JAMS

More than just scheduling

Kommentare: We have been very happy with the JAMS product and the Team @ MVPSI overall; the product is very stable and the vendor team is very responsive with issues and helping the customers.

Vorteile:

We have found the flexibility of the JAMS product to give us a great breadth of use cases. Beyond just doing conditional job execution; we actually use it for workflow orchestration on larger processes where a job can monitor other jobs and continue or fail the larger process.

Nachteile:

There have been growing pains shifting from the V6.5 to V7.x version of software so much changed in the UI/UX that getting use to the new front end has been tiresome. The installation process has also been problematic over the years; but appears to be more stable in the most recent version.

Using JAMS for 8 years

Kommentare: We heavily use JAMS and love using the product. We run about 30,000 jobs a day and have a production support team of 10 people that manage the jobs.

Vorteile:

The access to the data - we run SQL queries to easily manage the data - the table structure is easy to understand and is accessible.

Nachteile:

Sometimes it takes a little time to find a job in complex workflows.

Excellent idea for software, clients, and scheduling. However, very buggy and not well executed

Vorteile:

The idea of having JAMS scheduler handle jobs and monitor them is fantastic and is the best solution so far for batch jobs while managing 20-50 servers.

Nachteile:

Software is extremely buggy, web client is almost unusable, constant updates, clients sometimes crashes leaving an entire system useless until restarted, sometimes updates fail wasting company time in reverting state

JAMS helps IT do their job

Kommentare: Our team has used JAMS extensively to manage a number of different tasks/processes on several different servers and different operating systems (unix/windows) with a number of different methods such as scripting (bash/powershell) and SSIS calls and calling URL endpoints as well. This is a very flexible tool and it works well for our IT services team.

Vorteile:

Jams is a pretty full featured job schedule tool. Jobs can be scheduled to run on repeated (hourly) or one time. Jobs can be tired or chained if you want as well. The interface is well done so you don't spend a lot of time finding what you need to modify or update a job. My favorite feature is the email log for completed or errored jobs, so you can get right to work - from your email tool by viewing the log.

Nachteile:

I have found that the search/query tool doesn't default to the current day when I'm looking for a job. I realize that some users want to keep the query as they left it - thus the need to keep the previous dates and query string. Perhaps a "reset to default" button to clear everything up and get the query tool ready to use would be helpful.

JAMS ease of use, ease of understanding

Kommentare: Very positive. It is a great tool for a variety of teams to use.
At our site, the non-production JAMS instance is used to insure the jobs / setups work as expected BEFORE being deployed to Production.
And once in Production, Setups & Jobs can be visually monitored by the general public.
A variety of notifications on a job's status can be sent automatically, thus eliminating the need to involve valuable "production" resources to answer routine inquires of process owners. Win-win!

Vorteile:

JAMS has an amazing amount of processing capabilities available. However, the support team is an invaluable part of the product. The support team has been fantastic in helping me to understand what capabilities are available and exactly how to use them. Response to on-line chat requests are answered very quickly. They offer to set up GoToMeetings for hands on assistance. And, on the rare occasion the technician doesn't know the answer, he will find the answer for you! Amazing! They take customer support seriously! The product is tremendously robust too!

Nachteile:

It can seem a little clunky when using the UI. Sometimes the response time in viewing the detail screens is slow. However, it is difficult to know if it is the JAMS product or our environment that is slow in rendering results.

JAMS Scheduler From HelpSystems

Kommentare: As I stated above, I have been using JAMS since 2009 and here it is now 2019. JAMS is easy to install and once up and running JAMS just keeps on running. JAMS is extremely stable. The JAMS Support Staff is very knowledgeable and respond if needed very quickly. JAMS Support also resolves any issues quickly and resolves the issue the first time.

Vorteile:

I am the JAMS Administrator at one of the largest Banking Financial Institutions Worldwide. We have been using JAMS Scheduler since 2009 in our Credit Card Division and Mortgage Division scheduling and running thousands of batch reports worldwide each month with no issues, automatically running all jobs on time as scheduled and as requested. Another vendors scheduler system used in other divisions is called AutoSys. Once Line of Business partners see JAMS they ask: How do we convert from AutoSys to JAMS.

Nachteile:

CONS would be just that during major upgrades from one release version to the next higher release version, ex: version 6 to version 7 migration, the new version is NOT backwards compatible, thereby causing to have to perform the Big Bang approach to upgrading to the newest release.

Center of our universe

Kommentare: Using JAMS at last 3 sites I've worked. There is no other competitive product in the price range. And should be included as part of any Direct Commerce system install.

Vorteile:

Interfaces with virtually everything we have running, Windows Server, Linux, iSeries and is the central part of the production environment. Proved to be a great catalyst for developing in PowerShell.

Nachteile:

Clients tend to lose connection with server as it does not refresh consistently (v6), sometimes frustrating that other sessions will show different job statuses. Needs a frequent restart, not just a simple refresh.

JAMS is a must...

Kommentare: Fantastic !!!

Vorteile:

The software is fantastic in ease of use, reporting and job creating. However, the support is second to none .. I cannot stress how fast and effective their support team is, I haven't seen anything even close.

Nachteile:

I cannot think of much that I don't like, upgrades are a snap, support is amazing, GUI is amazing.

JAMS is a Great Enterprise Workload Automation Solution

Kommentare: JAMS is a very useful and powerful tool, great enterprise solution.

Vorteile:

Centralized management enterprise workload automation. Easy setup jobs for different tasks. User friendly interface.

Nachteile:

JAMS might can provide more user access control.

Best automation software for processing inbound/outbound files.

Kommentare: Great files automation at all levels. Great dependency checking. The new Workflows are a great addition and very useful for full scale "thinking" by the flow or processes.

Vorteile:

Very configurable with PowerShell and many other languages.

Nachteile:

When I am in the system and I undock my laptop, the software loses it's connection to the server. So you have to close the software and reopen it. But that is the least of my worries.

JAMS Product Review

Kommentare: First and foremost JAMS helped us moving our windows based scheduled jobs which involved manual efforts. Since moving 100+ jobs to JAMS we no longer have to manually monitor the jobs. Overall, we're very pleased with the product and their customer support is exceptional.

Vorteile:

Ease of use, Robust functionality, built in features like connecting to Oracle EBS, FTP, SFTP, FILE COPY to name a few.

Nachteile:

So far none. Though we are on version 6.5 which lacks some reporting features but moving to 7.x version soon. And hopefully we will have what we want.

Excellent Workload Automation Scheduler Solution

Kommentare: Excellent quality and reliability. The cost makes it a very simple option to go with considering what the software offers. A true Enterprise class workload automation solution.

Vorteile:

The scheduler is very flexible and reliable as well as scalable. We use it for all our ERP transmissions and automation tasks and it's very easy to use! We also found it to be AWS cloud friendly.

Nachteile:

The software could probably be even more intuitive for non technical people. Perhaps offer a forms interface that follows a workflow. To be fair, I don't think there isn't anything out there that offers this though it would be very helpful as it is a need.

Jams: How to automate OpenVMS...and more

Kommentare: Core functionality was interfacing with an Alpha server running on OpenVMS software. We needed a way to better automate the processing. Also important was to get notifications if things went wrong, and for a non-programmer to quickly resolve issues that might come up. We did not want them looking through batch files and trying to figure out what failed and when.

Vorteile:

One of the few programs on the market that integrates well with OpenVMS via a native agent.

Nachteile:

Debugging of scripts is more burdensome than it could be, but I like the audit capabilities where you can roll back to previous versions of a job very easily.

JAMS is a legitimate scheduling system for our scheduling needs

Kommentare: We are using JAMS Scheduler to schedule business process in Higher Education, including job scheduling with Ellucian Banner as our ERP. As now configured, JAMS has been working seamlessly without interruption.

Vorteile:

We were able to transition from much more scheduling systems to JAMS for a small fraction of what our annual costs had been.

Nachteile:

JAMS Scheduler has had some technical bumps that have required careful testing and sometimes clever workarounds. However, JAMS Support has been incredibly helpful and proactive to work with in identifying issues, assisting us with workarounds, and promptly addressing bug fixes. Concerning the bumpts, JAMS has improved immensely during the past 18 months that we have owned the product.

Enterprise Automation at its Finest

Kommentare: Very impressed with the support and pre sales teams technical knowledge. Top notch team and product.

Vorteile:

Easy to use. Nice web client. Easy to maintain, setup, update and on-board new users. This tool literally saves our organizations hours each day. Endless opportunity to add automation around the organization.

Nachteile:

Windows only can make it tough in a mixed environment but we do just fine with it.

A Fully capable task scheduling system

Kommentare: Sadly at this time, after spending a year attempting to deploy, JAMS is not the product for us.
Not that it could not be, just simply that it is not a seamless replacement to our existing product and
the amount of time to convert (re-write) all the current tasks. Variables and passing arguments to chained procedures may be possible under JAMS, however the non-capital investment and general lack of understanding of the issues at hand caused this deployment to fail.

Vorteile:

Both Client-Server and Web app interfaces available. Supports task scheduling on Windows and Unix/Linux platforms

Nachteile:

Uses old programming utilities and modules. Sales in-correctly represented the ability to seamless migrate to the product from our current job scheduler.

JAMS review

Kommentare: Very Good product, pity about the license issue with copy jobs

Vorteile:

intuitive use an most features that we need very good support

Nachteile:

that a simple copy of the jams log is regarded as a job for license purposes

Jammin with JAMS

Kommentare: scheduling application and development jobs for the entire University

Vorteile:

we able to schedule systems job with ease

Nachteile:

interface even though it has been updated is a little lackluster

Great implementation for automating processes

Kommentare: JAMS is the centerpiece for our organization in completing automated processes and deployments to production environments. Easy to use, excellent visibility and audit trail.