The Schedule Manager plug-in for SAS Management Console is a user
interface that enables you to create flows, which consist of one or
more SAS jobs. A SAS job is any single command used to perform a batch
task. Each job within a flow can be triggered to run based on criteria
such as a date and time, the state of a file on the file system, or
the status of another job within the flow. The available scheduling
criteria depend on the type of scheduling server used.
The flows
can include jobs that were created in SAS Data Integration Studio,
SAS Marketing Automation, and SAS Web Report Studio. You can also
use Schedule Manager to deploy and schedule SAS jobs that are independent
of a specific SAS application.
Schedule
Manager is designed as a scheduler-neutral interface. When you create
a flow, you specify which scheduling server that the flow is to be
associated with. Schedule Manager converts the flow information to
the appropriate format and submits it to the scheduling server (the
Platform Computing server, an operating system scheduling server,
or an in-process scheduling server).