Viya Jobs and Flows – Time-Based Scheduling Capabilities
A lesser-known component of SAS Viya's user interface is the Jobs and Flows application within Viya Environment Manager. The application lets users schedule jobs and combine jobs into flows with complex dependencies.
Earlier I showed how to facilitate event-based triggers using a job running every 5 minutes and a few command line actions. In this post, I'll outline the current time-based scheduling capabilities of the application.
When users have assets like SAS programs, SAS Studio Flows, Visual Analytics reports, etc. ready for scheduling, they'll see them in the Viya Jobs and Flows application. To schedule, users simply need to right-click the job and select "Schedule."
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This opens another window where users select a trigger.
Adding a new trigger, we see the time-based scheduling options available. Users can schedule their jobs daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and on specific dates using a list. As shown the prompts change with each selection to offer a host of appropriate options.
Once scheduled, jobs will execute according to their schedule until cancelled. Execution can be monitored within the application as well as with the command line interface.
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