Limitations (CTMTLB)

Due to current limitations in Control-M Desktop, the user should be aware of the following issues when creating the DAXML file for the Control-M/EM z/OS platform:

• The following job scheduling parameters and features, which can be defined in Control-M for z/OS, are not supported. They will be ignored by the deftable utility:
  • PIPE
  • Control-M/Analyzer rules and missions for the START and END parameters
  • more than 41 CODES in ON blocks
  • TASKTYPE=WRN
  • skip DUE-IN time checking
• The following features, which are acceptable in the Control-M for z/OS environment, produce deftable validation errors:
  • coding both DO ACTION="NOTOK" and DO ACTION="RERUN" in the same ON statement
  • an ON statement that does not contain at least one DO statement

  If these errors are encountered, the user must modify his Control-M for z/OS scheduling definitions and rerun the utility.

• The BIM-SETVAR job scheduling parameter in Control-M/EM is not supported, and will be ignored by the deftable utility.

When creating XML files for distributed platforms (UNIX, AIX, Microsoft Windows NT, and so on), various z/OS job scheduling parameters are not relevant or supported. In addition, there are Control-M/EM distributed parameters that have no corresponding parameters on the z/OS platform. For full details, see the Control-M Job Parameter and Variable Reference Guide.

See CTMTLB Program Control parameters and CTMTLB Example 2 to see how the CTMTLB utility copes with this situation.