JAMS Pros and Cons

Drag and drop modules and tasks make scheduling complex jobs a breeze. Integrations such as File Transfer Protocol, PGP encryption/decryption, and compression tools are all the great features and add significant value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Desktop client is resource-heavy and more work is needed to make web-client more useful. I would also like to see full-feature set become available for Unix agents. Documentation also needs improvements which is behind competition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has the flexibility to create all types of jobs.

It has both and thin client so that we can add as many users as needed to run their own jobs.

The software affordable compared to other packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is not as intuitive to populate properties. To find some features it take a lot of hunting to find out. The documentation should be better so that do things ourselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is flawless. I can see job success, failure, and current. The ETL team set up data feeds, server connections, user logins - and every new client is easy breezy to get it up and running. The dashboard overview is very useful and makes my job as a dba better. I can see the job, the criteria, and 99% of the time the trouble can be identified without further investigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The yearly purchase and license update is a bit of a pain. The price leaves you with a little sticker shock - but it’s worth the price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple to use and works without requiring advanced knowledge of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That i can not use it for more in my environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The sequence design is very good to implement batch jobs with dependency, running in a serial or parallel way. This saves time and smoothes batch operations in a complicated environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ftp file transferring is not supported between agents, especially across platforms. Besides, it will be better if JAMS has an agent (not agentx using ssh) for UNIX/Linux servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We run hundreds of jobs a day internally for our company. From accounting to IT and most importantly for our shipping and receiving department. Upgrading to V7 has made this even more flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am really enjoying V7. There are a few things that do get under my skin a bit. One, tooltips get in my way when trying to save my work on a job. Two, while I was upgrading from V6 to V7 I would get these error messages and they are really tiny scroll windows with no way to expand them. I've seen the same issue in other areas of JAMS V7 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Monitor screen

credentials stored in the application

History inqury.

Sequence jobs are handy.

The whole purpose of JAMS, getting out of scheduled tasks is why we purchased it. Gives us the benefits of a single place to look and manage regular tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Credentials are onboarded with incorrect security in a shared/team environment, i.e. adding a service account. it's a major pain to manage that. Other team members often forget to fix the security.

Parts of the UI arent great - found v6 slightly better. There a trace dumps in places where a user tries an action and they don't have the correct security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can use tasks to execute based on numerous triggers or combinations thereof. There are tasks that can be done with PowerShell programming and other functions that have modules already built. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Debugging scripted tasks is a little bit cumbersome. I wish there were better capabilities to debug within the Jams editor. It's possible to debug things, but not as easy as it should be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy navigation to required actions and workflows Configuration - good support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No documentation on REST API examples in JAVA/python/poweshell , covering all endpoints Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how it is customizable and you can see all jobs in progress and the history of the jobs when you click into one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing I would say could be an improvement is, I would like to be able to see a live timeline of daily jobs I have set up to see visually what is due. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.