Daily job scheduling automation

At the same time each day (known as New Day time), each Control-M/Server runs a procedure known as the New Day procedure, which performs a number of tasks, including scheduling the day’s jobs, and running maintenance and cleanup utilities. For example, before adding the day’s jobs to the Active Jobs database, the New Day procedure deletes the old jobs from the previous day.

The New Day procedure can schedule all the current day’s jobs. However, to handle job automation at large sites, it is more efficient to have the New Day procedure utilize User Daily jobs. User Daily jobs are job processing definitions. Instead of directly scheduling production jobs, the New Day procedure can schedule User Daily jobs, and those User Daily jobs can schedule the production jobs.

EXAMPLE

New Day time is at 5:00 a.m., but

• 10,000 jobs are not needed until noon
• another 20,000 jobs are not needed until 3:00 p.m.
• another 30,000 jobs are not needed until 8:00 p.m.

  Instead of all those jobs being scheduled by the New Day procedure at New Day time, the New Day procedure can schedule three User Daily jobs, defined as follows, at New Day time:

• One user daily job, which schedules the 10,000 jobs, would be submitted at noon.
• One user daily job, which schedules the 20,000 jobs, would be submitted at 3:00 p.m.
• One user daily job, which schedules the 30,000 jobs, would be submitted at 8:00 p.m.

User daily jobs provide an additional advantage. The Control-M administrator is responsible for the New Day procedure, but a site can allow different departments to be responsible for their own User Daily jobs.

On a regular clock, one day ends and a new day begins at midnight. However, you can set the New Day time according to your site’s actual business processing “working day.” For example, if New Day time is 6:00 a.m., then from 6:00 a.m. on August 4th, until 6:00 a.m. on August 5th, the working day is August 4th. The date that a job is scheduled in Control-M is called the order date. Order dates conform to the working days, not midnight to midnight calendar days.

For more information, see New Day procedure.