Managing User Daily Jobs from Control-M/EM

The content of User Daily jobs executing in an MVS datacenter can also be managed from the Control‑M/Enterprise Manager which runs on a Windows platform. Special User Daily jobs must be defined for this purpose. They provide a means by which the following functions can be performed from Control‑M/EM:

• Add a table residing in a specific library to an existing user daily job.
• Change the location of a table by moving it from one user daily job to another.
• Delete a table from a user daily job.

For more information, see the Control‑M User Guide (for Control‑M/EM).

By default, the EMUSDLY parameter, in the CTMPARM member, is set to Y, enabling the processing of these Special User Daily Jobs. Since IOA Global variables store the User Daily data uploaded from Control‑M/EM, the necessary global variable database structures and either Control‑M Event Manager or Control-O must be active for the processing of the Special User Daily Jobs. (If for some reason this is a problem, then the EMUSDLY parameter must be set to N.) In addition to the Special User Daily jobs, which are processed using the CTMEMUDL procedure, those tables that are specified from Control‑M/EM to run automatically (and are therefore marked as SYSTEM tables) are also processed as part of the New Day procedure. It is the responsibility of the Control-M Administrator to schedule the execution of the other User Daily jobs. For more information, see the INCONTROL for z/OS Installation Guide.

Use the following JCL template to run the CTMEMUDL procedure:

Before issuing the command replace userdailyname with a 10 character name referring to a set of tables to be ordered in the AJF.

The CTMEMUDL procedure generates ORDER statements for all tables belonging to the Control‑M/EM User Daily job, userdailyname. The ORDER statements are subsequently processed by the CTMJOB utility, which places the jobs in the AJF.

To view the contents of a specific Control-M/EM User Daily job, use the LIST option as shown in the following command:

To view the contents of all Control‑M/EM User Daily jobs, use the '*,LIST' option as shown in the following command:

Note: The Control M/EM Automatic (System) Daily and User Dailies should not be used for more than a few ad-hoc folders and should not be considered as a replacement to the standard mainframe dailies using CTMJOB. Using the Control M/EM dailies is significantly less efficient.