Control-M SaaS
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My work experience with control-m
What do you like best about the product?
Control-m was introduced across our enterprise to eliminate manual execution of our batch job environment and create a central point of control.Products are internally schedules are now visible.ad-hoc executions mentioned managed and managed effectively, through one central point of control, providing a complete overview of all activities.Control M is being used by our systems and operations departments. We run jobs of all sorts from many install systems and it addresses all kinds of problems for us
What do you dislike about the product?
Upgrade process is very difficult and time-consuming I think it needs improvement.I would like to see some improvements in handling conditions from previous days
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For running jobs on multiple databases and handling multiple systems
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nothing
Jobs scheduling is easier
What do you like best about the product?
It has enabled us in easy scheduling of production UNIX jobs easily as per unique and easy design of Control M. It helps us to get and classify jobs folder wise and output in a separate section. Also you can have data date-wise and also based on active and inactive job-wise. I loved the way of exporting and importing and loading of jobs inside the tool for scheduling purpose. After all Control M solved a lot in a single piece of software which makes very great the environment and work.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't think if there is anything which I really don't like. The product is very great and there is nothing to say about down points.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Job scheduling is the only purpose for which I use it.
Good monitoring tool which helps us to identify failed jobs, priority failed jobs
What do you like best about the product?
On the alert screen itself we can see which ever alerts have been failed, also the priority failed jobs which need immediate action. It also provides the status of the jobs if they have completed fine or failed.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it runs slow and also freezes therefore we have to log out everytime and log back in. There have been instances where in it doesnt link to the ticketing tool. The alerts are generated but no tickets generated for them. So this then becomes a tedious task later
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Handling various activities for the jobs. Activities like force completing them, reruning, holding, deleting etc. we can even we the log as to what activities have been performed on a particular job.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good tool for monitoring pupose
So far is only good
What do you like best about the product?
Is a powerful tool for sure with a lot of connection options and custom jobs.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI for me looks like is overloaded and not pretty easy to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scheduling multiple workloads across systems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a good tool that include a wide range of functions. Make sure to ask for a test.
A great job schedular
What do you like best about the product?
Initially, i did not like the idea when we were proposed to buy Control-M to handle job scheduling for the project. Now that we are using Control-M to manage huge chain of jobs scheduled with dependencies on each other, we can't think of working without Control-M. You can order jobs on one or a group of servers. You can make use of multiple calendars to control what specific days job or set of jobs do not run. You can monitor job output and status with Control-M.
What do you dislike about the product?
BMC should come up with mobile app as well, so we can monitor jobs from mobile device. There is not much you can track from auditing perspective from the GUI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Control-M to schedule and run very large job cycles each containing up to 100 jobs per cycle. This is very helpful given that there are multiple level job dependencies between the jobs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need to schedule jobs on windows/linux with dependencies between the job, Control-M is a great tool.
Control-M
What do you like best about the product?
Visual representation of jobs was good, could see a large number of processes at once displayed neatly
and interdependency between jobs
and interdependency between jobs
What do you dislike about the product?
Interface looked outdated, can be cleaned up made more modern looking
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As an automation tool for scheduling, deleting processes
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Not visually appealing, could use some work to make interface modern
Oldie but goodie
What do you like best about the product?
The different platforms I have been able to use it on
What do you dislike about the product?
The amount of restrictions ir has. Because mainframe is an older system, there are many upgrades or features we cannot use. The fi
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scheduling all of our thousands of jobs and holiday schedules
Control M scheduler
What do you like best about the product?
I have used Control M scheduler for Mainframe to take decisions about the priority of the jobs as it shows the predessor and successor of a job .
What do you dislike about the product?
We had to replace CA7 schedular and switch to Contol M schedular on Mainframe and it did help in job scheduling using jcl /cobol for migration project. Did not find anything that I would not like about it as both are good job schedulers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps to monitor all the jobs running in the batch mode on mainframe .
There are a lot of parts to this!
What do you like best about the product?
I don't use control-M everyday. We have a team that works with it everyday. I use this if a job fails. It is really easy to re-run a job when it fails. It is user friendly for someone that does not use it everyday. There is a test environment and there is a production environment. That is really helpful as well! We use the test system a lot.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that if you don't log in for 30 days or something like that your password gets locked and you have to call and reset your password. At least with our teams it is a really big pain to get your password reset. We don't have to log in that much so we have to reset our password a lot. That is my biggest complaint about the software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can easily and quickly re-run our jobs. That is a huge benefit as far as our settlement files. If our job fails and we get a ticket we can rerun the job in a little less than a minute.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try to get on it at least once a week. That will make sure you don't get locked out.
Helped us with rdbms data warehouse automation and reporting
What do you like best about the product?
It took some time to learn but once I learned it I found it pretty useful for our team’s reporting needs. You can certainly get more mileage out of it when you’re strong in shell scripting, so we were able to take better advantage because of that.
What do you dislike about the product?
The process for moving workflows to higher level environments felt more difficult than it should have been, and so often email error alerts we set up would get sent out to our boss when we’d make changes subsequently. Also when emailing out the results of hive jobs (using beeline) analysts complained that they wanted Excel format or a way to eliminate the superfluous output from beeline’s csv ouput format which occurs above the header.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used it for automating our data warehouse, and also for automating internal reporting.
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