A method of controlling execution of a series of jobs includes the steps of executing the series of jobs sequentially, determining jobs to be rerun in the series of jobs as rerun jobs in accordance with the file access information when one of the series of jobs is terminated abnormally, the file access information indicating access to each of the files by each of the jobs, and rerunning the rerun jobs. When the rerun jobs are determined, the necessity of access to each of the files by each of the rerun jobs is determined in accordance with the file access information, and access to the files by each of said rerun jobs is selectively skipped in accordance with the result of determining the necessity of the access. Furthermore, when the series of jobs are executed, the files are allocated to an allocatable storage device in accordance with the file access information so that the jobs to be rerun become minimal.