Batch job scheduling guidance

[Jim_Ogilvie]

Hi,

We have SAS Analytics Pro running on a Windows server - all stable, running for 3 months now.

I currently have 3 ETL jobs, each triggered by a scheduled *.bat file.

I have these jobs running one at a time, each of them is accessing a different database.

I will soon need to add more ETL jobs and wanted to know if I could move things around to have jobs running at the same time and if I did this, are there any gotcha's I should I look out for or advise you could give.

Thanks in advance

Jim

[LinusH · Accepted solution]

The gotcha's I can think of is

• Resources: physical, and check your SAS global options for MEMSIZE/SORTSIZE
• Job dependencies - reading/updating the same tables

If you start to get plenty of jobs, it could be wise to investigate in using a scheduling tool so can get a better overview/control of your environment.