BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation
by Qiang Ding
Summary
We should be proud of ourselves because, by now, we have pretty much mastered most of the major features of Control-M.
In this chapter, we added more jobs to Control-M by bulk load jobs from the crontab. We transformed our file processing job flow from time-based scheduling into event-driven scheduling and improved some part of the job flow by using additional Control Modules. After we defined the jobs, we revisited the Control-M/EM GUI client to discover more GUI features, such as advanced functionalities offered in ViewPoints and archived ViewPoints. We also had a look at how to use BIM and Forecast to proactively monitor jobs and estimate potential impacts by creating What-if scenarios. Towards the end, we visited the Reporting Facility, ...
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