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Control-M Automation API is a set of programmatic interfaces that give developers and DevOps engineers access to the capabilities of Control-M within the modern application release process. Job flows and related configuration objects are built in JSON and managed together with other application artifacts in any source code management solution, such as GIT. This approach enables capabilities such as sophisticated scheduling, flow control, and SLA management to be built in right from inception and used during the running of batch applications as they are automatically deployed in dev, test, and production environments.
Control-M Automation API provides an automated interface to Control-M in addition to the graphical user interfaces that have been used traditionally. With Control-M Automation API, you manage job workflows as code, similar to the way modern configuration management solutions manage infrastructure as code. The actual execution of batch jobs is managed by Control‑M. No prior experience with Control-M is required to write jobs.
You can use a Command Line Interface or the REST API to build, run, and test jobs against an existing Control-M instance. A local workbench provides initial job flow unit testing functions, which are a subset of the complete set of Control-M capabilities. Once your flows are ready, you can check them into your source control system with the rest of your project files. The Automation API provides services to package and deploy job flows to the Control-M environment. Control-M schedules and operates on the most recently deployed flows.
Additionally, Control-M Automation API provides services to provision Control-M/Agent machines, configure host groups, and more.
For the full documentation for Control-M Automation API, including installation information, tutorials, a JSON code reference, and full descriptions of API commands, see the Control-M Automation API online documentation.