Handling External Events: CMEM Facility

External events are events in the system that occur outside the control of the Control-M monitor, such as the submission of a job. The Control-M Event Manager (CMEM) facility enables Control-M to respond to and handle such events.

Through rules defined online through the CMEM Rule Definition facility, which is described in in Online Facilities, the user specifies actions Control-M must perform in response to external events.

The following types of events are handled by the CMEM facility:

Table 6 Event Types Handled by CMEM

Event	Description
Job Arrival	Arrival of a job on the JES spool, from any source.
Job End	Completion of a job, regardless of its source.
Dataset Event	Either the setting of a data set disposition at deallocation time or the occurrence of a NOT CATLGD 2 event.
Step	Termination of a procedure (and optionally, a program) step.

The following actions can be performed by the CMEM facility:

force one or more Control-M jobs
For more information, see Job Ordering and Job Forcing.
add prerequisite conditions to, or delete prerequisite conditions from, the IOA Conditions file and the Control-M Resources file
stop the job in which the event occurs
invoke a Control-O rule, if Control-O is active at the site
send a message to a specified location using the Control-O SHOUT facility, if Control-O is active at the site
bring under the control of the Control-M monitor a job submitted outside the control of the Control-M monitor, such as a job submitted by a TSO user
Such a job is called an On Spool job, and the control of On Spool jobs is one of the most important functions of CMEM.

The CMEM facility, and On Spool jobs, are described in Control-M Event Manager (CMEM).

Parent Topic

Expanded Control-M Functionality