Introduction

This book is intended to help you to operate with XBM 4.4.0.

XBM (the XFRAME Batch Manager) is a cross-platform software solution to control, schedule and supply facilities to scripts execution.

Both UNIX an Windows systems can run user batch scripts to control execution of batch programs, and  they supply a very flexible environment with just few facilities to control batch execution.

Normally these features supplied by this system are good enough for native applications, which have been designed for that systems, and take advantage of the system structure, but sometimes the flexibility of these architecture can be really dangerous for batch scripts, coming from Mainframe systems.

In fact, mainframes (as z/OS or VSE) let their jobs run in a really rigid environment, in order to grant some security and integrity features. Therefore JCLs coming from mainframe system, even if migrated into a new language (I.e. shell script, windows scripting language, java etc.), have the logical structure of mainframe JCL, and running them without a driver can be really dangerous.

XBM is born to avoid conflicts in JCLs executions in the new systems, and to supply the some features, that system cannot supply without a big programming effort in scripts.

XBM core and consoles are a pure Java coding, therefore they can be run on each system supporting the Java platform.

The script interface is obtained trough the standard system features.

XBM supplies the following features: