Control-M SaaS
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Control M easier and faster scheduler
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to follow through when monitoring big flows. Job definitions and IO rules make things easy to track and trace flows and tables.Control M scheduling in my opinion is easier than ESP scheduling. It's easy to know if the job is delayed and in waiting state also easy to figure out and manage the resources and conditions in Control M.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not see many downsides. In fact it's easier than ESP.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracing stuck flows, debugging, waiting resources etc. File receiving and going and starting the flows.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I liked Control M as it was easy when used while scheduling jobs and tables.
Control-M for Mainframe
What do you like best about the product?
Control-M is a workload automation solution that provides unmatched application
workflow automation, lowering operating costs and increasing application
deployment speed. It delivers enhanced business value with high availability, enhanced
analytics, and faster application deployment through automated job promotion from
development to test to production for optimal bi-modal IT innovation.
It Offers-
Run Time Analytics: Control-M features advanced out-of-the box insight into all jobs across your enterprise significantly
improving run time estimation with Batch Impact Manager
analytics. And jobs no longer have to be defined as a part of
a Batch Impact Manager service
Automated Application Workflow Promotion: Using
Workload Change Manager, you can now automate application
workflow promotion between test and production
environments to accelerate application change and
deployment cycle times.
Usage alerts: Keep an eye on your task usage with Usage
Alerts. You can define task usage alert thresholds across all
of your Control-M environments and automatically receive an
email alert when thresholds are reached.
workflow automation, lowering operating costs and increasing application
deployment speed. It delivers enhanced business value with high availability, enhanced
analytics, and faster application deployment through automated job promotion from
development to test to production for optimal bi-modal IT innovation.
It Offers-
Run Time Analytics: Control-M features advanced out-of-the box insight into all jobs across your enterprise significantly
improving run time estimation with Batch Impact Manager
analytics. And jobs no longer have to be defined as a part of
a Batch Impact Manager service
Automated Application Workflow Promotion: Using
Workload Change Manager, you can now automate application
workflow promotion between test and production
environments to accelerate application change and
deployment cycle times.
Usage alerts: Keep an eye on your task usage with Usage
Alerts. You can define task usage alert thresholds across all
of your Control-M environments and automatically receive an
email alert when thresholds are reached.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cyclic jobs. Dependencies have issues if cyclic jobs fail and we rerun. Failed cyclic jobs do not show up in red color.
Old jobs which did not run. Control-M should change the color of yesterday's ordered jobs vs. today's jobs.
Old jobs which did not run. Control-M should change the color of yesterday's ordered jobs vs. today's jobs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scheduling the daily/monthly/weekly batch jobs using Control M.
Best in Market for scheduling
What do you like best about the product?
Forecast feature - it helps in seeing how a future day schedule will look like.
GUI - it is very user friendly and also easy to understand.
GUI - it is very user friendly and also easy to understand.
What do you dislike about the product?
there is actually nothing i dislike in Control-M. I believe it is one of the top schedulers available out there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data warehousing applications, coordination between different environments (eg. Mainframe to Unix), contant source file checking/monitoring.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Control-M is versatile and it has several advantages and helps implement your tasks very easily.
Control-M - Simplified automated workflows
What do you like best about the product?
It helps to deliver better apps faster by embedding itself in the CI/CD workflow. It comes with out of the box support of cloud technologies
What do you dislike about the product?
Multiple Environment support is not at it's best.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps to finds the bugs at an earlier stage of software development lifecycle which helps to promote quality code and better application. Lots of human hours are saved with high precision workflows.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have daily workflows which are carried out manually then use Control-M as it takes all your manual work and designs an automated workflow thus increasing productivity.
Add Sophistication for scheduling jobs
What do you like best about the product?
The tool is very helpful for scheduling and running jobs, the interface is very user friendly and lightweight tool
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes dual instances may create, so difficult to understand the original one. In that scenario, the trial & error method may work, but the solution to this problem would be helpful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scheduling jobs are very easy with this automated tool and moreover, you can coy schedule design also from one project to another
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is one of best tools I have seen for job scheduling, you can do an easy setup and it is very user friendly.
Good and essential tool for monitoring purpose
What do you like best about the product?
Able to track and perform actions of the alerts easily. All information regarding every alerts is present on the home screen. This tool can be linked to ticketing tool and this tickets can be auto generated for every alert received on this tool
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometime its slow and freezes. At times there are problems for ticket auto generation. Alerts are received but its respective tickets are not created
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can prioritize the alerts according to business needs. And assign multiple alerts at a time. Customisation is possible according to requirement
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Basic and essential tool for monitoring pupose
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
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
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
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