Introduction

A few months ago, an application team requested my help with one of their monthly batch jobs.  It was running for an excessively long time, and they needed another set of eyes to see if there was any way to improve it.  This article describes the analysis that was performed, the actions that were taken, and the results of the changes.  read more »

The impact of services-oriented architecture (SOA) is just beginning to be felt in the batch world-and the challenges are clearly present. Batch legacy applications have been around for years, capably running the business. Now, initiatives like SOA are forcing new integration and interoperability requirements on batch processes that had comfortably been categorized as "untouchable." These processes have to interoperate with online and Web batch applications.  read more »