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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

How do Organizations Work With Control-M?


In an ideal environment, Control-M should be used as a centralized batch scheduling tool across the entire organization. These organizations are more likely to have a noticeable amount of complex batch processing running across multiple machines. To some extent, we could say that higher the number of jobs that are running, the more complex they are (that is, dependencies, scheduling rules, and number of execution hosts involved), and the more RIO Control-M will be present. That's why we see so many Control-M customers that are banks, insurance companies, large manufacture companies, or telecommunication service providers.

In many organizations, people around the world who belong to different departments are involved in batch processing and may have access to Control-M, but with different access levels depending on their job roles. The common job roles that could be related to Control-M are:

  • Developers: Develop applications that requires batch processing...