Control-M Advanced Features and Add-Ons

The following Control-M advanced features and add-ons are automatically installed in a trial version, which enables you to use the add-on functionality. This mode is intended for testing and evaluation, not for use in production. For production, uninstall the trial version, reinstall a non-trial version, and then activate the add-ons from the add-on activation installation packages.

Advanced Feature or Add-On	Description
SLA Management	Enables you to prevent batch-related failures or external events, such as hardware and network problems, which might cause delays in batch processing affecting the completion time and accuracy of business processes. You can analyze potential delays and errors in a critical batch service, view the status of a service, and take corrective action before the business is affected. To view a description of the service status tabs, see Service Management.
Control-M/Forecast	Enables you to simulate future job run and execution behavior based on the current job definitions, scheduling criteria, and Control-M Statistics. This enables you to determine how jobs are expected to perform and why they succeed or fail.
Control-M Self Service	Enables users to view services, which are containers of jobs, and analyze the problematic services and jobs through a workflow diagram or list display in a web-based application. After users have determined what the problems are, they can resolve them by performing various service and job actions based on their authorizations.
Control-M Workload Archiving	Enables you to automatically archive job log and output data, from both mainframe and Distributed systems, in a secure and central repository that is separate from the production environment.
Control-M Managed File Transfer	Enables you to watch and transfer files from a local host to an Agentless Host, an Agentless Host to a local host, or an Agentless Host to another Agentless Host.
Control-M MFT Enterprise	Control-M MFT Enterprise B2B is an MFT add-on that enables you to securely transfer and receive files to and from external users outside of your organization. Internal users can transfer files externally with File Transfer jobs, while external users transfer files to and from your organization via a BMC-provided web application or third-party FTP client.

SLA Management

SLA Management is a Control-M advanced feature that enables you monitor critical workflows and determine the impact of a potential delay or failure. If an SLA Management job expects a delay to occur, based on Control-M Statistics, Control-M sends you an alert that enables you to analyze what actions you can take to minimize or prevent the delay, as described in Service Management, SLA Management Job, and Periodic Statistics Rules.

Control-M Statistics includes start time, end time, execution time (runtime), and standard deviation estimations from records of past job executions, which are saved on Control-MSaaS and Control-M/Server. Runtime estimations are based on the average job execution time, but the two highest and lowest statistics are not included in this average, to remove extreme results and provide a more accurate estimate.

Control-M/Forecast

Control-M/Forecast is a Control-M advanced feature that simulates future job run and execution behavior based on the current job definitions, scheduling criteria, and Control-M Statistics. This enables you to determine how jobs are expected to perform and why they succeed or fail.

After you create a forecast, you can add one or more What-If Scenarios to simulate how future job runs and executions will perform under different circumstances, based on job definitions or scheduling criteria that differ from what is currently defined. For more information, see Control-M/Forecast.

Control-M Self Service

Control-M Self Service is a Control-M advanced feature that enables you to view your services with a web-based application and analyze the problematic services and jobs. After you have determined what the problems are, you can resolve them by performing various service and job actions, depending on your authorizations. The following tasks are included in setting up Control-M Self Service:

• Log in to Control-M Self Service through the URL on Windows as follows:

  http://<Control-M/EM_Server_Host_Name>:<Web_Server_Port>/SelfService

  where the default <Web_Server_Port> is 18080.

• Configure the Self Service system parameters, as described in Control-M Self Service Parameters.

• Create service definitions or service rules from the Service Manager, as described in Service Definitions.

• Enable SSL security, as described in Control-M SSL Configuration.

Control-M Workload Archiving

Control-M Workload Archiving is a Control-M add-on that enables you to automatically archive job log and output data from mainframe and Distributed systems, in a secure and central repository that is separate from the production environment.

The Workload Archiving server archives job logs The activity log of a job, which lists every job status change, such as job execution start and completion times, and how the job ended. and job output A tab in the job properties pane of the Monitoring domain where the job output appears that indicates whether a job ended OK, and is used, for example, with jobs that check file location. on an external PostgreSQL or Oracle database for a defined period of time, based on user-defined Workload Archiving Policies, as described in Control-M Workload Archiving Configuration. This enables you to meet organizational audit and compliance requirements, troubleshoot your environment with historical data, and enable or disable users from accessing the archived data, based on Control-M/EM authorizations, as described in User and Role Authorizations.

Control-M Workload Archiving is installed on a Control-M/EM distributed host that is connected to an external PostgreSQL or Oracle database, as described in Control-M Workload Archiving Installation.

Control-M Workload Archiving requires a separate Control-M/EM Distributed host for each Workload Archiving instance that you install. Each Workload Archiving server accesses the same external PostgreSQL or Oracle database, which enables you to archive jobs faster and provides a high availability active-active solution to your Control-M Workload Archiving environment.

The following procedures describe how to search, duplicate, compare, export, and save archive data:

• Searching for Archive Data

• Duplicating Archive Search Results

• Comparing Archived Jobs

• Exporting Archived Data

• Saving Archive Data