Job network setup method, job network execution method, job management system, management terminal and program

• US 7,237,005 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2003
• Issued: 06/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Honda, Masanori, Miyake, Shigeru, Kuroda, Takaki, Inoue, Taro, Mikami, Shogo
• Primary Examiner(s): Dharia; Rupal
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gillis; Brian J.
• Application Number:
  US10/412,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20040049531A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,538 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/210, 709/203, 709/220, 709/221, 709/202, 709/205, 709/212, 718/105, 718/100, 718/101, 717/162
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4806 Task transfer initiation or dispatching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A job network setup method in a job management system which controls execution of jobs according to a set job network and which allows setup for data transfer from a preceding job to a succeeding job comprises enabling specifying such that data can be transferred from the preceding job to the succeeding job by linking a standard output of the preceding job to a standard input of the succeeding job when setting the succeeding job in setup of the job network.

Claims

1. A method for executing a job network in a job management system which controls execution of jobs according to said job network and which allows setup for data transfer from a preceding job to a succeeding job, said method comprising:

displaying a screen for specifying a file name or a job name of said preceding job for a standard input of said succeeding job upon setting said succeeding job in configuration with said job network;

executing said preceding job according to said job network;

writing content of a standard output of said preceding job to a standard output file;

inputting content of a specified file corresponding to said file name to said standard input of said succeeding job if said file name is specified for said standard input;

inputting content of said standard output file of said preceding job corresponding to said job name to said standard input of said succeeding job if said job name is specified for said standard input, wherein said job network is set up such that said preceding job is executed by a first computer and that said succeeding job is executed by a second computer which is connected communicably to said first computer, and wherein said first computer writes said standard output of said preceding job to said standard output file;

sending by said first computer contents of said standard output file of said preceding job corresponding to said job name to a third computer which is connected communicably to said first computer and said second computer if said job name is specified for said standard input of said succeeding job;

sending by said first computer contents of said standard output file corresponding to said file name to said third computer if said file name is specified for said standard input of said succeeding job;

receiving by said third computer said contents of said standard output file or said standard output of said preceding job and sending them to said second computer; and

receiving by said second computer said contents of said standard output file or said standard output of said preceding job and inputting said contents of said standard output file or said standard output to said standard input of said succeeding job.

2. A method for executing a job network in a job management system which controls execution of jobs according to said job network, said method comprising:

displaying a screen for specifying a file name or a standard output of a preceding job for an environmental variable referenced in common by a succeeding job;

executing said preceding job according to said job network;

writing content of a standard output of said preceding job to a temporary file;

updating said environmental variable according to content of a specified file corresponding to said file name if said file name is specified for said environmental variable;

updating said environmental variable according to content of said temporary file if said standard output of said preceding job is specified for said environmental variable, wherein a first computer executes said preceding job and writes said content of said standard output to said temporary file, and a second computer which is connected communicably to said first computer executes said succeeding job;

sending by said first computer said content of said temporary file to a third computer which is connected communicably to said first computer and said second computer if said standard output of said preceding job is specified for said environmental variable;

sending by said first computer said content of said specified file corresponding to said file name to said third computer if said file name is specified for said environmental variable;

receiving by said third computer said content of said specified file or temporary file and sending it to said second computer; and

receiving by said second computer said content of said specified file or temporary file and updating said environmental variable according to said content of said specified file or temporary file.