APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING JOB FLOWS IN AN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

An apparatus manages job flows in an information processing system. In response to a request from a monitoring terminal, the apparatus creates, based on attribute information of jobs included in job flows to be managed, classification information in which the jobs are classified by attributes thereof. The apparatus groups the jobs into groups according to the attribute information by using the classification information and information on transition relationships between the jobs, and creates job-execution-schedule display information with which a transition relationship between a first job and a second job subsequent to the first job is displayed when the first and second jobs belong to different groups, and with which an execution interval of jobs in each group is displayed in association with that of jobs in another group, based on the number of jobs that have been sequentially executed from a starting job to each job in a job flow.