Quantitative Resources

A quantitative resource represents a measure that can be quantified such as percentage of CPU, megabytes of storage, or number of tape drives. It provides the ability to avoid overwhelming the physical and logical resources in an environment by limiting the number of Jobs that use the same resource at the same time.

There are two parts to the process:

• From the Tools domain, in the Quantitative Resource window, you define the total quantity of Quantitative Resources for relevant Control-M/Servers.
• In the Job Properties, you define how much of that resource should be used in the Jobs running on that Control-M/Server. To define a quantitative resource for a Job, see Allocating Quantitative Resources.

When a Quantitative Resource is specified for a Job, Control-M determines whether a sufficient quantity of the specified resource is available before submitting the Job. When the Job is submitted, the specified quantity of resource is assigned to that Job and is not available to other Jobs. When the Job finishes executing, the resource is made available to other Jobs.

In the Quantitative Resources tool you can view the following:

• All the quantitative resources that currently exist or are in use in the production environment.
• Create a quantitative resource for a Control-M/Server as described in Creating a Quantitative Resource.
• Filter the display criteria
• The total number of quantitative resources that are being used

You can use Quantitative Resources in combination with Control Resources to prioritize jobs and have a high degree of control over the workflow. For more information, see Control Resources.