Control and Tracking

Central and efficient control is essential to coordinating and administering the distribution of reports to hundreds of PCs. The major aspects of control and tracking are maintained in mainframe Control-D by utilizing the recipient tree and the ATF.

The mainframe Control-D recipient tree defines the hierarchical recipient structure and also controls the following aspects of the Control-D/WebAccess Server recipient base:

• Which recipients are authorized to receive and process mainframe reports on the PC using Control-D/WebAccess Server.
• How long the reports reside on the PC – preventing accumulation of outdated reports and maintaining control of PC disk space.
• When reports may be downloaded from the mainframe to the PC – maintaining control of the load on the mainframe resources and PC-mainframe communication lines.
• Where reports reside on the PC – allowing the Control-D administrator to maintain control of data file distribution to PC disks.
• Size of the reports that may be transferred to the PC.

The Active Transfer file is accessed using the File Transfer Control screen in mainframe Control-D and provides the means to track and control the active packets.