a method for managing jobs scheduled for execution on a target system in which some jobs may spawn additional jobs scheduled for execution on the target system including intercepting jobs scheduled for execution in the target system , determining whether there is resource sufficiency in the target system for executing jobs , responsive to an affirmative determination of resource sufficiency , releasing previously intercepted jobs for execution in the target system , computing a limit of a number of jobs which can be concurrently scheduled by an external system to the target system , and transmitting the computed limit to the external system .