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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

Chapter 8. Road to Workload Automation

Welcome to the final chapter of this book. People buy books all the time, but don't always make it to the last chapter. I am impressed you are still reading. Assuming you did not jump from the first chapter, by now you must be able to confidently design and build a simple Control-M environment, schedule jobs to meet business requirements as well as manage the environment and identify areas for improvement. By acquiring all this knowledge and skill, we are technically qualified to enter into the Golden Age, that is, Workload Automation.

In this chapter, we have to get back from administration to scheduling. We will be using Control-M add-on features to enhance the file processing batch flow to make it true real-time parallel processing and meet the expectation of loosely-coupled integration with external applications. This is followed by enhancing the overall processing performance by using node group technology and making it more flexible and dynamic...