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Whats new withBMC CONTROL-M v6.3 ?

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Agenda

General New Icons, Colors and restructured Menus

Modeless Screens

Dock-able Windows Security

Desktop Specific Login screen for an Online mode

Dynamic JEF One click Job Load

Conditional Inheritance

Job Templates

New Calendar/Scheduling Table Manager

EM GUI Specific List View Display

Multiple jobs selection in Order/Force menu

New Workload Distribution Reports


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Modeless Screens

Several JEF screens can be opened simultaneously allowing tocompare jobs and copy/paste information between them

Valid both for GUI and Desktop, with no limitation


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Dock-able Windows


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Security Enhancements

CTM/Server security graphical management interface (ctmsec)

Authorization Facility enhancements:

Owner field restrictions Jobs filter on the group level

Active Directory Support


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Login to BMC CONTROL-M/Desktop

Login to BMC CONTROL-M/Desktopby default

Offline mode is still allowed

The Workspace concept:

Local Workspace: Working locally by loading jobs from the BMC CONTROL-M/Enterprise Manager DB. Exclusive access will be granted over the jobs.

Definitions can be saved in a draft file, which can be later be reopen

Online Workspace: Working on the BMC CONTROL-M/Enterprise Manager DB

the user is granted access over the relevant jobs. Save will occur directly in the DB


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The new JEF Concept

Direct operations: Using new tool bar at the top of the JEF One-click job upload

Save, Close, Save & Close

Save/Apply Template

Mandatory Fields: Red asterisk indicates all mandatory fields

Separate Fixed section: BMC CONTROL-M Name and Job Type Optional use of Template: Replaced the Skeleton concept


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New (Dynamic) JEF General

Job type: replaces the following parameters:Application Node Group, Form Name, CM

version, Application type, Application Version

A combo box is now allowedfor the following fields: Table,

Application, Group


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New (Dynamic) JEF Scheduling

Combo box for Calendar names


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New (Dynamic) JEF Scheduling

Active/ Not Active

Advanced Scheduling Rules


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Advanced Scheduling Rules


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New (Dynamic) JEF Execution


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New (Dynamic) JEF Conditions


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New (Dynamic) JEF Save changes?


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One Click Job Load


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Prerequisite Conditions Inheritance

Before v6.3

After v6.3


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Automatic Prerequisite Condition Deletion

Problem: when rerunning group of jobs, they may run out of order

Possible solutions: Operator manually deletes the relevant conditions

Manually defining an Out-condition with a minus sign


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Prerequisite Conditions Enhancements

BMC CONTROL-M/Desktop user can configure the following new options: Automatic deletion: If an In condition is no longer needed after the successor

job runs, the successor job can delete that condition by define it as an Out

condition to be deleted (with - sign). This option automatically add this Outcondition for every dependency

Conditional inheritance:Linked jobs will automatically

inherit jobs conditions if deleted


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Job Templates

Provide common values to job scheduling definitions Saves time

Enforces standardization

Looks exactly like a job scheduling definition

Supports ALL job attributes (including steps, post processing, etc.)

Any number of templates can be definedA template can be applied at any point

Built-in BMC Batch Impact Manager template

Dynamic Functions


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Template Manager and TEF


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Apply Template and Save as Template


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Mass Create


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Job Templates Add Functions

Resolved at job definition time

Functions are allowed for ALL values except:

Quantitative/Control Resource AutoEdit Variable

Steps

Post Processing


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Functions Examples

Counter: Literal value, with appended counter (to make the value unique)

Counter & Field Name: Field value, with a counter attached

Substr: Substring of a certain value {+} / {-}: Add or Subtract a value to a numeric function


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New Calendar/Scheduling Table Manager


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List View Display

List View in BMC CONTROL-M/Enterprise Manager GUI


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Multiple Jobs selection in Order/Force menu


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Workload Reports

Workload Distribution Report How many jobs are ordered/executed on each of my BMC CONTROL-M

Servers every day? How many AFT jobs are executed on Saturdays?

Is there an effective load balancing among my agents?

Extreme Peaks Usage Report What was the lowest daily amount of jobs executed in my environment?

What was the maximal amount of executions? On what dates?

What is the maximal number of SAP jobs executed on my server on April?

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Workload Distribution Report

Orders per j obs categories

for every CTM server

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Questions?

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