We have been monitoring active jobs, viewing archived jobs, forecasting the future, as well as managing batch flows as services. What else can we do, or rather, what else needs to be done in order to have our future batch environment under total control? Well there are many things we can do, but one of the must-haves is a reporting tool for us to spot trend and problems among the huge amount of data. Reports of the batch environment are like financial statements of a company; they tell us what we have in the system and how they are running.
In Control-M, reports are generated by the dedicated GUI Client application, that is, Reporting Facility. After clicking on the Reporting Facility icon, we will be asked for the same login as we did for Control-M/EM and Control-M Desktop. By clicking on File | New | Ad Hoc Report or the New Report shortcut icon, we will have a selection of different report types.
Report types offered by Reporting Facility are...