Phantom Processing Overview

Use the Phantom to schedule processes, such as reports, to run on a regular schedule. You can still access your terminal and perform other tasks while using phantom processing.

For example, schedule the Customer Calling Queue Report to run every afternoon to ensure that customers needing to be notified about their orders are called the same day that the order status is updated. The phantom runs this report in the background so that users are not interrupted in other work they need to perform in the system.

Use the System Event Notification control maintenance record to schedule notifications when phantom processes do not finish successfully.

Note: Phantom processing is time zone specific so that you can view all processes within the phantom in the same time zone as set up for your ID in User Maintenance. On certain phantom processing screens, you can change the time zone view for that screen.

Use the Phantom screens to complete the following tasks:

• Schedule phantom processes

• View process status

• Edit phantom process schedules

• Control the number of Phantoms running

• Manage queued Phantom processes

• Kill processes

• View the Phantom Activity Log

• View Phantom process parameters

See Also:

Setup Requirements for Phantom Processing