Tied to the 'JOB' button are operations that are so useful and fundamental to midi music production that the lack of those operations in any workstation, music production synthesizer, arranger, or DAW should be an immediate show stopper. And these operations and the 'JOB' button have been with Yamaha hardware sequencers and workstations for a very long time. It seems has far back as 1984. My search for where and when the 'JOB' button first appeared has so far resulted in this lineage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKYi2Sl1wc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAcrWc1ijGo
Yamaha QX1 Sequencer (somewhere around 1984)
Yamaha QX3 Sequencer
Yamaha QX5 etc.
Yamaha Qy10
Yamaha QY70
Yamaha QY300
Yamaha QY700
Yamaha QY100
Yamaha QS300
Yamaha Ex5
Yamaha Motif Series (starting in 2001)
I know I've probably missed some in here. But these are the ones I was able to get manuals for,and check the existence and function of the 'JOB' button and the associated operations. If someone out there knows if the Job button and associated operations show up earlier 'Please Post!"
These 20+ Pattern mode jobs, and 20+ song mode jobs mean everything to those of us who do our composing and arranging and editing on the Motif and they have along heritage. They are battle tested, rock solid, and straight forward to use. The 'Event List' processing alone is worth the price of admission.
I've used Cubase, and Logic at very advanced levels. So I know that at the end of the day with enough ingenuity and hard work one can get the same things done in those DAWs as can be accomplished with the 'JOB' button. But as they say you could play tennis with a golf club if you practice long and hard enough. The Motif's 'JOB' button and the associated operations are tightly integrated with the Motif architecture, its controllers, and its buttons and knobs. A large computer screen and a mouse are simply no substitution for the ease of use and the efficiency of the 'JOB' button and the Motif jobs
A generic desktop computer DAW and the generic sequencing commands simply cannot compete with the elegance and stream lined sequencer that is integrated into the Motif and has been around and thoroughly tested since at least 1984. 
Its too bad Yamaha chose to go a different way with the Montage. I know they eventually added some semblance of the pattern mode sequencer and some of the jobs back into the Montage., but the last time I looked the montage has.,
No Event List
No Event Jobs, Measure Jobs
Missing some of the Pattern Jobs
has only 8 scenes compared to Motif's 16 sections
Make no mistake about it the Montage M is an astonishing instrument, but it would have been so much more if it had included the full heritage of Yamaha's 'JOB' button
I would think that since Yamaha owned Steinberg that they would have insisted the Cubase include a 'JOB' button and the 20+ song jobs, and 20+ pattern jobs as part of their Motif, MoX, MoxF special integration template. I really expected this to be the case when they launched the Montage and pointed those looking for Motif's music production capabilities to Cubase
The 'JOB' button and the 20+ song jobs, and pattern jobs, represent a long line of Yamaha's innovation in hardware and integrated sequencer space. I literally can't imagine my music production efforts without it
