MECHANISM FOR DYNAMICALLY REGISTERING FILES IN A BATCH PROCESSING-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENT

摘要

In order to identify files that are unnecessarily created or are no longer necessary and to carry out a reliable file versioning in a batch processing-oriented environment, a dynamic batch processing system (100) is provided. The system (100) comprises a batch processing control component (12) for processing batch processing control statements (14), which contain the call of at least one program, and a database (16) containing files each having a physical file name. The system (100) also comprises a component (24) for providing program-specific file definition information that defines, by abstract selection criteria, files necessary during a program run. The physical file names of the files created for the program runs are registered in a file register (22) in the form of register entries, which assign at least one selection attribute to each physical file name. A service component (20), which communicates with the control component (12), has access to the file register (22) and the file definition component (24). File definition information is selected and/or created by the service component (20) based on the file definition information assigned to the program to be called.