Scheduling in OWB

Hi
What are options for scheduling OWB mappings?
And could any one please suggest me which one is best to run the jobs sequentially and concurrently on monthly and wekkly basis.
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Kamineni.Ashok Kumar
Saksoft Ltd
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Hi,
You can use any Scheduling tool like Maestro / OEM or even you can use Oracle JOB (using DBMS_JOB) to schedule these.
mahesh

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