Interaction With Other INCONTROL Products

Since Control-M/Tape is part of the INCONTROL family of products, Control-M/Tape capabilities influence, and are influenced by, other INCONTROL products.

Prerequisite conditions automate the scheduling of events between INCONTROL products. The user can establish dependencies between media access and other events.

Control-M/Tape can assign values to AutoEdit variables. AutoEdit variables can be saved in a member that can also be referenced by other INCONTROL products.

Control-M/Tape media analysis can automatically trigger Control-O rules, that can then perform Control-O automation tasks. Media analysis can also affect the processes of other INCONTROL products.

Control-M/Restart can automatically trigger the scratching of data sets in Control-M/Tape as part of the restart process.

Figure 1 Interaction With Other INCONTROL Products

For example, the diagram above illustrates the following:

• A job, JOB A, creates two data sets on volume VOL 1. The first data set (DATASET1) is created in Step 1. The second data set (DATASET2) is created in Step 2.
• Step 2 of JOB A abends or ends NOT OK.
• Control-M/Restart automatically restarts JOB A and notifies Control-M/Tape that DATASET2 should be expired.
• Control-M/Tape immediately expires DATASET2.

The integrated INCONTROL environment, and resultant synchronization between the products, provides extensive automated operations capabilities.