Remote Job Entry

Remote job entry is the term used to describe this process of sending files and printing reports at high speeds on Mainframe computers from remote workstations. An RJE workstation operator has complete console control of the job flow between the workstation and mainframe.

The RJE workstation is called a remote because it usually is located some distance from the host computer. The workstation connects to the host through a modem or local area network. When you send jobs from the remote workstation to the host computer, the process is called remote job entry.

Faster modems are used by Internet users every day, notably cable modems and ADSL modems. In telecommunications, wide band command-and-control centers radio modems transmit repeating frames of data at very high data rates over microwave radio links.

Modems grew out of the need to connect teletype machines over ordinary phone lines instead of more expensive leased lines which had previously been command-and-control centers used for current loop-based Teleprompters and automated telegraphs.