Batch jobs overview

A batch job is a single set of work, and you can chain together a number of batch jobs as a group of jobs, called a batch job chain.

The batch processor runs chained batch jobs in ascending order of priority. If two or more jobs in the chain have the same priority, then ascending order of the task definition ID values will be used as a to sort the job order. If two or more jobs have the same priority and task definition ID, then the ascending order of task ID values will be used to sort the job order.

Topics in this section discuss what information is contained in a batch job and how to create a new batch job.