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

Enhance the file processing batch flow

Now let's recall the file processing scenario from Chapter 4, Create and Manage Batch Flows with Control-M GUI. Back then, we defined a job flow to pick up a set of files in every 30 minutes on ctm-demo-linux-02 and process them in batch mode, that is, by joining and sorting records and removing duplicates. The processed file will be filtered for three record types and get archived into a history file. At the same time, the processed file will also be duplicated into ctm-demo-win-01 for filtering another three record types and archiving. The next set of source files will get picked up only if the current processing is finished and the 30 minutes interval is reached.

Now the requirement has changed a little ...