Customizing the New Day procedure

This procedure describes how to customize the New Day procedure using the ctmsys utility.

To Customize the New day procedure:

1. From the CONTROL-M System Maintenance Utility Main Menu, select System Parameters.

   The CONTROL-M System Parameters menu appears.

2. You can change any of the following:
   • New day time (Day Time)
   • Retention period for Control-M/Server logs (Maximum Days Retained by Control-M Log)
   • Retention period for Control-M/Server Output files (Maximum Days to Retain Output Files)
   • Ignore New Day Conditions

     NOTE: BMC recommends that you not change the default. If you change the Ignore New Day Conditions to Y, edit or create a file in the home directory of the Control-M owner account: ~<controlm_owner>/ctm_server/data/dbs_ignrcond.dat. Ensure the file contains the list of prefixes of prerequisite conditions, and/or including masks, that should not be deleted by the New Day procedure. Prerequisite condition names are case-sensitive; the mask character * and ? are supported.

3. Set the configuration parameter values in the Control-M/Server configuration parameter file (~<controlm_owner>/ctm_server/data/config.dat on the server computer), as follows:
   • Define whether the New Day procedure should clean up (delete) job runtime statistics, by running the ctmruninf utility. (You can also run this utility manually, and use the utility to display runtime statistics summaries.)

     By default, the New Day procedure cleans up statistics (the STATISTICS_CLEANUP_IN_NEWDAY configuration parameter is set to Y). To speed up the New Day procedure, set the STATISTICS_CLEANUP_IN_NEWDAY configuration parameter to N, but periodically run ctmruninf - PURGE manually. For information, see ctmruninf.

   • Define whether the New Day procedure should clean up (delete) Output files and unneeded user exit status files from Control-M/Agent computers (using the ctmagcln utility.)

     By default, the New Day procedure cleans up the Output and User exit status file (the AGENTS_CLEANUP_IN_NEWDAY configuration parameter is set to Y). To speed up the New Day procedure, set the AGENTS_CLEANUP_IN_NEWDAY configuration parameter to N, but to periodically run the ctmagcln utility manually. For information, see ctmagcln.

   NOTE: If any folders need to be ordered by the New Day procedure (instead of User daily jobs), associate them with the Order Method, Specific User Daily and SYSTEM User daily Name in Control-M .