Creating a Sub-Folder

This procedure describes how to create a sub-folder in a WorkspaceA working area in the Planning domain where you define new jobs and folders or edit existing jobs and folders. Sub-folders and jobs inherit the parameters that you define at folder level.

Begin

From the Center Pane Toolbar, click and from the drop-down list, drag and drop a Folder into the Workspace.
From the drop-down list, drag and drop a further folder into the folder to create a sub-folder.
From the Edit tab, define one or more of the following:
- General: Defines information about the sub-folder, as described in Sub-folder General Parameters.
- Scheduling: Defines scheduling parameters for the sub-folder, as described in Sub-folder Scheduling Attributes.
- Prerequisites: Defines the prerequisitesThe part of the job definition that controls the flow of your jobs, such as an event that controls sequence or a resource that controls load for the sub-folder to execute, as described in Prerequisites.
- Actions: Defines the actions that Control-M performs after the sub- folder has executed, as described in Actions.
Add a job to your folder, as described in Creating a Job.

Sub-folder General Parameters

The following table describes the General parameters for a sub-folder:

Parameter	Description
Folder Name	Defines the name of the folder. Rules: Characters: 1-64 Case Sensitive: Yes Invalid Characters: Blanks, single quotation marks, $, /, *, ?, " The name of a job must be unique within each folder. The job cannot have the same name as the parent folder or sub-folder. To include a parenthesis -) or (-precede it with a slash:/( or/).
Description	Defines a description of the sub-folder using free text. Rules: Characters: 1-4000 Case Sensitive: Yes
Server	Defines the name of the Server that processes the sub-folder.
Run as	Defines the username with the authorization to execute jobs in the sub-folder. Rules: Characters: 1-30 Case Sensitive: Yes Invalid Characters: Blank, single quotation marks
Parent Folder	Defines the name of the parent folder.
Application	Defines a descriptive name for related job groups. The jobs do not have to run at the same time. Rules: Case Sensitive: Yes Invalid Characters: Blanks, single quote marks
Sub Application	Defines a logical name for the Sub-application. Rules: Characters: 1-64 Case Sensitive: Yes Invalid Characters: Blanks, single quote marks Application=Finance, and Sub-application= Payroll.
Variables	Determines the variable type, name, and value, as described in Variables. Rules: Characters: 1-40 Value: 1-4000 Invalid Characters : Latin-1 special character letters (upper and lower case) If you include %% in the value for a job definition attribute, Control-M treats this as a variableA name and value pair that you can reference in your job processing definition, which Control-M resolves for the current execution of the job.
Created By	Defines the Control‑M user who created the sub-folder. Rules: Characters: 1-64 Case Sensitive: Yes Invalid Characters: Blanks, single quotation marks
Documentation	Defines the location of the documentation of the folder.
Type	Determines whether the documentation for the sub-folder is in a file or URL, as follows: URL: Saves the documentation in the URL that you provide in the URL field. The format of the URL address must start with: http://, https://, ftp://, file:// File: Saves the documentation in a file that you specify in the Doc Path and Doc File fields. Doc Path rules: Characters: 1-255 Case sensitive: Yes Doc File rules: Characters: 1-64 Case Sensitive: Yes Invalid Characters: Blanks
Priority	Determines the order that Control-M processes jobs. A higher priority forces Control-M to reserve resources from the Resource PoolA type of quantifiable resource, which represents the total amount of resources from a physical or logical device that a folder, sub-folder, or job can access to ensure that the job is submitted as soon as possible.