Having a solid batch infrastructure is only the beginning of this journey of workload automation. Just imagine a data warehouse operates 24/7 with no data in it; without batch jobs running, the batch scheduling tool won't present any value to the business. The real ROI of the tool depends on what we schedule in the tool and how we schedule them. In today's business environment, batch processing requirements can get extremely complicated. It is essential for us to master the powerful job scheduling features provided by Control-M and therefore be able to utilize these features to meet the ever-growing batch needs.
In this chapter, we are going to use the Control-M environment we built in Chapter 3, Building the Control-M Infrastructure, to define and execute batch flows. We will begin with a detailed explanation of the important concepts within Control-M that are related to job scheduling. Based on it, we will explore basic features...