Interfacing with Third-party Scheduling Products

Event-driven reporting capabilities provided by products such as UNISON's Maestro or CA's Unicenter can be integrated with Lawson application jobs. Lawson provides two utilities, wtsubmit and jqsubmit, for executing jobs created using third-party scheduling tools. These utilities are able to make use of all services provided by the Lawson Job Scheduler.

The wtsubmit waits for a job to finish running before giving control back to the calling script or shell. This utility can only be used with single-step jobs.

The jqsubmit utility does not wait for a job to finish running before giving control back to the calling script or shell, and can be used with single- or multi-step jobs.

Prior to Environment Release 7.0.6, integration with third-party products was performed through the lacobrts utility. For more information, see Executing a Lawson Job Using the lacobrts Utility. This utility is still available for submitting jobs for clients who wish to use it, though wtsubmit and jqsubmit are easier to use and usually serve the need better.