Control-M Web Capabilities

Control-M Web Capabilities

The following capabilities are available in Control-M Web version 9.0.22 (new capabilities are marked in blue):

  • Planning Domain
    • Workspace: An area in the Planning domain where you can create a workflows that contains all your folders, sub-folders, and jobs.
      • View, import, search for, and manage all Workspaces that are not checked in, and define a set of filters as the default view of the new Workspaces sub-tab in the Home tab.
      • Create, save, and load Workspaces.
      • Export Workspaces to *.xml files (XML versions 9.0.20, 9.0.21 and 9.0.22).
      • Create workflows for all Control-M-supported job types.
      • Mass Create: Simultaneously create multiple jobs, based on a user-defined template.
      • Copy, cut, and delete jobs and folders from the Workspace.
      • Change a folder type or job type from the Folder Type or Job Type drop-down list in the General tab of the job definitions panel.
      • Edit job properties, including scheduling criteria, prerequisites, and actions.
      • Schedule jobs to run in any time zone worldwide, without the need to add additional time zones or configure daylight-savings time.
      • Browse and select required files that are located on a non-local Agent that is connected to your environment and defined in the OS job Host/Host Group job definitions attribute. This enables you to select and run a script on a remote Agent machine.
      • View neighborhood jobs to locate dependent predecessor and successors jobs.
      • Validate, check in, and run Workspaces or selected folders and jobs.
      • WCM: Workload Change Manager.
        • Add notes to folders and jobs.
        • Submit Workspaces for a Control-M Scheduler to review.
      • Reference SMART folders.
      • Import and export Workspaces to *.json files that contain the following types of validation warnings, which do not prevent successful check-in when the New Folder Default Strictness Level attribute is set to Non-Strict:
        • Undefined Agent validation warnings.
        • Site Standard validation warnings.
      • Include date patterns and standard, regular expression syntax for the Source and Destination fields in a File Transfer job.
      • Simultaneously check-in and run a Workspace when you click Run, and then monitor and troubleshoot all check-in steps.
    • Find and Update
      • Perform simple job searches, based on multiple criteria.
      • Mass Update: Mass-update selected job properties for multiple jobs.
    • Verify the JCL code in a z/OS job definition before it runs.
  • Monitoring Domain
    • Viewpoints: A filtered view of folders and jobs in your environment that enables you to monitor the real-time execution status of your workflows across multiple Control-M/Servers and Agents.
      • Create simple or sophisticated private or public Viewpoints based on the hierarchies, collection filters, and filters that you define.
      • Edit and save Viewpoints.
      • Supports all active job operations for active jobs, including hold, release, return, restart, confirm, set to OK, skip, bypass, delete, kill, run now (force), and edit.
      • Verify JCL code in an active z/OS job before it executes.
      • View neighborhood jobs to locate dependent job predecessors and successors.
      • Edit job properties.
      • Edit scripts in OS jobs and JCLs in z/OS jobs.
      • View job details, such as the job summary, job settings, the full job log, job output, Control-M Statistics, scripts, and documentation.
      • Job Waiting Information: Enables you to investigate jobs in a Waiting state, track predecessors, and manually apply unmet events (conditions) that enable jobs to execute.
      • Perform simple or advanced job searches, based on their attributes and status.
      • Navigate Viewpoints in a newly designed Tile View.
    • Archive Search: Search archived jobs, based on advanced search criteria.
    • Run selected jobs and folders from the Monitoring domain.
    • Services
      • View defined services in a dedicated Services tab.
      • Complete service details, including errors, logs, parameters, and related tickets.
      • Zoom into the service workflow to investigate and troubleshoot jobs that do not run or complete on time.
    • Alerts Management
      • View and manage alerts in a dedicated Alerts page.
      • Configure alert filters.
      • Mark alerts as new, reviewed, paused, or closed.
      • Edit alert urgency and comment on existing alerts.
      • Monitor and troubleshoot the required job directly from the alerts page.
      • Receive alert notifications throughout Control-M and click the notification to be redirected to the alert in the Alerts domain.
    • Airflow: An additional analysis level for Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) jobs where each DAG is represented in Control-M ad-hoc.
  • Tools Domain
    • Calendars: Create timetables that enable you to apply scheduling limitations to one or more job and SMART folder definitions.
      • Create regular, periodic, and rule-based calendars (RBCs).
      • Edit and delete calendars.
      • Publish calendars that are accessible to all authorized users.
      • Search for calendars.
    • Events: Create and manage dependencies between jobs or SMART folders.
      • View, search, and filter events.
      • Add and delete events.
    • Folders: View and manage all saved folders in your Control-M environment.
      • View, search, and filter saved folders.
      • Troubleshoot unsynchronized folders.
      • Apply Site Standards to one or more folders.
      • Sync or unsync folders.
    • Control-M/Forecast
      • Simulate future job and SLA service run and execution behavior to discover how jobs are expected to perform.
      • Discover why some jobs are not expected to run. 
      • Simulate how future job and SLA service runs and executions will perform under different circumstances, job definitions, or scheduling criteria.
    • Lock Resources: Control the distribution of physical or logical devices, such as files, disk drives, tables, and databases, between jobs.
      • View, search, and filter Lock Resources.
      • Add or delete Lock Resources.
      • Determine whether Lock Resources are exclusive or shared.
      • View Lock Resource utilization by jobs.
      • Directly open jobs that rely on a Lock Resource.
    • Resource Pools: Limit the quantity of a logical resource required to execute one or more jobs, such as a database connection or virtual CPU.
      • View, search, and filter Resource Pools.
      • Add or delete Resource Pools.
      • Determine or modify Resource Pool quantity.
      • Directory monitor Resource Pool utilization by specific jobs.
    • Server Communication Status: Monitor Control-M/Server communications and settings without administrative privileges.
    • Service Definitions: Create service definitions and service rules based on the filter criteria that you define. 
    • SLA Manager/Forecast Rules: Create rules for SLA Management jobs and Control-M Forecast to correct or prevent prediction errors in SLA Jobs and Control-M Forecast.
    • Periodic Statistics Rules: Create Periodic and Dynamic Statistics rules.
    • Shared Variables: Manage shared information between jobs.
      • View, search, and filter variables.
      • Supports Local, Global, Named Pool, and SMART folder variables
    • Site Standards: Standardize and automate business governance processes.
      • View, search, and filter Site Standards.
      • Add, duplicate, and delete Site Standards.
      • Add, edit, duplicate, and delete Site Standard rules, including prerequisites, job attributes, and event format.
      • Add business parameters to a Site Standard.
      • Add internal rules (rule templates) to a Site Standard.
      • Create Site Standard Policies.
    • User Views: Customize Control-M Web feature availability for each user.
      • Create, edit, duplicate, and delete User Views.
      • View granularity by the feature, job type and properties, toolbar and job actions, and Configuration, Tools, and Alerts domains.
  • Job Access With Speech (JAWS) Screen Reader: Listen to screen descriptions for the visually impaired in the Planning, Monitoring, MFT, and Tools domains.
  • User Preferences: Configure user preferences in a newly designed dialog box.
  • Activity Log: You can now view a consolidated Activity Log that logs all activities performed by a user in the current Control-M Web login session.
  • Configuration Domain
    • Control-M/EM Management: Manage Control-M/EM Services, parameters, Gateways, and components that are connected to Control-M/EM.
    • Control-M/Server Management: Rename Control-M/Servers, configure Control-M/Server debug levels and security, and send commands to a Control-M for z/OS,
    • Agents and Plug-ins Dashboard: Monitor your Agents and plug-ins from a central screen.
      • Monitor and troubleshoot unavailable Agents.
      • Monitor and troubleshoot unavailable plug-ins.
      • View aggregated Agent and plug-ins statuses.
    • Agent Management
      • View, search, and filter Agents by name or plug-in type.
      • Add and delete Agents.
      • Ping, recycle, test, and disable Agents.
      • Collect Agent log and Statistics.
      • Configure Agents, Agent tags, and Agent system parameters.
      • Configure UNIX-based Agents to communicate with enhanced, Java-based Agentless Hosts.
      • Debug Agents: Change the debug level and activate a communication trace on required Agents.
    • Run as User Management
    • Plug-in Management
      • View, search, and filter plug-ins.
      • Add and delete Agent plug-ins.
      • Create and copy local connection profiles (LCPs) to another Agent, for supported plug-ins.
      • Configure plug-ins.
      • Define a plug-in configuration profiles.
    • Centralized Connection Profiles
      • View, search, and filter centralized connection profiles.
      • Add, duplicate, and delete centralized connection profiles.
      • Test any local and centralized connection profile connection.
      • Configure centralized connection profiles.
    • Roles: Define access levels to MFT Enterprise sites.
    • User Management
      • Add and remove users and configure their role.
      • Configure out-of-the-box external IdP support via SAML 2.0.
      • Create and configure host groups with role-based administration support.
    • API Token Management
      • Create API tokens to enable user authentication when you API commands are run.
      • Define when API tokens expire.
  • Reports
    • (Supported reports only) Save reports in *.pdf, *.xlsx, and *.csv format.
    • Configure multiple criteria filters and column choosers.
    • Create any of the following reports:
      • Alerts
      • Active jobs.
      • Audit
      • Extreme peak usage.
      • Active Resource Pools.
      • Active Lock Resources.
      • Active prerequisite events.
      • Managed Control-M/Servers.
      • Host group Information.
      • Trend analysis.
      • User authorizations.
      • Job definitions.
      • Wait for Events in job definitions.
      • Events in job definitions.
      • Variables in job definitions.
      • Before and after notifications in job definitions.
      • Lock Resources in job definitions.
      • Resource Pools in job definitions.
      • Folder definitions.
      • WCM Audit.
      • Job executions.
      • Workloads
      • SLA
      • MFT
      • MFT Enterprise (B2B).
    • Create additional reports for folders and jobs with the following types of If-Actions:
      • Notify by Mail Actions: View all folders and jobs that are defined with a Notify by Mail action.
      • Add/Delete Events Actions: View all folders and jobs that are defined with an Add/Delete Events action.
      • Change Status or Run Settings Actions: View all folders and jobs that are defined with one of the following actions:
        • Set to OK.
        • Set to Not OK.
        • Rerun Job.
        • Stop Cyclic Run.
      • Run Job Actions: View all folders and jobs that are defined with a Run Job action.
      • Set Variable Actions: View all folders and jobs that are defined with a Set Variable action.
      • Handle Output Actions: View all jobs that are defined with a Handle Output action.
  • Workflow Insights
    • Monitor workflow health.
    • Monitor historical peak usage.
    • Monitor workflows and job distributions throughout the system.
    • Monitor alert metrics for jobs, Applications, and hosts.
    • Monitor job and folder updates.
    • Monitor SLA Management services health.
    • Monitor job and workflow efficiency. 
    • Monitor job execution metrics.
    • Monitor actions performed manually by users.

 

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