- To treat large sets of data, with a typical read-process-write repetitive scenario
- Bulk processing has to be non-interactive, highly efficient and scalable
- C# your favorite development and runtime platform
Summer Batch provides following notable features (non-exhaustive list -- see chapter 2 for details) :
- Restartability of failed jobs using a database persisted job repository;
- Sequential or parallel processing of jobs (scalability support);
- Mainframe EBCDIC files readers and writers, using COBOL copybooks;
- File sort capabilities using legacy DFSORT cards semantics;
- FTP operations support;
- Email sending support;
- SQL Scripts invocation support;
- Mainframe GDG-like facility support;
To achieve this, Summer Batch relies on following bricks :
