System and method for normalizing job properties

• US 7,984,443 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2005
• Issued: 07/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CA, Inc. (d/b/a CA Technologies) (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Computer Associates Think Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chen, Edward F., Padmanabhan, Arun, Ly, An V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tang; Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US11/186,308
• Publication Number:
  US 20060017954A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,190 Days
• Field of Search: 718/102, 718/104, 705/1, 705/9, 709/226, 358/1.15
• US Class Current: 718/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1207 resulting in the user being informed about print result after a job submission
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1259 Print job monitoring, e.g. job status
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server

Abstract

This disclosure provides a system and method for normalizing job properties. In one embodiment, a job manager is operable to identify a property of a job, with the job being associated with an operating environment. The job manager is further operable to normalize the property of the job and present the normalized property of the job to a user.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for providing a job manager, the computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions thereon for configuring one or more processing devices to perform a plurality of operations comprising:

receiving a request for at least one job property of a job operating on at least one operating environment of a plurality of operating environments;

identifying at least one adapter associated with the at least one operating environment;

receiving, by the at least one adapter, the requested at least one job property in a job scheduling nomenclature of the at least one operating environment, wherein the job scheduling nomenclature of the at least one operating environment is different from a job scheduling nomenclature of at least a second of the plurality of operating environments;

identifying at least one normalization profile associated with the at least one operating environment;

applying the at least one normalization profile to the received at least one job property, the result of the application being at least one value associated with the at least one job property, the at least one value being a normalized job property of the requested at least one job property in a normalized job scheduling nomenclature; and

providing the normalized job property to at least one user device.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, the plurality of operations further comprising:

receiving a request for at least a second job property of a second job operating on the at least a second operating environment;

identifying at least a second adapter associated with the at least a second operating environment;

receiving, by the at least a second adapter associated with the at least a second operating environment, the requested at least a second job property in the job scheduling nomenclature of the at least a second operating environment;

identifying at least a second normalization profile associated with the at least a second operating environment; and

applying the at least a second normalization profile to the received at least a second job property, the result of the application being at least a second value associated with the at least a second job property, the at least a second value being a second normalized job property of the requested at least a second job property in the normalized job scheduling nomenclature.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, the at least one job property and the at least a second job property comprising different values and the normalized job property and the second normalized property comprising identical values.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, the at least one operating environment and at least a second operating environment each executing different job scheduling systems.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 4, the at least one operating environment comprising a UNIX environment.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 4, the at least one operating environment comprising a Mainframe operating system.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 4, the at least one operating environment comprising a Windows operating system.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein the request for at least one job property is received from a first user and the normalized job property is provided to a user device of the first user, and wherein the request for at least a second job property is received from a second user and the second normalized job property is provided to a user device of the second user.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the at least one normalization profile is associated with the first user and wherein the at least a second normalization profile is associated with the second user.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the at least one normalization profile is associated with an enterprise wide policy.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the at least one normalization profile is associated with a customizable policy associated with a user.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, the job operating on the at least one operating environment selected from one of the following:

a command object;

a process object;

or

a task object.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, the at least one job property comprising a status property and the normalized job property selected from one of the following:

running;

failure;

waiting;

success;

cancel;

restart;

on hold;

late to start;

running late;

inactive;

or

unknown.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, the job operating on the at least one operating environment comprising one of a plurality of jobs, each job associated with one of the plurality of operating environments and associated with at least one normalized property.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, the plurality of operations further comprising sorting the plurality of jobs based, at least in part, on one of the normalized properties.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, the plurality of operations further comprising:

receiving a search request from a user, the search request associated with one of the normalized properties; and

identifying one or of the plurality of jobs based, at least in part, on the search request.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, the plurality of operations further comprising generating a plurality of metrics for the plurality of jobs, at least one of the metrics associated with one of the normalized properties.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the computer-executable instructions for configuring the one or more processing devices to identify at least one adapter associated with the at least one operating environment further configure the one or more processing devices to identify the at least one adapter from among a plurality of adapters, wherein each of the plurality of adaptors is associated with a different operating environment of the plurality of operating environments.

19. A method for normalizing job properties, the method executed by one or more processors configured to perform a plurality of operations comprising:

receiving a request for at least one job property of a job operating on at least one operating environment of a plurality of operating environments;

identifying at least one adapter associated with the at least one operating environment;

receiving, by the at least one adapter, the requested at least one job property in a job scheduling nomenclature of the at least one operating environment, wherein the job scheduling nomenclature of the at least one operating environment is different from a job scheduling nomenclature of at least a second of the plurality of operating environments;

identifying at least one normalization profile associated with the at least one operating environment;

applying the at least one normalization profile to the received at least one job property, the result of the application being at least one value associated with the at least one job property, the at least one value being a normalized job property of the requested at least one job property in a normalized job scheduling nomenclature; and

providing the normalized job property to at least one user device.

20. The method of claim 19, the plurality of operations further comprising:

receiving a request for at least a second job property of a second job operating on the at least a second operating environment;

identifying at least a second adapter associated with the at least a second operating environment;

receiving, by the at least a second adapter associated with the at least a second operating environment, the requested at least a second job property in the job scheduling nomenclature of the at least a second operating environment;

identifying at least a second normalization profile associated with the at least a second operating environment; and

applying the at least a second normalization profile to the received at least a second job property, the result of the application being at least a second value associated with the at least a second job property, the at least a second value being a second normalized job property of the requested at least a second job property in the normalized job scheduling nomenclature.

21. The method of claim 20, the at least one job property and the at least a second job property comprising different values and the normalized job property and the second normalized property comprising identical values.

22. The method of claim 20, the at least one operating environment and at least a second operating environment each executing different job scheduling systems.

23. The method of claim 22, the at least one operating environment comprising a Mainframe operating system.

24. The method of claim 20, wherein the request for at least one job property is received from a first user and the normalized job property is provided to a user device of the first user, and wherein the request for at least a second job property is received from a second user and the second normalized job property is provided to a user device of the second user.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the at least one normalization profile is associated with the first user and wherein the at least a second normalization profile is associated with the second user.

26. The method of claim 19, wherein the at least one normalization profile is associated with an enterprise wide policy.

27. The method of claim 19, wherein the at least one normalization profile is associated with a customizable policy associated with a user.

28. The method of claim 19, the job operating on at the least one operating environment selected from one of the following:

a command object;

a process object;

or

a task object.

29. The method of claim 19, the at least one job property comprising a status property and the normalized job property selected from one of the following:

running;

failure;

waiting;

success;

cancel;

restart;

on hold;

late to start;

running late;

inactive;

or

unknown.

30. The method of claim 19, wherein identifying at least one adapter associated with the at least one operating environment further comprises identifying the at least one adapter from among a plurality of adapters, wherein each of the plurality of adaptors is associated with a different operating environment of the plurality of operating environments.

31. A system for normalizing job properties in an enterprise comprising:

one or more processors configured to;

receive a request for at least one job property of a job operating on at least one operating environment of a plurality of operating environments;

identify at least one adapter associated with the at least one operating environment;

receive, by the at least one adapter, the requested at least one job property in a job scheduling nomenclature of the at least one operating environment, wherein the job scheduling nomenclature of the at least one operating environment is different from a job scheduling nomenclature of at least a second of the plurality of operating environments;

identify at least one normalization profile associated with the at least one operating environment;

apply the at least one normalization profile to the received at least one job property, the result of the application being at least one value associated with the at least one job property, the at least one value being a normalized job property of the requested at least one job property in a normalized job scheduling nomenclature; and

provide the normalized job property to at least one user device.

32. The system of claim 31, the one or more processors further operable to:

receive a request for at least a second job property of a second job operating on the at least a second operating environment;

identify at least a second adapter associated with the at least a second operating environment;

receive, by the at least a second adapter associated with the at least a second operating environment, the requested at least a second job property in the job scheduling nomenclature of the at least a second operating environment;

identify at least a second normalization profile associated with the at least a second operating environment; and

apply the at least a second normalization profile to the received at least a second job property, the result of the application being at least a second value associated with the at least a second job property, the at least a second value being a second normalized job property of the requested at least a second job property in the normalized job scheduling nomenclature.

33. The system of claim 32, the at least one job property and the at least a second job property comprising different values and the normalized job property and the second normalized property comprising identical values.

34. The system of claim 32, the at least one operating environment and at least a second operating environment each executing different job scheduling systems.

35. The system of claim 34, the at least one operating environment comprising a UNIX environment.

36. The system of claim 31, the at least one normalization profile being associated with an enterprise wide policy.

37. The system of claim 31, the job operating on the at least one operating environment selected from one of the following:

a command object;

a process object;

or

a task object.

38. The system of claim 31, the at least one job property comprising a status property and the normalized job property selected from one of the following:

running;

failure;

waiting;

success;

cancel;

restart;

on hold;

late to start;

running late;

inactive;

or

unknown.

39. The system of claim 31, wherein the one or more processors configured to identify at least one adapter associated with the at least one operating environment are further configured to identify the at least one adapter from among a plurality of adapters, wherein each of the plurality of adaptors is associated with a different operating environment of the plurality of operating environments.

40. A system for normalizing job properties in an enterprise comprising:

one or more processors configured to;

receive a request for at least a first job property of a job operating on a first operating environment of a plurality of operating environments, wherein the job scheduling nomenclature of the first operating environment is different from a job scheduling nomenclature of at least a second of the plurality of operating environments,

receive the requested at least one job property from the first environment in a job scheduling nomenclature of the first operating environment,

identify a first normalization profile associated with the first operating environment from among a plurality of normalization profiles, wherein at least a second normalization profile of the plurality of normalization profiles is associated with at least the second operating environment, and

apply the first normalization profile to the first job property, the result of the application being a value associated with the first job property, the value being a normalized job property of the requested first job property in a normalized job scheduling nomenclature, wherein when the second normalization profile is applied to a second job property of a job operating on the second operating environment, the result is the value, the value being a normalized job property of the second job property.