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BMC Control-M 9: Powering Innovation

What’s New in Control-M 9

BMC Software Marcelo Ruiz

Control-M 9

Unmatched application workflow automation

Lowering TCO

Increasing application deployment speed

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workload Automation

Control-M 9 Benefits

• Reduced TCO • Automated client and agent deployment

reduces update and maintenance times from up to a month down to a couple days or less

• Global calendar capability that reduces admin time by 50% or more

• More Business Value • Reducing the risk and costs of business

interruption with 24X7 high availability capability

Control-M 9 Benefits

• Improved AppDev support • Accelerating application change and

deployment cycle times from automated promotion across environments (test to production) in Workload Change Manager improves time-to-value up to 80% by eliminating human errors and manual work

• Improved Analytics • A single enterprise view, predictive run

time performance estimation capability at-a-glance for all jobs

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For Administrator

Control-M 9

Automatic Agents Deployment • Simplify Control-M

Agent upgrades • Manage

upgrades from CCM

• Available for: • GA, Fix Packs

and Patches • v6.4 and above

to v9

• Rollback

Automatic Agents Deployment

Automatic Agents Deployment

Automatic Client Deployment

• Simplify EM Client updates

• Distribute GA, Fix Pack and Patch installations

• Centrally Manage:

• SSL configuration

• Deadline

• Replaces Web Launch

High Availability

• Business continuity • Automatic or Manual failover

• Unified Control-M solution

• Simplicity • Installation wizard

• Actions and monitoring via CCM

• Cost savings on 3rd party solutions

High Availability

High Availability

Manual Failover

PostgreSQL Replication

Control-M Server

Control-M Server

Database

Control-M Server

Control-M Server

Database

High Availability

Customer provided solution for database layer high availability

Automatic or Manual Failover

Control-M Server

Control-M Server

Database

Enterprise Manager Database

Enterprise Manager

Control-M Server

Control-M Server

Database

Enterprise Manager Database

Enterprise Manager

Automatic or Manual Failover

High Availability

Control-M Server and PostgreSQL database replicated to a secondary host

Pause Control-M (quiesce) • Set pause mode from

CCM or via CLI

• Bypass specific jobs using “Run Now”

Usage Alerts

• Gain visibility to workload capacity

• Email notifications for different thresholds

• Mainframe & Distributed

• Aggregation from different Enterprise Manager environments

Additional Enhancements • Support for IPv6 • Support for NFS • New check_req

• Verify individual packages • Detailed & user-friendly report

• SSL Management • Support for external

Certificate Authority (CA)

• Operations on multiple Agents • Support for additional industry

encryption standards: • AES suite ciphers

(128 bit & 256 bit) • SHA-2 set functions hashing

(EM Client-Server) • RSA keys with length

2048, 3072 and 4096

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For Schedulers

Control-M 9

Global Calendars

• Save time and reduce the efforts invested in calendar management

• Single calendar distributed to all Control-M Servers

Share Data Between Jobs

• Capture data from job output

• Share values between jobs • Within the same folder

• Using named pools

Remote Order Job

• Triggers job ordering on remote Control-M servers

• Supports any combination of platforms

• Distributed and z/OS

• Passes variables

Multi-days job flows monitoring

• Manages the smart folder and its jobs as a single entity

• In case of a failure, keeps the folder and all jobs in the active environment

Clear designation in the application titles to which environment users are connected to

Load Folders and Jobs: Enhanced Filtering

Additional Enhancements

• Bookmarks

• Export to Visio (EMF)

• Control-M Event Management Rules in WLA client

• CLI for EMAPI (emapi_cli)

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For Business Users

Control-M 9

Promotion Between Environments

• Fast and error-free deployment

• Eliminate manual work

• Control over the process

Runtime Estimations

• Instant visibility to job runtimes

• Including jobs that are not part of batch business services

Gantt View (V9 Fix Pack 1)

• View job flows on a timeline • From all domains

• Easy monitoring and troubleshooting

• See what Jobs run in parallel

• See gaps between Jobs

• View timeline through the end of the day

• Estimated runtime visualization on the Gantt with Batch Impact Manager

“What-If” Host Simulation

• Proactively handles maintenance windows

• Reduces impact of urgent downtimes

Customers Testimonials

Agents Deployment High Availability

Batch Impact Manager Runtime Estimations

Leading Workload Automation Solution in the market

• History of innovation and investment

• On-going customers engagement

• Record breaking CXI

Why Control-M 9?

• Unmatched application workflow automation

• Lowering TCO

• Increasing application deployment speed

Key Elements

• Automated agent and client deployment

• Runtime analytics

• High Availability

• Automated application workflow

promotion between environments

Release Highlights

Control-M 9

Executive Summary

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Bring IT to Life.™

Thank You

BMC Control-M 9: Powering Innovation