Promotion

Control-M Workload Change Manager's Promotion feature enables you to automatically transfer folders and jobs between environments, such as moving from a test environment to a production environment. After you have finished working on job definitions in a source environment, you can move folders and jobs to the target environment, while the data is automatically transferred according to your predefined  Promotion rules.

You can perform a promotion between environments, using one of the following promotion types:

• Promotion request: Enables you to send a promotion request from the source environment to the target environment. The scheduler who is responsible for the target environment opens your request, reviews it, and checks it in. The request is sent to the Unassigned Work section in the Planning home page. For more information, see Taking ownership of a request
• Promote and check-in: Enables you to send the request to the target environment and automatically checks in folders after promotion, without any intervention from the scheduler.

  NOTE: Validation errors or warnings can occur after modification rules are applied to the folder, if for example, a mandatory job field is missing. If there are validation errors, you can either fix the errors before sending the request or send the request with errors by using the Promotion request option. For more information, see Promoting a workspace.

You can promote as a batch process by using emwacli for promotion.

EXAMPLE:

Todd, a Control-M Administrator defines two environments:

• Testing Environment
• Production Environment

  Todd grants Dan, a scheduler, promotion request privileges.

  Dan defines a job in the testing environment and passes the job to Rob, the business user, for testing. After Rob approves the job, Dan promotes the job to David, a Production Controller, to the production environment. David completes the review, takes ownership and checks in the workspace.

NOTE:

• The Control-M/EM server on both environments must be in the same major release version or compatibility version. For more information, see Promotion scenarios and Upgrading and promoting simultaneously.
• If the Control-M/EM target environment is different than the Control-M/EM source environment, the site standard validation is applied according to the target environment. For more information, see Site standards management.
• The Control-M/Server target version must be the same as the Control-M/Server source version.

To view the promotion feature overview video, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz5ORcFTR68&feature=youtu.be.