SAS/CONNECT User's Guide

Periodic Agent Processing

Periodic agent processing is a client/server-based implementation of a task scheduler. SAS has expanded the traditional task scheduling service to the client/server environment by allowing agents to run on remote hosts across a network. In general, other task management products are limited to running tasks only on the local host.

Agents can be defined so the DOMAIN server schedules it to run at a specific date and time or on a repetitive (periodic) run schedule. Periodic scheduling can be defined to start on a specific hour and minute on either a day-of-the-week schedule or a month-and-day schedule.

Periodic report generation agents can be defined to distribute electronic reports to clients in the form of message attachment packages that are delivered to queues monitored by desktop presentation applications.

For example, throughout the day, decision support transactions can be queued for off-hours execution. At a specified time, an application server agent can be scheduled to service the transaction queue and return results to the client that made the request. The results might be in the form of a response message that has the results delivered as attachments to the designated message queue.

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