Control-M for Micro Focus

Micro Focus Windows enables you to run Job Control Language (JCL) files on mainframe environments on Windows.

Control-M for Micro Focus Windows enables you to do the following:

• Connect to any Micro Focus endpoint from a single computer with secure login, which eliminates the need to provide authentication.
• Integrate Micro Focus jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
• Execute JCL job streams in Micro Focus JES via the Micro Focus Batch Scheduler Integration JCL (MFBSIJCL) utility, add the SYSOUT to output, and re-execute JCL job streams from (and to) specific steps that you define.
• Monitor the status, results, and output of Micro Focus jobs in the Monitoring domain.
• Attach an SLA job to your Micro Focus jobs.
• Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Micro Focus including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.
• Run 50 Micro Focus jobs simultaneously per Agent.

Setting up Control-M for Micro Focus

This procedure describes how to install the Micro Focus plug-in, create a connection profile, and define a Micro Focus job in Helix Control-M and Automation API.

Before you Begin

• Verify that Automation API is installed, as described in Setting up the API.
• Verify that Agent version 9.0.21.080 or later is installed.

Begin

1. On the Agent host, set the Java environment variable by running one of the following commands through a command line:
   
   • Linux:
     • Bourne shell/bash: export BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME=<java_11_directory>
     • csh/tcsh: setenv BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME <java_11_directory>
   • Windows:  set BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME="<java_11_directory>"
2. Run one of the following API commands:
   • For a fresh installation, use the provision image command:
     • Linux:  ctm provision image MFL_plugin.Linux
     • Windows: ctm provision image MFW_plugin.Windows
   • For an upgrade, use the following command:
     ctm provision agent::update
3. Create a Micro Focus connection profile in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
   • Helix Control-M: Creating a Centralized Connection Profile with Micro Focus Connection Profile Parameters
   • Automation API:  ConnectionProfile:Micro Focus
4. Define a Micro Focus job in Helix Control- or Automation API, as follows:
   • Helix Control-M: Creating a Job with Micro Focus Job parameters
   • Automation API: Job:Micro Focus