A question for anyone using InterSystems technology:

What are the biggest challenges you’ve faced either trying to hire developers that know ObjectScript, or trying to train developers on ObjectScript?

• Are developers generally willing or resistant to the idea of learning ObjectScript?   Why?
• For developers trying to learn ObjectScript - what was that process like?   What were the main challenges there?
  • In-person learning?  
  • Online class? 
  • Documentation?  
  • What were your impressions?

• How did it compare to other languages?
• What would have made it easier to learn?

The Ensemble Scheduler is used for automatically turning on and off business hosts at certain dates and times.   You could use it if, for example, you wanted to only run a business host from 9am to 5pm every day.    Conversely, if you want do to trigger an event to occurr at a specific time, for example, a job running at 1am to batch up and send off all the previous day's transactions in one file, we recommend other methods such as the Task Manager.

This article explains how the Ensemble Scheduler works.