Forecast

Control-M/Forecast adds forecasting capabilities to Control-M, that enables you estimate your scheduling environment behavior with respect to specific dates in the future. Both graphic and tabular representations of the forecast provide the future dates where a job or a folder is predicted to be submitted. In addition, Control-M/Forecast generates an estimate of the full production flow for a future date, as an enterprise-wide view.

Control-M/Forecast bases its projections on Control-M/Server's new day procedures and user dailies. Control-M/Forecast analyzes folder, user daily jobs, calendars, job dependencies (in and out conditions), time execution windows, Control-M time zone settings, resources and priorities in the Control-M/EM database and, based on existing statistics, estimates how jobs will run on specific days.

You can use the util utility to import and export history and forecast information.

The following procedures describe how to use the Forecast domain:

• Define a Specific User Daily job: Describes how to define specific user daily to a folder, which enables large sites to balance their daily jobs throughout the day
• Revise job run time: Describes how to use Forecast/BIM rules as exceptions to revise the job run time, that is used for job calculation
• Simulate your job flow: Describes how to simulate your job flow for a specific day by setting up a Forecast Workspace, create What-If scenarios, and analyze the jobs and services
• Create a What-if scenario: Describes how to examine the effects of potential changes to the scheduling environment