Control-M/Assist is a solution set designed for customers that use a third-party scheduling product on their mainframe (that is, a scheduler other than Control-M for Z/OS), but that use Control-M for Distributed Systems (Control-M/Server and Control-M/EM) in their distributed environment.
It enables these customers to control and track the entire scheduling enterprise, including the Z/OS environment, through Control-M/EM.
Control-M/Assist does the following:
detects jobs submitted manually or by a non-Control-M scheduler into the batch workload of the z/OS environment.
automatically forces the schedule definition of those jobs into the active environment of Control-M.
utilizes the job scheduling definitions forced into the Control-M Active Environment to control and define the processing logic that should be executed for that job, for example, creating shout and alerts messages, handling the job SYSOUT, and sending an e-mail.
enables you to monitor the jobs are forced into the Control-M Active Environment, through the centralized control station of Control-M/EM. Using Control-M/EM. For more information, see Monitoring mainframe jobs from Control-M/EM.
enables you to create bidirectional jobs dependencies among jobs on any platform (UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and so on) in the distributed environment and jobs in the z/OS environment. For more information, see Creating dependencies between cross-platform jobs.
