 9 in advance.
Since the input data is created in the table, a flag indicating that the corresponding input data has arrived is recorded at a predetermined location in this table.

The notification monitor unit 10 monitors the management dictionary 9 at regular time intervals, and has a function of searching for application jobs for which all necessary input data has arrived. When this job is searched for, the job name is sent to the job starting unit 11 via the delivery unit 14.

When a job name is passed, the job starting unit 11 reads the job control language of the corresponding job stored in the job control language storage file 12 and starts it.

Normally, data collection is done by an operator creating a program, but this program includes a notification transmission unit 6.
By adding a function to send a parameter to a computer and a function to start this notification transmission section 6, after data collection is completed, an input data arrival parameter a is created within the program, the notification transmission section 6 is started, and this parameter a is added. By passing it on, the collection of input data can be managed automatically without human intervention.

Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically manage the arrival of regular and non-regular input data, which not only makes the operation of the data processing device more efficient, but also prevents processing omissions and input data. This has the effect of eliminating processing delays due to confirmation delays.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flow chart explaining the operation of the blocks in FIG. Explanation of symbols of main parts 6...Notification transmission section 8...Management dictionary creation/update section 9...
... Management dictionary 10 ... Notification monitor section 11 ... Job starting section

Claims (1)

[Claims] A management dictionary file that stores a dictionary for managing input data, and a management dictionary file that determines the arrival of data based on program and operator commands, notifies the management dictionary of the data arrival, and records it. an input data management method comprising: means for controlling the contents of the management dictionary; and means for monitoring the contents of the management dictionary, and based on the monitoring results, a designated job is started and controlled when all input data has arrived. .