JAMS why did nobody tell us about it
August 22, 2025
JAMS why did nobody tell us about it
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with JAMS
We are in the process of replacing our current scheduling solution (CA7 running on a mainframe) with JAMS. CA7 has many manual monitoring, alerting and reporting functions which we are automating with JAMS. JAMS will be our enterprise-wide central scheduling solution which we integrate with Fresh (Synergy) ticket logging system and PagerDuty calls for on-call support in case of failures. We are able to integrate all the current functionality of CA7 queues into JAMS with little effort.
Pros
- Job failure reporting and recovering jobs are great.
- Resources to throttle specific servers or departments in case of maintenance, issues or high volumes, and also preventing jobs from running concurrently.
- Wide range of protocols (execution methods) on various platforms (Linus, AIX, Windows and VMS)
- Inheritance of behaviors, properties and security makes life a lot easier.
Cons
- Documentation can be more detailed with examples.
- Custom reporting is limited.
- Graphical view of dependencies and jobs can help to summarize an overview of scheduling
- Changes made after a job has been scheduled is not applied to the execution of a job.
- JAMS reduced running cost a lot.
- JAMS can be tailored to fit different areas of responsibility and roles to each department
I was not involved in the selection process.
Do you think JAMS delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with JAMS's feature set?
Yes
Did JAMS live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of JAMS go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy JAMS again?
Yes
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