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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

Perfecting Control-M


As passionate Control-M administrators, we just cannot leave the Control-M running in production with all the default settings; we will try our best to figure out the configurations and tunings that can be done to make it close to perfect in every aspect. People may argue that it is something good to have but not 100 percent necessary in reality. Well, it may not be necessary for a site that only runs the same 200 jobs everyday, but it definitely makes noticeable difference if it is a reasonable sized environment with a large amount of users and running complex batch flows.

Talks around Control-M best practices and fine tuning can go pages after pages. In this section, we will be focusing on two major topics — housekeeping and NDP turning, plus highlighting some worth-to-consider features.

Housekeeping

If we walk to an existing Control-M customer site, it is guaranteed that we will see a small group of jobs running daily to perform all kinds of housekeeping activities...