BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation; BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Instant Updates on New Packt Books; Preface; What this book covers; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. Get to Know the Concept; Introduce batch processing.

The history of batch processingBatch processing versus interactive processing; Time-based batch- and event-driven batch; Is this the end for batch processing?; Running batch processing tasks; Automating batch processing; Basic elements of a job; What to trigger; When to trigger (Job's scheduling criteria); Dependencies (Job's predecessors and dependents); More advanced features of scheduling tools; Ability to generate notifications for specified events; Ability to handle an external event-driven batch; Intelligent scheduling

decision-making based on predefined conditions; Security features.

Additional reporting, auditing, and history tracking featuresCentralized enterprise scheduling; Challenges in today's batch processing; Processing time; Batch window length; Batch monitoring and management; Cross-time zone scheduling; Resource utilization; Maintenance and troubleshooting; Reporting; Reacting to changes; The solution; Processing time and resource utilization; Batch monitoring and management; Cross-time zone scheduling; Maintenance and troubleshooting; Reporting; Reacting to changes; From batch scheduling to workload automation; Batch scheduling: Static scheduling.

The Workload Automation conceptDynamic batch processing with virtualization technology and Cloud computing; Integration with real-time system, workload reusability; Summary; 2. Exploring Control-M; Control-M overview; Control-M road map; Key features; Supported platforms; The Control-M way; Control-M job; Job conditions; Resources; Submitting jobs; Post processing; From the user's perspective

Control-M/Enterprise Manager; Control-M Enterprise Manager GUI Client; Control-M Desktop; Control-M Configuration Manager; Reporting Facility; Control-M's Optional Features; Control-M Control Modules.

Control-M/Forecast and BMC Batch Impact ManagerControl-M/Forecast; BMC Batch Impact Manager; BMC Batch Discovery; Control-M Architecture and Components; Control-M/Enterprise Manager; Control-M/Enterprise Manager Server Components; Naming Service; Control-M Configuration Server; Control-M/Enterprise Manager Configuration Agent; GUI Server; Gateway process (GTW); Global Alert Server (GAS); Global Condition Server (GCS); Control-M Web Server; Control-M/Server; Control-M/Server processes; SU: Supervisor; SL: Job Selector; TR: Job Tracker; NS: Agent Communication Process.