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BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation

By : Qiang Ding
Book Image

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 6. Advanced Batch Scheduling and Management

Greedy people always try to do everything at once and expect an instant result, as an outcome, they either end up making a huge mistake or lose their drive due to the extreme stress they cause themselves. On the contrary, as successful people always say, in order to get to the ultimate goal, it is important to walk slowly by taking one step at a time and gradually bringing up the speed rather than trying to run from the beginning. We have been following the successful people's guideline by taking baby steps on the road to workload automation. However, today I am glad to tell you that we are at the stage where we can speed up a little bit! We now have a solid batch infrastructure with jobs running, as well as the necessary knowledge and skill to manage it, that is, it is the time to come out of the Stone Age and enter into the Bronze Age!

In this chapter, we will first migrate some existing batch processing tasks into Control-M, and then...