Tools

Control-M contains tools that provide enhanced functionality and gives you unlimited control over every aspect of job definition and execution in your environment.

The following table describes the available tools that you can access from Tools domain or from the Tools menu in the Planning, Monitoring, History, and Forecast domains:

Tool	Description

Options	Enables you to customize settings for the Control-M client.
Planning Tools
Calendars	Enables you to create a regular, periodic, relative, and Control-M Rule-Based Calendar.
Folders	Enables you to view all folders defined in all environments, upload Control-M/EM data to Control-M/Server, download Control-M/Server data to Control-M/EM, and order and delete folders.
Periodic Statistics	Enables you to collect separate statistics on a specific job or set of jobs, based on a calendar period, or a dynamic period that is effective only while the dynamic condition is active.
Service definition	Enables you to create service definitions and service rules that are used to model the Production for your end users.
Templates	Enables you create templates for job and folder definitions.
Promotion rules	Enables you to define environments and promotion rules to move folders between environments.
Workspaces	Enables you to take ownership, rename, and delete a workspace.
Production Control Tools
Conditions	Enables you to view all active Conditions that are available to Active Jobs, and create conditions manually.
Control Resources	Enables you to view shared or exclusive resources that are available to active jobs and prevent jobs with Control Resources from running.
Global Conditions Prefixes	Enables you to define global prefixes that are used for prerequisite conditions to establish job dependencies across different Control-M/Servers by defining condition name prefixes that indicate that a condition is global.
Quantitative Resources	Enables you to create active quantitative resources that are available to active jobs.
Workload Policy Definitions	Enables you to control, manage, and balance the workload on Control-M resources and hosts.
Control-M Event Manager	(z/Os only) Enables Control-M to perform specified actions in response to external events outside the direct control of Control-M.
Monitoring Tools
Alerts Monitor	Enables you to monitor your production.
Service Monitor	Enables you analyze services, and locate and resolve problematic jobs.
Viewpoints	Enables you to define Viewpoints. You can then view and monitor jobs on a particular Control-M/Server, jobs belonging to a specific user, and jobs having a particular status, such as failed jobs.
Workload Policy Monitor	Enables you to see the current status of associated jobs with a Workload Policy.
Communication Tools
Communication	Enables you to monitor the communication status between Control-M/EM and Control-M/Server, troubleshoot connectivity problems, and change the Control-M password, as described in the following topics: Control-M Servers Communication status Troubleshooting connectivity (also see Connectivity problems) Changing the password
Batch Impact Manager/Forecast Tools
Forecast/BIM rules	Enables you to manually revise the expected run time for a job by creating exceptions.
User Daily Definition	Enables you to add a specific user daily defined in folder, and specify the Order time.
Other Tools
Control-M Configuration Manager	Enables you to administer, manage, monitor, configure, and maintain all Control-M components, as well as defining security settings and user authorizations.
Reports (Control-M Reporting Facility)	Enables you to define templates that you can use to generate reports that provide important information about your Control‑M job flow.