Viewpoints

A viewpoint is a customizable, dynamic tool, which enables you to display your Jobs and Job flows. For example, you can view and monitor Jobs on a particular Control-M/Server, Jobs that are for specific user, or those that have a particular status, such as Jobs that have a failure status. By limiting those Jobs that you want to view, you can simplify Job monitoring and significantly reduce processing overhead. Usually you want to monitor the exceptions.

Viewpoints are constantly updated and show in real-time, the execution status of the batch production.

NOTE: Viewpoints can only be viewed by the user that created them and cannot be shared.

You can do the following:

• Create a viewpoint, as described in Creating a Viewpoint.
• Create a viewpoint from a particular date, which enables you to review processing data that has been accumulated over a specific period of time, as described in Creating a historical viewpoint.
• Edit or Delete the viewpoint, by highlighting the relevant viewpoint and selecting Edit or Delete from the ribbon. For more information, see Viewpoint navigation.
• In the ribbon, when clicking on you quickly access saved viewpoints, add a new viewpoint, search for a Job and undertake an archive search.

After you have created a viewpoint, you can do the following:

• Analyze active Jobs and manage Job flows. You can customize viewpoints by selecting Edit Viewpoint from the ribbon.
• View the viewpoint entities in a list or tile view by clicking .
• Adjust the zoom level of the viewpoint
• View the viewpoint in a hierarchy by clicking .
• View the processing details of Jobs

  If SLA Management is installed, you can monitor Control-M actual and estimated Job executions from a glance and obtain an understanding of the Jobs runtime information that enables you to control your active environment more efficiently. For information about Job details, see Job details. The monitoring viewpoint can show you the Jobs in a flow that will start/end running and which Jobs are planned to execute in a specific time frame.

• Perform actions by intervening manually when special critical processes, and potentially problematic situations arise, as described in Job management. If you want to search for a Job without creating a viewpoint, you can search for a Job as described in Finding a Job.
• Export Jobs in list view to a csv file.

NOTE: You can view the viewpoint in tile or list view, but if you want to export the viewpoint to a csv file, select the list view and click Export.

In the CCM, the Administrator can set the number of viewpoints that can be created by changing the Maximum viewpoints a user can define parameter. If you exceed the limit, the oldest saved viewpoint is deleted. For more information about Control-M system parameters, see Control-M Web parameters.