Earlier in Chapter 2, Exploring Control-M, we briefly introduced some basic Control-M terminologies such as, what is a "job", the purpose of "job condition" and "resource", and the meaning of "post-processing", as well as how Control-M handles job submission.
In this chapter, before we start to define and schedule jobs in Control-M, let's spend some extra time to continue expanding our mind with the "Control-M way of thinking" by looking into more details of the following key concept:
Contents of a job definition
Lifecycle of a job
New Day Procedure (NDP)
User Daily
"Job" is the smallest element in a Control-M batch environment. Each job has its own set of definitions. By interrupting the definition, the Control-M/Server would know which machine to submit the job to, when to submit, what to trigger, and what other actions to take after the job is completed. These job definitions are stored in the Control-M's database for Control-M itself...