High Availability
Control-M high availability solution enables you to
maximize your production environment uptime and prevent data loss in the event
of hardware maintenance or failure.
In the case of hardware failure or if all Control-M
processes are down unexpectedly, you can now perform either an automatic or
manual failover for both Control-M/EM and Control-M/Server. After the problem
is fixed, you can fallback to the primary host. This functionally applies to
customers using an Oracle or MSSQL database for Control-M.
In the event of a hardware failure, when using
Control-M/Server with PostgreSQL database, you can perform a manual failover to
a secondary Control-M/Server, and later, when the problem is fixed, you can
fallback to the primary Control-M/Server. In addition, this solution provides
PostgreSQL database replication for Control-M/Server.
Automated Agent
Deployment
Upgrade one or many agents to V9 and future versions
including fix packs in just a few simple steps. You can choose between
transferring the package to agents for later deployment, or automatically
transferring and deploying in a single step.
Automated Client
Deployment
The new Client Deployment utility replaces the
WebLaunch tool in previous Control-M versions. Use the Client Deployment
utility to easily distribute full client installation packages, fix packs and
patches to users. You can set policies to force users to apply update packages
by a specific date.
Promotion between
environments
Promotion between environments is a new capability of
the Control-M Workload Change Manager that enables you to move job definitions
between environments. For example, from a development environment to a
production environment. During the promotion process, job definitions are
modified and validated according the Site Standards of the target environment.
Control-M
configuration Manager (CCM) enhancements
The Control-M configuration Manager user interface has
been updated to improve user experience. In addition, the following Control-M
components are now managed via the tool: Control-M Database, Naming Server
(NS), Configuration Management Server (CMS) as well as Control-M Workload
Archiving.
Usage alerts
Keep an eye on your task usage with Usage Alerts,
available from within the CCM. Define task usage alert thresholds across all of
your EMs. Exceeding a threshold will send an email alert.
Security
enhancements
Introducing the SSL certificate deployment capability
that extends the packaging and deployment of SSL security certificates with the
option to specify an external Certificate Authority.
Improved security algorithm.
SSL support for:
• AES suite ciphers (128 bit and 256 bit)
• SHA-2 hashing (on Enterprise Manager Client-Server
communication)
• RSA keys with length 2048, 3072 and 4096
• Control-M Enterprise Manager password hashed using
SHA-512
NFS support for Control-M/Server and Control-M Agent
installation
You can now install Control-M/Server and
Control-M/Agents on NFS.
IPv6 communication
IPv6 support, including support for mixed IPv4 and
IPv6 environments, is now available for the following components:
• Control-M/Agent
• Control-M/Server
• Control-M Mainframe
• Control-M/Enterprise Management – Server, Clients
Note: Control-M Agentless is not supported at this
configuration.
Sharing
information between jobs
Ability to share information between jobs by
extracting data from a job output and passing it to other jobs as a variable.
Additional granularity of the variables is introduced as well, allowing to
define variables in groups called “named pools” or as Smart folder variables
that are unique per folder execution, in addition to global and local
variables.
Runtime
estimations
With Control-M Batch Impact Manager you can now see
estimated runtimes of all the jobs in a regular viewpoint without them being
defined as a part of a Batch Impact Manager service.
Multi-days job
flows monitoring
Improved monitoring and troubleshooting for the job
flows that span on multiple days. You can now configure the active environment
retention period for a SMART folder so the SMART folder itself and its jobs are
kept in the active environment until the end of the period.
Dynamic job
ordering on a remote Control-M Server
Ability to order jobs on remote Control-M Servers by
setting an action in a job to trigger another job on a different Control-M
Server and also pass variables as a part of this order operation.
Control-M Event
Management Rules in Workload Automation client
z/OS customers can now view, edit, and manage CMEM
rules via the Control-M Workload Automation client.
What If Host
simulation
New capability for Control-M Batch Impact Manager and
Forecast to simulate the influence of the unavailability of a specific
Control-M Agent or a group of Control-M Agents on your job flows, and prepare
for planned shutdowns and maintenance windows.
Global calendars
You can now save time and reduce the efforts invested
in calendar management by creating a single calendar in the
Control-M/Enterprise Manager that will be distributed to all the
Control-M/Servers.
Bookmarks
You can bookmark the jobs in a workspace or a
viewpoint to analyze flows and easily locate your jobs. Bookmarks are supported
in the Planning, Monitoring, Forecast, and History domains.
Export flow
diagram to a file
Till now one of the biggest challenge is to export the graphical view. Its not anymore, now You can now export your flow diagram to a Microsoft
Visio-compatible EMF format from any domain. Just click the “Save as” function
in the application “File” menu. its that simple.
Enhanced search
when loading jobs to a workspace
Now you can view more fine-tuned results when loading
jobs into a workspace in the Planning domain by filtering folders and jobs with
a larger variety of fields.
x