Discussion - The Next Generation of CONTROL-M

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Discussion - The Next Generation of CONTROL-M

Post by Moti_reshef » 04 Jan 2011 6:16

Dear All,

As you know, BMC released CONTROL-M 700 a few month ago.

I would like to hear from you what is your expectations for the next major release (800?)

how would you like to enhance the product?
what are the most important fields that BMC should invest and develop for the CONTROL-M?

I will appreciate any of your comments...

Thanks,
Moti.
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THE NEXT GENERATION OF CONTROL-M

Post by brownbag » 12 Jan 2011 2:06

The best thing that can be done to enhance Control-M in the next version is to improve post-processing capabilities. This can be done by enhancing the steps by providing a basic language or script. Just the inclusion of IF/ELSE statements and/or SELECT statements would make an enormous difference to the ability of schedulers to determine how to take action based on job results. The current method of running ON statements one after the other makes it very difficult to allow flexibility.

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Post by Dilbert » 12 Jan 2011 1:31

- improve upgrade - tool for automatically migrate data from old installations
- improve CCM installation - install CCM from Configuration Manager
- IF/ELSE statement
- better resource control - for example, ability to control how much CPU job can use
- better drag&drops functionalities - possibility to put job "box" exactly where I want it on the screen (Control-M Desktop)

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Post by Moti_reshef » 16 Jan 2011 7:18

Thanks for your feedback!

If anyone would like to add some more thoughts, you are more than welcome!

Rgds,
Moti.

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Post by Dilbert » 17 Jan 2011 3:07

Oh, another thing:
CONTROL-M Fix Pack installation doesn't know how to stop all CTM services and I must stop them manually.
This is not how modern installation procedures should works....

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Post by gglau » 17 Jan 2011 10:46

My wish list

- In Steps, be able to pick up value from SYSOUT and assign into AutoEdit
- job to start upon delete of existing IN condition
- IN/OUT condition of +/- n days rather than NEXT/PREV based on job ordering scheduling
- quantitative and control resources for SMART table

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Post by Walty » 18 Jan 2011 3:17

Some ideas

- Global Resources (QR and CR) shared between more Datacenter
- Resources QR and CR for Group Scheduling Table or Smart Table
- Ehanced Autoedit Facility in script definition like JCL in z/OS
- IF / THEN / ELSE in post processing actions vs ON statements in sequential mode one after one
- Multiple ON Statements Blocks
- Improve scheduling performance
- Define best practices
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GLOBAL CONDITIONS WITHOUT EM

Post by brownbag » 02 Feb 2011 11:19

Hi Woody,
BMC can't just add an option to post global conditions without EM. EM is the component that holds all the Control-M/Servers together, so to post global conditions without EM would require some serious re-design of the whole software (or some in-house scripting).

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Post by m_v_ratnam » 07 Feb 2011 4:29

Faclity to uload and down load scheduling infromation from from CSV or XML or even some standard Retatinal database.
Will make life lot more simpler in analysing and maintaning the schdduling information in diffrent environments.

Triggreing jobs based on a MQ messages or DB triggers will enable to get away from many CICS transactions.
Ruble based triggring mus be improved , beyond console messages

hipikll

Post by hipikll » 07 Feb 2011 11:07

all mentioned +

- create a web console for EM view - not just per Datacenters

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Post by gratedsandy » 11 Feb 2011 8:07

Easy integration between BMC CTM and BMC remedy would be top on my wishlist.

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Post by mauriziog » 03 Mar 2011 9:40

To integrate dacenters as walty suggested the very important thing is:
- GLOBAL RESOURCES
- also resources at TABLE LEVEL is very usefull.
- the possibilty to RERUN at TABLE level: rerun option in table.

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The "self-service" the web gui connected to EM, is very usefull new component.

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Post by Moti_reshef » 08 Mar 2011 3:35

Thank you all for your replies.....

it is interesting that none of you complained about the NDP time.....and how to improve this mechanism.... :P

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Post by Walty » 09 Mar 2011 8:07

Hi Moti,

About this subject:

Possibility to disable the New Day Procedure (NDP)
Actually you can only change the New Day Time (delayed few hours later )
Best regards
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