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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

Acknowledgement

There are many people that I would like to thank for their contribution to the creation of this book and to those who have reviewed, proofread, commented, and provided quotes.

On a greater scale, I would like to thank Bentze Perlmutter and Graeme Byrnes, who originally taught me every technical detail of Control-M, followed by Bruce Roberts, who in the recent years embraced my Control-M knowledge from a pure technical level into business level. I also would like to thank people who I worked for and worked with in the past few years, those who had a faith in me and gave me the opportunity and trust, including Allen Lee, Amy You, Angel Wong, Bao Ling, Louis Cimiotti, Chris Cunningham, Craig Taprell, Curtis Eddington, David Timms, Digby Pritchard, Doug Vail, Ian Jones, Jason St. Clair, Jeffrey Merriel, Jim Darragh, Matthew Sun, Min Yuan, Moshe Miller, Rabin Sarkar, Rick Brown, Shaun Kimpton, Stephen Donnelly, Tom Geva, Tristan Gutsche, Xianhua Peng, Yuan Yuan, and Ze'ev Gross. Last but not least, I would like to thank my friend Mike Palmer who inspired me and guided me in every aspect of my life.

For all those who have provided support and guidance over the years and if I have yet to mention your name, I sincerely apologize.