Folders

Folders are containers that help you organize your job processing definitions. Some jobs are scheduled daily, others monthly or quarterly. Folders help you organize and store jobs with similar schedules. When you define a job, you associate it with a particular scheduling folder. You can define as many scheduling folders as you need, and you assign each scheduling folder to a specific Control-M/Server.

You can define the following types of folders:

• Regular folder: A folder that contains jobs with similar scheduling criteria. Jobs in a regular folder are processed independently of each other. Each job is handled according to the parameters in its own job definition. For more information, see Creating a folder.
• SMART folder: A folder that contains an extended set of definition parameters that are applied to the jobs as a whole. For more information, see Creating a folder.
• Sub folder: A folder nested inside a SMART folder. For more information, see Creating a Sub Folder.

EXAMPLE: You can define post-processing tasks that Control-M should perform when all the jobs in a SMART folder successfully end. The submission criteria of the jobs are now dependent on the scheduling parameters of the folder.

For more information on how to create a folder, see Creating a folder.