Control-M

WHAT IS CONTROL-M (CTL-M)?

•Control-M is a component member of the INCONTROL family of products by BMC Software

•CTL-M is the automated production control and scheduling system

•CTL-M manages and automates the setup, scheduling and execution of jobs in the OS/390
(MVS) environment

COMPONENTS OF CONTROL-M

•Job Scheduling Definitions

•Active Jobs File (AJF)

•CONTROL-M Monitor
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CTL-M PRIMARY OPTIONS MENU

• Opt. 2 - Scheduling Definition Facility

• Opt. 3 - Active Environment Screen

• Opt. 4 - Conditions / Resources Map

• Opt. 5 - Log Screen

• Opt. 8 - Calendar Facility

• Opt. C - CMEM Rule Definition Facility

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Control M command list

H - Hold job
D - Delete
F - Free
L - Display a jobs control-m log
Z - ZOOM (and DOC to see rundoc)
O - Force OK complete
S - STATISTICS (RUNTIMES)
R - Restart (always use options Y and ? to be able to select the step before starting)
C - Confirm a job waiting confirmation.? then A to add a req (post)
V - versioning and then S will show joblogs of current day runs.
J - Display and edit the JCL for a job.
A - Add Condition.
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COMPONENT 1 - JOB SCHEDULING DEFINITIONS

• Specifies criteria that identify decisions to be made and actions to be taken regarding the
handling of a particular job

• General Parameters

• Basic Scheduling Parameters

• Runtime Scheduling Parameters

• Post-Processing Parameters
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Job Scheduling Definitions: GENERAL PARAMETERS

• Information about the job (identifies the library and member where the JCL is stored)
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Job Scheduling Definitions: BASIC SCHEDULING PARAMETERS

• Criteria according to which CONTROL-M schedules the job

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Job Scheduling Definitions: RUNTIME SCHEDULING PARAMETERS

• Runtime requirements that must be satisfied before CONTROL-M submits the job

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Job Scheduling Definitions: POST-PROCESSING PARAMETERS

• Actions CONTROL-M performs after the job ends, depending upon the outcome of job
execution (for example, one set of actions if the job ends OK, another set of actions if an
abend occurs or job not running, running too long, etc).

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COMPONENT 2 - ACTIVE JOBS FILE (AJF)

• If a job is scheduled for a particular day, a copy of its job scheduling definition is placed in this
file

– How does a job get to the AJF?

• Via daily load job
• Manually forced
• Forced by CMEM (DSNEVENT, JOBARRIVAL, JOBEND)
• Forced by another job

• Only jobs in the AJF are candidates for submission by the CTL-M monitor

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COMPONENT 3 - CONTROL-M MONITOR

• Checks the runtime requirements of each job in the AJF

• Monitors available resources

• Determines that the conditions and resources required by a job are available

• If conditions and resources are available, the monitor allocates the resources and submits the
job

• Monitors the execution of the job

• Implements post-processing decisions based on instructions in the job scheduling definition and
the results of the job execution

• Operates continually as it evaluates the production environment and implements decisions

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A LOOK AT CONTROL-M

•New Day Processing

– 6 am daily

– Clean up of old jobs

• Jobs that have executed successfully
• Jobs that were deleted
• Jobs whose MAXWAIT days have been exceeded
– MAXWAIT – number of extra days the job can wait in the AJF for submission
– Ordering of new jobs
• Order / Original Date (ODAT) changes

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RESTARTING A JOB

R Rerun , O Force ok and the rest of the options.

Enter an R beside the job that has abended and the screen should come up with the
Following.
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RESTARTING A JOB

Please verify that you are restarting the job that has abended. Now you can enter a Y
to confirm that you want to restart the job.
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FORCE COMPLETING A JOB

You’ll have to reply Y and then hit enter to confirm that you want to force complete
 PROCESS DIAGRAMS

Start
Normal Run
Job Execution Abend Job Documentation /
JCL

Job Documentation / Action taken on the job as

Action taken is not per the documentation – Tkt for
adequate to resolve Restart/ Resubmit/ Force documentation
the problem complete/ Cancel

Successful Completion
End
Application Problem
Yes
Tkt for documentation

Issue Resolved No
Call the programmer By Programmer

Follow up again with the

programmer till the
Follow the
problem is resolved /
programmer
Turned over to Counter
instructions
part at US for Morning
problem fixation
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Please feel free to add more Information.

Himanshu Kakar