Hi Yiannakis,

You might want to look at TWS - Tivoli Workload Scheduler (or Maestro,
as it was formerly, and commonly still is known - it used to be owned by
a company called Unison).

It allows for centralised scheduling and monitoring of schedule and job
status, allowing for advanced interdependencies and all manner of clever
stuff.

Here's a link >>>
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/scheduler/

I don't know about cost, and it might be quite heavy to use *just* for
TSM backups scheduling, but certainly worth a look I'd suggest?

Rgds,

David McClelland        
Management Systems Integrator   
Global Management Systems       
Reuters 
85 Fleet Street 
London EC4P 4AJ 
E-mail  david.mcclelland AT reuters DOT com     



-----Original Message-----
From: Yiannakis Vakis [mailto:yiannakis.vakis AT ITD.BANKOFCYPRUS DOT COM] 
Sent: 02 March 2004 11:28
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Third party schedulers


I'm not that impressed by TSM's scheduling capabilities.
Is anyone using a third party scheduler under Windows that has a minimum
intelligence to:

a. Schedule scripts on other servers
b. Have interdependencies between schedules
c. Cancel schedules depending on timeout values
d. Doesn't cost anything .....   :-)))))      (just joking)

If so, could you please recommend one ?
Thanks
Yiannakis


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