A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR JOB SCHEDULING IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A job scheduling system for executing work units in a data processing system wherein some of the work units require the availability of a virtual environment before the execution can start. The method of the present invention provides a job scheduling system which, when defining the scheduling plan, verifies if any virtual environment is required for the execution of one or more of the jobs. If this is the case, a repository containing all the necessary information for the set up and implementation of the Virtual Environment is accessed and the scheduling plan is modified to ensure that, at the scheduled time, the requested Virtual Environment is installed and ready for the execution of that one or more job.