The New Day procedure is the start of the Control-M/Server day and is performed once a day at a predefined time (see Control-M/Server component parameters). The New Day process performs clean-up, purges old jobs, and loads the new jobs for the day. For example, you can delete unneeded prerequisite conditions that were not deleted. During the New Day procedure, the Control-M/Server processes shut down and do not start up again until New is complete.
The New Day procedure performs the following:
After the New Day process is complete the Control-M/Server resumes processing.
Since the Control-M/Server processes shut down and no new processes take place during New day, it is more efficient to have the New Day process utilize a mechanism called User Daily jobs. Instead of directly scheduling production jobs, the New Day process can schedule User Daily jobs, and those User Daily jobs can schedule the production jobs. A User Daily job executes the ctmudly utility and passes a User Daily value to it. The utility orders all folders associated with a specific User Daily name.
The ctmorder utility performs job scheduling from a folder in the Control-M/Server database. You can manually run this utility or define a job to run this utility. For more information, see ctmorder.
For more information on all utilities for the New Day process, see New day procedure and user dailies.
It is recommended that you define User Daily jobs to execute after New Day processing is completed to minimize processing overload early in the day. In this case, the New Day process evaluates folders that have automatic daily order method definitions and orders in folders that meet the scheduling criteria, and then after New Day is completed, specific user daily order method folders are ordered in once they meet their scheduling criteria.
To see a detailed video of the New Day process, see New day process.
NOTE: Control-M/Server utilities that affect and modify the Active Jobs File, such as utilities that modify running jobs, must not execute during New Day. Modifying the Active Jobs File can cause the New Day to fail in cleaning and ordering new jobs.
NOTE: If you change the value of the Daytime system parameter, cyclic jobs in the Active environment that are defined with a From Time value that is between the old Daytime value and the new Daytime value, wait until the new From Time value is reached. The new From Time value is taken from the definition of the job.
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