IOA

The Control-M for z/OS Automated Production Control and Scheduling System is a component member of the INCONTROL family of products, a fully integrated suite designed to automate, manage and streamline operations on the z/OS mainframe.

The Integrated Operations Architecture (IOA) is at the heart of the INCONTROL family of products. IOA has a common core of shared code as the foundation of its architectural design. INCONTROL's IOA environment has several inherent design advantages, including a common user interface and a shared data repository. A key feature of the IOA environment is its integrated application design, which includes:

• integrated user notification
• management by exception
• integrated scheduling
• interdependency and interrelationship handling
• common help facility
• integrated management reporting
• common method for sharing information
• unified installation and maintenance
• unified security implementation
• open interface design

For further details, see the section about INCONTROL products and IOA in the Control-M for z/OS User Guide.