JAMS Pros and Cons

JAMS scheduler is a all-rounded scheduler in comparing to other enterprise products. It is light-weight, while supporting many modes of executions, from batch/shell/PowerShell, to direct SSH command and even database-encapsulations like direct SQL executions, SSIS executions and ODBC supports. Yes you're right that those jobs can always be wrapped using scripts, the JAMS developers know your needs and it saves you times, however. You don't have to login to a particular hosts and check the particular script when debugging. You can oversee your workflow with one screen when comparing to some bulky giant products that usually puzzle you. It is the best product to upgrade if you are still using crontabs or Windows schedulers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Engineering support is responsive. But I believe it helps if their knowledge base can be expanded for users' self-service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JAMS is incredibly easy to use once configured, and allows for several levels of access and security so we can have different teams with different access to the application. The support from Help Systems is also very, very good. We've had several speed bumps getting things automated and even a system failure or two, and support has always been able to remedy the situation quickly. JAMS can automate just about any application you can think of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is on us for our rollout procedures, but having licensing tied to the machine name vs some other characteristic has made it difficult for us when we moved a server from testing/development into a production server. The machine name would have changed, but because the license is tied to the name, it made things difficult and the result would be a machine in production with a name that implied it is a dev server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We chose JAMS to replace our scheduler, to plan a lot of jobs in SAP & LInux. JAMS team supported me to migrate them, with preparing a part of this, and helping on all issues or questions I had. We were very efficient because JAMS support always answered me when I needed it, to explain me how it works.

JAMS is running now in production since 1,5 months, without issue or nothing we can't solve immediatly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's some little bugs in import/export workflow which need to be corrected in new versions, because as JAMS is offering a lot of capabilities during development, and they are lost during the export, to deploy in productive environment

It's disappointing because it works if you developped it in the final environment but you lost it during deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The support of MVPSI has been my favorite feature, they are extremely helpful and knowledgeable.

I also enjoy the projected schedule feature as it allows us to accurately forecast certain maintenance activities arounded important scheduling times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel updates are required more often than I would like but its a minor issue. The Web UI does not seem to perform as well as the thick client and most of our users prefer the web client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, very flexible, and cost effective. When we switched from Appwrox we were able to create the same chains in easier to understand, and faster to create Workflows. The new Banner Procedure Execution method is a MAJOR time saver! Being able to load Banner parameters makes building Banner job sub jobs easy and error free! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That the new Banner Procedure wasn't available during our implementation! Also, sometimes PowerShell commands we test in native Powershell doesn't work the same way when run from JAMS. We always have to do a little tweaking, but that could be that I'm a novice at PowerShell. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Smoothly handles impersonation; allows for powershell, old style batch, and other Windows scripting languages; has cli for job manipulation; provides alerts on job failure. Scheduler supports node failover and queue mechanism can support failover in the event of an agent/worker node failure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

lacks a panic button (stop all work immediately); licenses per agent so it would be expensive as a compute farm grid management tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Technical assistance, JAMS support staff always responds promptly. Easy to customize Jobs to meet business requirements. Easy to deal with complex job dependencies and scheduling different ways. Allows custom execution methods. Secured File Transfer setup is easy to transfer files to third parties. Alerts and Email notifications setup is easy in JAMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn’t much that I dislike in JAMS but there are few pain points. Current we use JAMS v6, maybe version 7 has more improvements.

In the Jobs import process, editing the exported XML file is a bit time taking procedure in tracing all the necessary changes and all dependencies. I feel there should be an internal mechanism in the import process to trace all dependencies in the order and create those dependency jobs first and then go in the order.

Sometimes we need to delete the jobs in bulk in our testing, here jobs bulk delete from folder feature is helpful if JAMS has the one,

In certain cases JAMS doesn't have the ability to capture Job exception details unless customized with PowerShell exception handling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like having one access point to all of our servers and batch queues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Interactive Services that could be viewed on Server 2012 no longer can be viewed on Server 2016. I understand that this is a Windows Issue, but it would be helpful if there was an alternative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JAMS gives us the ability to see at a glance all our jobs and their dependencies. We also like the ability to add dependencies to our workflows and automate things like file renaming, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The client really needs an update, it is not exactly the most intuitive things to use when creating jobs. Also, the online help could really be improved. Fortunately JAMS Support has been extremely responsive in answering our questions

Unfortunately, I'm docking a point for the software as it seems that QA has not been the most robust lately. The last 2 releases have had what I'd consider to be somewhat buggy, requiring workarounds, or, in some cases, us to install Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JAMS is very easy to use. JAMS is very reliable. JAMS Support is top-notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to gather historical info across timelines for multiple jobs and workflows could be improved. Reporting takes some getting used to and more canned reports would be beneficial. It would be nice to have some way to document workflow design and search for jobs within workflows with more ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.