A new, modern GUI, detailed operator privileges, a sophisticated approval system and much more: Discover the new features of BICsuite Release 2.11: New frontend A new frontend based on NodeJS was developed from scratch. The browser-based application has been designed as a single page application. This eliminated a significant downside of the Zope-based frontend. Using it is now also considerably more fluid and pleasant due…
Decentralized workload automation plays a key role in successful digital transformation. Decentralization is an important factor in a company’s dynamic and ability to grow. Moreover, decentralization has a positive effect on the agility, motivation and willingness of teams and managers to take responsibility. The trend towards decentralization in modern corporate cultures is taking place in parallel with the trend towards decentralization in IT: monolithic mainframes…
Although, as we’ve seen, the run program on itself is a powerful feature, it is not without risks. Code injectionis the appropriate keyword here. Just imagine a run program like the following has been configured: run program = /bin/bash -c “ls -l $DIRSPEC” And that DIRSPEC is a parameter of type parameter. That means that if someone has operating privilegesfor that job, that person is…
With the new release 2.10, BICsuite and schedulix have become even more user-friendly. In Release 2.10 released on 21/05/04, these changes and additions have been made: Zope 4 / 5 Web GUIZope 4 / 5 based on Python 3 is now officially supported for the BICsuite / schedulix Web GUI. Zope 2 based on Python 2 is still supported but will be deprecated in the…
Under certain circumstances, the submission of a batch or job to BICsuite or schedulix is prevented with the error message “Ambigous resolution”. In this article we will show you how this error message can occur and how you can define dependencies so that they can be clearly and unambiguously processed in your Workload Automation System. Example 1 Let’s start with a very simple example. Someone…
We love challenges and invite you to test us. Our timescheduling functionality is extremely powerful due to the possibility of and / or connection, which is why we ask our customers and partners to challenge us from time to time. John’s Challenge: “I want a job that usually runs on the 5th of every month to run only if it’s a working day. If the…
In that video tutorial we demonstrate some of the new timescheduling features of BICsuite and schedulix. We are assuming that our company has branches in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich. As well as the national holidays, each branch has its own public holidays. A job should only run if all the branches are working, that is if there are no public holidays in any of the…
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We are very pleased to announce the new version 2.9 of BICsuite and schedulix. In addition to the already very powerful features of earlier versions, in this release we have paid particular attention to make the operation in some issues even more efficient and flexible. Here are the most important innovations: GUI shell:Although most BICsuite and schedulix tasks are solved with the graphical user interface,…
Following maintenance work on the server and system outages, backlogs with resource bottlenecks inevitably occur in the workload automation that need to be resolved as quickly as possible. In a backlog situation, the operator team has to take the necessary measures to maintain production operations, and to be able to return to normal operation as quickly as possible. In doing so, key or critical batches…