Patent ID: 8707307
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable, non-transitory recording medium storing a job management program that when executed by a processor causes a computer to perform a process, the process comprising: referring, when there is a job activation request received based on predetermined conditions being satisfied accompanied with a variable information in which an execution attribute and an identifier of the execution attribute of a job are associated, to a job definition in which the execution attribute is described with an arbitrary identifier and to the variable information; creating a job based on the execution attribute received with the activation request by replacing an execution attribute associated with an identifier within the job definition; activating the created job; and temporarily storing, when there is a job activation request accompanied with the variable information in which the execution attribute and the identifier of the execution attribute of the job are associated with an arbitrary grouped specific job set as an object, the variable information in a storage medium, wherein the referring refers to the variable information stored in the storage medium, and with all of the jobs belonging to the specific job set as an object, and the creating creates a job based on the execution attribute stored in the variable information in the storage medium by replacing the execution attribute associated with the identifier within the job definition, wherein when the variable information is read in from the variable information stored in the storage medium with the specific job set specified by the job activation request, if more than one variable information which are identical with each other are stored in the variable information stored in the storage medium, the variable information with a small job set is preferentially read in.