JPS63145530A - Job generating system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operating efficiency of a job generating system by checking the propriety of the received data to register a job together with its start time point to a job input queue and starting the corresponding job at the start time point. CONSTITUTION:The name of a job, a reserved time point and a destination receiving the information at the reserved time point are registered into a time reservation control table 19 and then informed to a time reservation means 16. The means 16 sets the reserved time point of the table 19 to a time device 17. Thus the job to be started is informed to a job input queue extracting means 14 from the means 16 at the reserved time point. Then the means 14 starts the relevant job based on the information registered into a job input queue control table 18. In such a way, the operating efficiency is improved with a job generating system.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a job generation method from a program being executed in an electronic computer.

(Conventional technology) Conventionally, '! II! The method of generating another job from the running program is a friendly method in which the job is started at the time when the job generation is requested. * Starting the job by specifying the start time from the running program It is not possible to make a reservation for a job, and the only way to reserve a job by specifying a start time is to use the job system.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In the conventional job generation method described above, it is not possible to reserve the start of a job by specifying the start time from the program being executed. If you want to start a job at a specific time based on job startup information created within the program, save the startup information on an external storage device, terminate the program, and use the job control language The disadvantage is that you have to make a new job startup reservation.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to generate another job from a running program, and when the running program issues a job generation request, the program specifies the name of the job to be started next.

and receives data including the start time of the job, checks the validity of the received data, and registers the job 2i+- along with the start time in a job input queue;
To provide a job generation method configured to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks by starting a corresponding job when the start time has been reached, and to eliminate the need for complicated operations associated with starting a job.

(Means for Solving the Problem) The job generation method of the present invention is configured so that all other jobs can be generated from the program being executed. a first means for receiving data specified in a program when a request for generating a job is sent and including a job name to be started and a job start time, and checking the validity of the received data and starting the job; The present invention comprises a ninth second means for registering a job in a job queue along with a time, and a third means for starting a corresponding job when the start time is reached. be.

(Example) Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing the flow of jobs generated according to the job generation method according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, in program A within job A,
A request is sent to start job Ct at 07:30 on the next day. This request causes the job input queue 21
Job C says, ``Start time is 07:30 one day later.

” and is automatically taken out from the job input queue 21 at 7:30 the next day, and job C is started. At this time, job A may be continuing or may have ended.

In addition, in program B in job B, start QycI
lt Specify 16:00 today, and job D (D occurrence t-
When job D is requested, job D is registered in the job input queue 21 in the form ``Start time is today at 16:00'', and is automatically retrieved and started at 16:00 on that day. Similarly to the above, when job D is started, job B may be continuing or may have ended.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the job generation method according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the present invention includes a job generation control means 12,
Job input queue registration means 13, job input queue extraction means 14, time reservation means 16, and time device 1
7, a job input queue management table 18, and a time reservation management table 19.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing job activation information stored in the job input queue management table 18. In FIG. 3, activation information is stored in the job input queue management table 18 by the job manual queue registration means 13, and retrieved by the job input queue extraction means 14, and the job is activated.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing information stored in the time reservation management table 19. When the reserved time is reached, the time reservation means 16 notifies the destination that the reserved time has been reached.

Next, according to the job generation method of the present invention shown in FIG.
This section explains how to specify the startup time from the running program and generate all jobs.

Program 11 including a command requesting job generation
(Hereinafter, it will be described as a program. In 2, the above command t
- At the time of starting, the job starting information group including Alj is notified to the job generating means 12. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the startup time may be stored as character data in the job startup information group. FIG. 5 shows data for starting a job at 16200 today, and FIG. 6 shows data for starting a job at 07:30 the day after tomorrow.

The job generation means 12 receives the notification from the program 11 and checks the validity of the data regarding the next startup time, and if the startup time is not valid data, it notifies the program 11 that the job generation request is not accepted. .

If the notified startup time is valid data, the job startup information including the startup time is notified to the job input queue registration means 13, and the job generation request is accepted by the program 11 and the friend vi- Notice. At this point, the program 11 moves on to executing the next command.

The job input queue registration means 13 registers the job start information including the start time notified from the job generation means 12 in the job input queue management table 18. In the time reservation management table 19, register the job name, reservation time (the above-mentioned start time), and notification destination (in this embodiment, the job input queue M1i output means 14) when the reservation time is reached. This is notified to the reservation means 16.

The time reservation means 16 sets the friend reservation time in the time reservation management table 19 and in the time device 17.

Through the above-described processing, the time reservation means 16 notifies the job input queue extraction means 14 of the job to be started when the reservation time is reached. Upon receiving the above notification, the job input queue extraction means 14 starts the corresponding job based on the next information registered in the job input queue management table.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, the present invention adds the startup time according to the startup information created within the program, and when generating another job, the program is terminated and the job is restarted. This has the effect of making system operation more efficient because jobs can be generated by simply specifying the start time from within a program without the need for troublesome control such as specifying it in a control language.

In particular, it takes a long time to start up a commercial online program? , in a program that is often left unattended, there is an advantage that a job can be easily generated as described above within the program.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating, in full chronological order, an embodiment for realizing the job generation method according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the flow of a job according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing details of the job input queue management table of FIG. 1. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing details of the time reservation management table of FIG. 1. FIGS. 5 and 6 are explanatory diagrams representing a group of job activation information t notified to job generation means from a program requesting job generation according to the present invention. 11...Program 12...Job generation means 1
3...Job input queue registration means 14...Job input queue extraction means 15...Job 16
...Time reservation means 17...Time device

Claims (1)

[Claims] a first means for receiving data including a job name to be started and a start time of the job specified by the program when a job generation request is sent from the program being executed; and the received data. second means for checking the validity of the job and registering the job in a job input queue with the start time; and third means for starting the corresponding job when the start time is reached. A job generation method configured so that another job can be generated from a program being executed.