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...