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BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation

By : Qiang Ding
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BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation

By: Qiang Ding

Overview of this book

Control-M is one of the most widely used enterprise class batch workload automation platform. With a strong knowledge of Control-M, you will be able to use the tool to meet ever growing batch needs. There has been no book that can guide you to implement and manage this powerful tool successfully... until now. With this book you will quickly master Control-M and be able to call yourself "a Control-M" specialist! "BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation" will lead you into the world of Control-M and guide you to implement and maintain a Control-M environment successfully. By mastering this workload automation tool, you will see new opportunities opening up before you. With this book you will be able to take away and put into practice knowledge from every aspect of Control-M ñ implementation, administration, design and management of Control-M job flows, and more importantly how to move into workload automation and let batch processing utilize the cloud. You will start off with batch processing and workload automation, and then get an understanding of how Control-M meets these needs. Then we will look more in depth at the technical details of Control-M, and finally look at how to work with it to meet critical business needs. Throughout the book, you will learn important concepts and features, as well as learn from the Author's experience, accumulated over many years. By the end of the book you will be set up to work efficiently with this tool and also understand how to utilize the latest features of Control-M.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Look back what we have achieved on this journey: we started with building a Control-M environment from scratch to making workload automation a reality and, finally, taking the processing into close. We should be impressed by what we did!

In this chapter, we made a number of improvements to our file processing job flow from both the integration and performance aspects by using the cutting-edge Control-M add-on features. These include enabling the job flow to have exposure to external applications by using the BPI web service interface, integration with ESB with BPI web service and message queue jobs, rendering the processing truly parallel, and implementing load balancing. Towards the end, we turned our processing flow into workloads and tapped into the power of Cloud computing to for limitless processing.

This is not the finish line; this is the only the beginning! As long as we remain consistently focused, we can become real Control-M experts and will be able to build a perfect Control...