making of Newday procedure more effective

k2p6v5s · Post by **k2p6v5s** » 13 Mar 2011 7:25

Hello All,

i want to know things/attributes need to set/modified to make the new day procedure most effective.

we have control-m environment with 25,000 jobs run every day and 2000 to 3000 jobs are cyclic jobs with max wait 99.

it takes more than 15 mins to complete new day procedure.

Any help/advice appreciated and awaiting reply.

thanks,
Sairam KPV

markf · Post by **markf** » 14 Mar 2011 11:58

Well the best "trick" is to split them up into separate User Dailies (the manual mentions this). Say you have several tables where the jobs run much later than the rest then it makes sense to spin those off into their own User Daily.

Individual jobs can also slow the NDP if you use lots of 'clever' settings for things like priorities - so maybe review your use of these. I also try and keep the system cleaned up (e.g. delete conditions inside jobs once you have finsihed with them) and that helps.

ejtoedtli · Post by **ejtoedtli** » 16 Mar 2011 9:25

Have you looked at your log to see what piece of New Day is taking all of the time? This could provide you a good place to start looking for the issue. We load about 5000 jobs per day. Less than 100 of then have an AJF retention greater than one day. It takes about 4 minutes for our New Day process to run. (Control-M 6.3 on UNIX).

We also try to not have any jobs scheduled to run during New Day. The first cyclic jobs (most of our jobs are cyclic) of the day are not scheduled to start running until 00:07. New day completes at 00:03. And start times for these are staggered over a 10 minute window so that we don't try to start thousands of jobs at the same time.

Eric T.

SreeMahi · Post by **SreeMahi** » 17 Mar 2011 5:34

the best way to reduce the NDP time is "to use different User Daily" for tables. Next thing is make "house keeping activities" in place to clear all Prerequisite conditions and Global conditions (you can implement this at the end of each batch work flow).

k2p6v5s · Post by **k2p6v5s** » 24 Mar 2011 8:33

Hi All,

Thanks for the reply and appreciated..all these conditions/scenarios has been looked and we are following best implementation.
current server is not dedicated to only to the contorl-m .So that server loading also need to checked that time of new day procedure or might be load balancing required.

Can anyone suggest tips and tricks to be followed in implementing load balancing mechanism in control-m:?: ??????

Please share your experiences ..those will help me lot..

Awaiting for reply