Control-M Advanced Features and Add-Ons

The following Control-M advanced features and add-ons are automatically installed in a trial version, which enables you to use the add-on functionality. This mode is intended for testing and evaluation, not for use in production. For production, uninstall the trial version, reinstall a non-trial version, and then activate the add-ons from the add-on activation installation packages.

Advanced Feature or Add-On	Description
SLA Management	Enables you to prevent batch-related failures or external events, such as hardware and network problems, which might cause delays in batch processing affecting the completion time and accuracy of business processes. You can analyze potential delays and errors in a critical batch service, view the status of a service, and take corrective action before the business is affected. To view a description of the service status tabs, see Service Management.
Control-M/Forecast	Enables you to simulate future job run and execution behavior based on the current job definitions, scheduling criteria, and Control-M Statistics. This enables you to determine how jobs are expected to perform and why they succeed or fail.
Control-M Self Service	Enables users to view services, which are containers of jobs, and analyze the problematic services and jobs through a workflow diagram or list display in a web-based application. After users have determined what the problems are, they can resolve them by performing various service and job actions based on their authorizations.
Control-M Workload Change Manager	Enables you to do the following: Request changes to business workflows in Control-M by creating and submitting requests in the Control-M Workload Change Manager web application. Define standards that comply with your organizational standards when defining folder or job definitions in Control-M.
Control-M Workload Archiving	Enables you to automatically archive job log and output data, from both mainframe and Distributed systems, in a secure and central repository that is separate from the production environment.
Control-M Managed File Transfer	Enables you to watch and transfer files from a local host to a remote host, a remote host to a local host, or a remote host to another remote host.
Control-M MFT Enterprise	Control-M MFT Enterprise B2B is an MFT add-on that enables you to securely transfer and receive files to and from external users outside of your organization. Internal users can transfer files externally with File Transfer jobs, while external users transfer files to and from your organization via a BMC-provided web application or third-party FTP client.
Workflow Insights	Enables you to track and monitor business workflow metrics over time via various dashboards. Each dashboard exposes insights about specific areas such as SLA Management Services, workflow health, workflow job trends and peak usages, and optimization insights. These insights enable you to stay in control of your business workflows performance over time, set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and track them, to ensure continued improvement.

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SLA Management is a Control-M advanced feature that enables you monitor critical workflows and determine the impact of a potential delay or failure. If an SLA Management job expects a delay to occur, based on Control-M Statistics, Control-M sends you an alert that enables you to analyze what actions you can take to minimize or prevent the delay, as described in Service Management, and SLA Management Job.

Control-M Statistics includes start time, end time, execution time (runtime), and standard deviation estimations from records of past job executions, which are saved on Control-M/EM and Control-M/Server. Runtime estimations are based on the average job execution time, but the two highest and lowest statistics are not included in this average, to remove extreme results and provide a more accurate estimate.

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Control-M/Forecast is a Control-M add-on that simulates future job run and execution behavior based on the current job definitions, scheduling criteria, and Control-M Statistics. This enables you to determine how jobs are expected to perform and why they succeed or fail.

After you create a forecast, you can add one or more What-If Scenarios to simulate how future job runs and executions will perform under different circumstances, based on job definitions or scheduling criteria that differ from what is currently defined.

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Control-M Self Service is a Control-M advanced feature that enables you to view your services with a web-based application and analyze the problematic services and jobs. After you have determined what the problems are, you can resolve them by performing various service and job actions, depending on your authorizations. The following tasks are included in setting up Control-M Self Service:

Log in to Control-M Self Service through the URL on Windows as follows:

http://<Control-M/EM_Server_Host_Name>:<Web_Server_Port >/SelfService

where the default web server port is 18080.
Configure the Self_Service_Server and Control-M Self Service system parameters from the Control-M Configuration Manager, as described in Control-M Self Service system parameters.
Create service definitions or service rules from the Service Manager, as described in Service Definition.
Enable SSL security, as described in SSL Management.

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Control-M Workload Change Manager (WCM) is a Control-M add-on that enables you to do the following:

WCM Web Users, such as application developers and analysts, can make changes to a Control-M Workspace or workflow, and submit their changes to a Control-M Scheduler for review.
Control-M Schedulers can review the request, communicate with the Web User via Notes, return the request to the Web User for changes, or approve the changes and check in the new Workspace or workflow. For more information, see Submitting a Workspace as a Request.
Control-M Administrators can create Site Standards that enforce organizational rules when Control-M Schedulers and Web Users create jobs and define or change folder and job definitions. For more information, see Site Standards.

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Control-M Workload Archiving is a Control-M add-on that enables you to automatically archive job log and output data from mainframe and Distributed systems, in a secure and central repository that is separate from the production environment.

The Workload Archiving server archives job logs and job output on an external PostgreSQL or Oracle database for a defined period of time, based on user-defined Workload Archiving Policies, as described in Workload Archiving Configuration. This enables you to meet organizational audit and compliance requirements, troubleshoot your environment with historical data, and enable or disable users from accessing the archived data, based on Control-M/EM authorizations, as described in User and Role Authorizations.

Control-M Workload Archiving is installed on a Control-M/EM distributed host that is connected to an external PostgreSQL or Oracle database, as described in Control-M Workload Archiving Installation.

Control-M Workload Archiving requires a separate Control-M/EM Distributed host for each Workload Archiving instance that you install. Each Workload Archiving server accesses the same external PostgreSQL or Oracle database, which enables you to archive jobs faster and provides a high availability active-active solution to your Control-M Workload Archiving environment.

If you install multiple Workload Archiving instances you must set all the Workload Archiving components desired state to UP in the Control-M Configuration Manager.
The date and time on additional distributed Control-M/EM machines must be synced with each other.

The following procedures describe how to search, duplicate, compare, export, and save archive data: