ASG-Zeke is an automated job scheduler that dynamically schedules and dispatches events, and monitors every aspect of a job schedule. ASG-Zeke automation minimizes the need for personnel to provide manual intervention.

ASG-Zeke provides wide-ranging functionality, including system command scheduling, automatic variable calculation and substitution, step-level condition-code validation, workload balancing, schedule forecasting and simulation, System Authorization Facility (SAF) security, optional SMP/E support, simultaneous support for multiple JCL libraries, electronic vaulting capabilities, pre-built calendars, and other utilities. With the availability of the Zeke Automation Option, simple console automation capabilities can be defined and managed directly from ASG-Zeke.

Through the use of ASG-Zeke Agents, scheduling is extended to all the major platforms, including UNIX, OS/400, and Microsoft Windows.

ASG Operations Management solutions support Business Service Management initiatives through the propagation of business critical processing events to ASG’s Unified Management Architecture (UMA). This enabling technology allows the correlation of batch processing events (an aspect other BSM solutions do not address) with other events vital to the business process.

• Optimizes workload through real-time, logical, and physical resource control
• Schedules and manages from one location to an infinite number of systems across operating systems worldwide
• Creates and supports concurrent schedules within the same job names (versioning), performs backups and maintains calendars without interrupting service
• Presents all schedule information for every supported platform on a single screen and highlights all exceptions (e.g., abends, late jobs, etc.) 
• Provides perpetual calendars that allow defined dates as far into the future as needed

Resources

• ASG-Zeke datasheet (PDF)
• ASG-Zeke efficiency assessment (PDF)

• ASG-Cortex-Pdb for documenting application objects and attributes
• ASG-Doc-Aid for comprehensive, standardized, and accurate job documentation
• ASG-JCLPREP for JCL management
• ASG-OpsCentral for centralized management of enterprise scheduling
• ASG-Outbound for mainframe and open-platform file transfers
• ASG-Workload Analyzer for job analysis
• ASG-Workload Planner for job planning when scheduling
• ASG-Zack for automated console management
• ASG-Zara for automated tape management
• ASG-Zebb for automated job restart/rerun