Scheduling Discoverer Workbooks

We are trying to replicate an Oracle environment for reporting purposes. We use Discover (3.1.37 currently, version 4 soon) as one of our reporting tools. We have the need to replicate the Discover Scheduling functionality in the second environment. Is there any way to schedule Discoverer Workbooks 'automatically' i.e. not through the Discoverer product? Are there any API's that are available to generate the DBA Jobs/EUL Packages necessary to schedule a workbook ?
Any comments appreciated ?

Ian
For DOS scheduling, take a look at Russ Proudman's presentation at:-
www.proudman.homestead.com (select presentations, Australia - Dashboard presentation).
There's also info in the Discoverer Admin handbook under Command line interfaces.
You can download JIT scheduler at http://www.gibinsoft.net. I've used it with the command line interface and it works fine.
Can't help you with the API, but I don't think there's anything like that available.
Cheers
Chris

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