Fortra's JAMS (BYOL)
Fortra | 7.7.0Windows, Windows Server 2022 Base 2024.02.14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Frustrating user interface but backend functionality is satisfactory for batch job scheduling.
What do you like best about the product?
It has custom calendar which is useful for us. Pricing is competitive for paid job scheduler.
What do you dislike about the product?
Desktop user interface is clunky and flicker when scrolling, makes it hard to know if an input has been changed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Batch scheduling that has complex dependency.
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JAMS Scheduler
What do you like best about the product?
Complexity and variety of jobs and functions that can be used and scheduled with the software. I use this extensively with FTP transfer jobs and file sweeps.
What do you dislike about the product?
My single complaint at this time is an all folder search when trying to find a job. Right now if a search is not performed in the correct folder the job will not be found.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation of file movement that has many different levels of file complexity and requirements.
Awesome Job Scheduler
What do you like best about the product?
We can manage JAMS Jobs from a straightforward UI of the application.
We can use it on both Windows and Linux platform.
The Product team of the application is very responsive.
There are many tutorials available for the tool.
I would like to recommend the tool to everyone.
We can use it on both Windows and Linux platform.
The Product team of the application is very responsive.
There are many tutorials available for the tool.
I would like to recommend the tool to everyone.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing of the application is on higher side which has restricted the growth of the application as it has potential otherwise there is no downside in the usuage of JAMS Job Scheduler?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can schedule any of the Job in our Test and Production Environment. The schduler can work on diffrent timezones. We can integrate with Microsoft SQL Server very easily. R
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would like to recommend this JAMS Job Scheduler to evry organisation.
You Need JAMS
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite JAMS feature is that it can be extended using custom execution methods, written in C#, using their native libraries. These custom execution methods make it easy to schedule repeatable, customizable jobs which are highly tailored to our company's systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
As a counterpoint of what I like best, I'll admit that there is a learning curve for writing custom execution methods. While JAMS support helps get us what we need to know, I feel that more documentation or project templates could help new customers get up to speed at using this powerful JAMS capability.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Most of our JAMS jobs pertain to file movement, ETL, and BI reloads. Before adopting JAMS, we had a small department of file processors who would follow daily procedures to check client FTP sites for files, download them, and import them into our platform. We automated those tasks with JAMS while expanding our business and adding numerous other tasks. Even as the company grew, we did not need to expand the file processing department. Their duties shifted from manual processing of a small number of files to monitoring the JAMS schedule and responding to any issues encountered as the system handles many more files than they could ever hope to process themselves.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I have three recommendations:
1) Shop around. Compare JAMS against other enterprise job schedulers such as Tidal and Tivoli. You will find that the scalable pricing and system architecture make JAMS a cost-effective solution for small companies and a powerful tool for large companies.
2) Create custom execution methods specific to your systems and environment; extending JAMS will pay dividends.
3) Consolidate all of your system-specific schedules into JAMS, i.e. SQL job scheduler, BI app reload schedulers, or Windows task scheduler. This will give you a single location where you administer all scheduled jobs. It will also allow job chains; sequences of jobs which run across multiple systems, in concert.
1) Shop around. Compare JAMS against other enterprise job schedulers such as Tidal and Tivoli. You will find that the scalable pricing and system architecture make JAMS a cost-effective solution for small companies and a powerful tool for large companies.
2) Create custom execution methods specific to your systems and environment; extending JAMS will pay dividends.
3) Consolidate all of your system-specific schedules into JAMS, i.e. SQL job scheduler, BI app reload schedulers, or Windows task scheduler. This will give you a single location where you administer all scheduled jobs. It will also allow job chains; sequences of jobs which run across multiple systems, in concert.
It's a great product
What do you like best about the product?
It helps us in our operation to fulfill the customer's wishes
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. It fullfills in all our possibilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're using it for all our customers to run their batch operations.
JAMS scheduler Review
What do you like best about the product?
It's very user-friendly to set up jobs. In our organization, We had to set up a lot of SFTP jobs, SSIS package execution schedules. A lot of SSIS packages have a dependency on other SSIS packages. JAMS scheduler has multiple execution methods for scheduling SSIS packages sequentially. We can also add a dependency for the jobs to handle the execution of the jobs. The email alert functionality helps to receive the alerts and log files if any job fails. The JAMS client monitor window is handy to monitor daily jobs.
What do you dislike about the product?
JAMS WebClient still requires better performance. JAMS monitor is not displaying JAMS job execution status accurately.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The process is simple to create jobs. JAMS scheduler has helped us automate the execution of SSIS packages for daily file uploads and SFTP the reports to external vendors. The email alert functionality is helping to alert us about job failures. JAMS scheduler has reduced the manual efforts of the support resources to manage the daily file uploads and generate the reports.
Great Software
What do you like best about the product?
Jams schedule is a great program. I use it to schedule and monitor many jobs on many SQL servers. The interface is solid and works great. Their Tech Support is top-notch. This is an Enterprise-Ready Solution
What do you dislike about the product?
Report creator takes some practice but you can use PowerShell to create your own faster reports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Centralized Job Scheduling for an enterprise-level topology
Quick, knowledgeable response
What do you like best about the product?
I called and was able to get a quick, human response with a detailed, knowledgeable answer.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing! You guys are great. I just wish my company would upgrade from 6.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Submitting data pipeline jobs at scale.
JAMS Enterprise Job Scheduler Review
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy JAMS is to schedule and the intuitive screens. Timely feedback and dependability. Schedule once and I can literally forget about it as JAMS Scheduler consistently works hard for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
I cannot remember anything that I do not like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use JAMS in oour company to schedule daily, weekly and monthly tasks. I like the timely feedback i receive from the scheduler. We also realized time and cost savings.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go for it for all your automation needs. I recommend it
Powerful Scheduler that is steadily improving and well supported
What do you like best about the product?
We have been using JAMS Scheduler since the major upgrade from version 6 to 7. The product has steadily improved with each release. Even more significantly, support for JAMS has been incredibly strong, even when we came across a quirky situation or a bug in the software.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a learning curve for using various components of JAMS, even for things that seem like they should be straightforward. For example, the projected schedule feature of JAMS Client only shows jobs that started between the dates and times specified for the Time Range. This excludes any jobs that are repeating jobs during that time window if the initial start time of the job precedes the Time Range window.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are running most of our scheduled tasks for our university, including batch-submitted jobs from our Ellucian Banner ERP, via the JAMS Scheduler. In addition to using the JAMS Client for scheduling tasks, we are using the JAMS Web API to process batch jobs.
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