What's new in this version

A new type of If action, Action:CaptureOutput, now enables you to search job output and capture text from the job output into a variable.

Code-Reference > Job-Properties

If Actions > Action:CaptureOutput

When specifying a Site Standard to enforce on a folder or simple folder, you can now specify values for its Business Fields through the JSON code.

Code-Reference > Folder

Folder and Simple Folder

The Rerun property now supports cyclic folders, in addition to cyclic jobs. The RerunLimit property now also supports folders, in addition to jobs.

Code-Reference > Job-Properties

Rerun and RerunLimit

The Confirm property now supports folders, in addition to jobs and subfolders.

Code-Reference > Job-Properties

Confirm

When specifying a time period under the When property, you can now use the ActivePeriod parameter to choose between specifying a period of activity (when the job can run) or specifying a period of inactivity (when the job cannot run).

Code-Reference > Job-Properties

Specifying a period when a job can or cannot run

When specifying a time period under the When property, you can now specify a predefined Confirmation calendar to use for validation of scheduling dates and you can indicate how to handle jobs that are scheduled for a non-working day in this calendar.

Code-Reference > Job-Properties

Specifying a Confirmation calendar

SAP BW job for running and monitoring a Process Chain in SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW).

Code-Reference > Job-types

Job:SAP:BW:ProcessChain

Informatica job for automation of Informatica workflows and an Informatica connection profile.

Code-Reference > Job-types

Code-Reference > Connection-Profiles

Job:Informatica

ConnectionProfile:Informatica

File Transfer connection profiles were enhanced with several new optional parameters:

• WorkloadAutomationGroups — enables you to specify roles (groups of users) that are allowed to access the connection profile.
• VerifyDestination — Verifies the size of the file at the destination after a successful binary-mode transfer.
  
• VerifyBytes — Verifies that the number of bytes sent to the destination during a successful binary-mode transfer is the same as the source file.

Code-Reference > Connection-Profiles

ConnectionProfile:FileTransfer

The new run job::waitingInfo command enables you to display the reasons why a waiting job has not yet been executed (for example: missing conditions, resources, hosts, users, or workloads).

Services > Run-service

run job::waitingInfo

The run order command now supports ordering of z/OS type jobs.

Services > Run service

run order

The new deploy ai:jobtype and deploy ai:jobtypes::get commands enable you to deploy Application Integrator job types to the Control-M/Agent and to get details of such job types.

Services > Deploy-service

deploy ai:jobtypes::deploy

deploy ai:jobtypes::get

The deploy service, which enables you to transfer job and configuration definitions to Control-M, now supports the use of a job definitions XML file. This is in addition to the folder definitions XML file, which was already supported.

For the retrieval of existing definitions, the deploy jobs::get command now enables you to choose the job definitions XML format for the output, in addition to the folder definitions XML format and the JSON format (the default).

Services > Deploy-service

Responses to API commands of the run service no longer display session tokens in URLs.

To display session tokens in URLs in responses to API commands (as in previous versions of the product), you can use a new setting in the automation_api_config file, as described in the Control-M Administrator Guide.

Services > Run service

Values of useextended, a Boolean parameter of the ConnectionProfile:SAP element, were changed from yes/no to true/false.

Code-Reference > Connection-Profiles

ConnectionProfile:SAP