SAS Schdeduler Usage

[LAP]

This is just a general question about using SAS Scheduler

We have a 'approved' tool that users can use to schedule jobs and have decided to limit access to the SAS scheduler in management console to general users. Management Console is considered an Admin tool and therefore not available to general users.

Just wondering how other sites are doing this.   Do you allow users access to the SAS MC for scheduling or do you rely on other process automation tools to run scheduled jobs?  

Thanks

[SASKiwi]

We allow non-admin users who have a scheduling business need to have access to SAS Management Console. IMHO, if you trust SAS users to be able to schedule, then you should also trust them to use SMC. I understand it is possible to limit what users can do in SMC via metadata permissions, but you at least have to give them the tool in the first place. 

[Kurt_Bremser]

We started with scheduling long before SAS had built-in options for this.

Scheduling through the IT-wide system (Control-M) was done only by the SAS administrators, but SAS users also had the option to schedule their programs by logging on to the SAS server and using cron.

[sangavis37]

We limit the access to schedule manager in management console through a group 'Scheduling Users', associate the scheduling user account (service account) to this group, add scheduling role and add people who needs access to schedule jobs through the schedule manager as members of the group.