The long-running scheduler accepts job submissions and determines where and when to run them. As part of managing jobs, the long-running scheduler persists job information in an external job database. Configurations for the long-running scheduler includes the selection of the deployment target, datasource JNDI name, and database schema name, to be configured for the scheduler.
The job scheduler can be configured using the administrative console or by scripting. To configure the job scheduler using scripting language, use the link to the job scheduler configuration administrative tasks provided in the related links section at the bottom of this page. To configure the job scheduler using the administrative console, see the following procedure.