Hi Garth - We don't use TIDAL and I have zero knowledge of it, but we use Control-M as our enterprise scheduler for almost all of our Lawson processes including S3 batch jobs, S3 ProcessFlows, LTM async tasks, and LTM ProcessFlows.
Control-M basically just gives us the ability to run tasks from the command line. If TIDAL does the same thing, then this should work for you.
We've created a small number of scripts that call the lawson command-line utilities. Generally our scripts launch a process, then watch until it completes or errors, then notify a distribution list that it completed or failed. We have scripts for: - launching S3 batch programs (jqsubmit/wtsubmit) - watching for S3 batch completion/error (jqstatus) - launching S3 processflows (fileclient) - watching for S3 pflow completion (rngdbdump against LOGAN>wfworkunit) - launching LTM processflows - launching LTM async tasks
Basically, we create ControlM jobs that call the appropriate script(s) and pass in the required parameters for program, user, job, etc.
Since S3 provides dedicated command-line tools for these tasks, this is pretty straightforward. LTM is more complicated because they don't provide those types of utilities, so we had to fake the system to do what we needed it to do.
Good luck.