Introduction to Control-M Workload Change Manager

Control-M Workload Change Manager is a Control-M add-on. You can access Control-M Workload Change Manager through Control-M Web, Planning domain. In the Planning domain, you can do the following:

• View and manage Control-M jobs and folders in a Control-M Workspace.
• Load existing jobs and folders to the Planning Workspace editor.
• Create, edit and submit job definitions to a Control-M Scheduler.
• Create, edit and check-in job definitions to the Control-M database.
• Order individual jobs/folders or Workspaces.
• Integrate the Control-M Web Planning domain (WCM) with a change management system.
• Enables a Control-M Scheduler to automatically transfer folders and jobs between environments, as described in Promotion.

A Control-M Administrator creates site standards, as described in Site standards management, and then assigns the standards to folders, as described in Assigning a Site standard to a folder/folders. This ensures that when web users, and schedulers define jobs, the job definitions comply with your organization's standards.

Using these standards, web users can create business job flows using a web interface. The web user can either submit the job flow as a request, or check it in to be part of the Control-M Database.

If the web user submits the job flow as a request, the Control-M scheduler receives these requests through Control-M. The requests appear in the Planning-Home page along with his other Workspaces and workflow. For more information on the request workspace, see Request Workspace. The Control-M scheduler works together with the web user, easily communicating through Notes, to review and approve business workflow requests. After the request is approved, the Control-M scheduler checks-in the request to be part of the Control-M database.

As a Control-M Administrator, you can do the following to set up Control-M Workload Change Manager:

• Install Control-M, as described in Control-M Workload Change Manager installation.
• Configure Control-M Workload Change Manager system parameters and authorizations, as described in Control-M Workload Change Manager setup in CCM.
• Define settings and standards, as described in Control-M Workload Change Manager setup in the Control-M client.

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