High Availability

Control-M High Availability enables you to maximize your production environment uptime and prevent data loss in the event of a hardware maintenance or failure.

When using an Oracle or MSSQL database, in the case of a hardware issue or if all processes are unexpectedly down, you can perform either an automatic or manual failover for both Control-M/EM and Control-M/Server. Once the problem is fixed, you can fall back to the primary host.

When using a Control-M PostgreSQL database, the database can be replicated. If there is a hardware issue, you can perform a manual failover to a secondary Control-M server, and later, when the problem is fixed, you can fallback to the primary Control-M server.

Automated Agent deployment

Upgrade one or many agents to 9.0.00 and future versions of fix packs in just a few simple steps.  Options are available to transfer the package to agents and deploy at a later time, or automatically transfer and deploy in a single step.

Automated Client deployment

The new Client deployment utility replaces the WebLaunch tool in previous Control-M versions. Use the Client deployment utility to easily distribute full client installation packages, fix packs and patches to users. Set policies to force users to apply update packages by a specific date.

Control-M Configuration Manager (CCM) enhancements

The CCM user interface has been updated to improve user experience.
In addition, the following components are now managed by the Control-M/EM Configuration Agent and appears in the CCM:

• Database
• Naming Server (NS)
• Configuration Management Server (CMS)
• Control-M Workload Archiving

The Configuration Agent starts up all the required components. You no longer have to start up the CMS, NS or PostgreSQL database (if installed).

Promotion between environments

Promotion between environments is a new capability of the Control-M Workload Change Manager that enables you to move job definitions between environments, such as from a development environment to a production environment. During the promotion process, the job definitions are modified and validated according the Site Standards of the target environment.

Runtime estimations

With Control-M Batch Impact Manager, you can now see the estimated runtimes of all the jobs in a regular viewpoint without them being defined as a part of a Batch Impact Manager service.

Usage Alerts

Keep an eye on your task usage with Usage Alerts, available from within the CCM. Define task usage alert thresholds across all of your Control-M/EMs. Exceeding a threshold will send an email alert.

Security enhancements

The SSL certificate deployment capability extends the packaging and deployment of SSL security certificates with an option to specify an external Certificate Authority.

Improved security algorithms

Control-M Enterprise Manager password hashed using SHA-512.

SSL support for:

• AES suite ciphers (128 bit and 256 bit)
• RSA keys with length 2048, 3072 and 4096
• SHA-2 hashing (on Enterprise Manager Client-Server communication)

NFS support for Control-M Server and Control-M Agent installation

You can now install Control-M/Server and Control-M Agents on NFS.

IPv6 communication

IPv6 support, including support for mixed IPv4 and IPv6 environments, is now available for the following components:

• Control-M Agent and Agentless
• Control-M Server
• Control-M Mainframe
• Control-M Enterprise Management - Server, Clients

Additional options to enhance the power of your enterprise scheduling

• Improved monitoring and troubleshooting for the job flows that span on multiple days. You can now configure the active environment retention period for a SMART folder so the Smart Folder itself and its jobs are kept in the active environment until the end of the period.
• Ability to order jobs on remote Control-M Servers by setting an action in a job to trigger another job on a different Control-M/Server and also pass variables as a part of the order operation.
• Ability to share information between jobs by extracting data from a job output and passing it to other jobs as a variable. Additional granularity of the variables is introduced as well, allowing to define variables in groups called "named pools", in addition to global and local variables.
• z/OS customers can use the following additional tools on the user interface:

  View, edit and manage CMEM rules from the user interface

  Set up a graphic indication on the job node for the pre-execution state

What If Host simulation

New capability for Control-M Batch Impact Manager and Forecast to simulate the influence of the unavailability of a specific Control-M Agent or a group of Control-M Agents on your job flows, and prepare for planned shutdowns and maintenance windows.

Global Calendars

You can now save time and reduce the efforts invested in calendar management by creating a single calendar in the Control-M Enterprise Manager that will be distributed to all the Control-M Servers.

Bookmarks

You can bookmark the jobs in a workspace or a viewpoint to analyze flows and easily locate jobs. Bookmarks are supported in the Planning, Monitoring, Forecast, and History domains.

Export flow diagram to a file

You can now export flow diagrams to a Microsoft Visio-compatible EMF format from any domain. Just click the Save as option in the application File menu.

Enhanced search when loading jobs to a workspace

You can now view more fine-tuned search results when loading jobs into a workspace in the Planning domain by filtering folders and jobs with a larger variety of fields.

Online Help on Web server

The online help is now available from the Control-M Web server.

NOTE: Verify that the Web server is up.

Multiple Application plug-ins installation

You can now install Application plug-ins from the Control-M full installation DVD.