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Quantitative Resources

Specification of Quantitative resource requirements for a job provides a solution for the allocation of quantitative computer resources, such as cartridge drives, CPU utilization, and database access-rate. It increases computer throughput by controlling access to these resources, thus preventing execution bottlenecks.

Control-M maintains a continuously updated status of the Quantitative resources of the site in the Control-M Resources file.

When a Quantitative resource is specified for a job, Control-M determines if a sufficient quantity of the specified resource is available before submitting the job. When the job is submitted, the specified quantity of resource is allocated to that job and is unavailable to other jobs. When the job finishes executing, the resource is made available to other jobs.

The quantity of each resource that is available in the data center is specified using Control-M utilities. An authorized user can dynamically change these quantities manually from the IOA Conditions/Resources screen.

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Quantitative and Control Resources