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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

Planning the Batch environment


The foundation of the golden age centralized workload automation is a well-designed and properly configured batch software infrastructure. Although the technical aspect of installing commercial batch software such as Control-M is fairly straightforward, implementing a complete batch environment is not only about finding a server and installing the software. Building a batch environment without proper planning can turn out to be costly for the organization over the long run (for example, the penalty of constantly missing SLA due to an unstable batch environment, cost of modifying the infrastructure, and cost of additional licensing due to poor planning). It is also very challenging to make major structural modifications to the production batch environment without interrupting the business once everything has gone live and while working closely with each other.

A well-designed batch environment should be reliable, secure, and scalable. In order to properly plan...