CONTROL-M Whitepaper

1. BMC CONTROL-M
AUTOMATE AND INTEGRATE YOUR BATCH AND
ONLINE PROCESSES ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE.

2. OPTIMIZE
DRIVE
DRIVE YOUR BUSINESS WITH
ENTERPRISE SCHEDULING.
BMC CONTROL-M is a best-of-breed
®
enterprise scheduling solution, allowing you
to automate and integrate batch processes
that support the bottom line across multiple
platforms and applications.

3. SCHEDULING IS THE ENGINE THAT BMC CONTROL-M IS THE BEST
DRIVES YOUR BUSINESS ENTERPRISE SCHEDULING SOLUTION
To meet your business objectives, you need AVAILABLE
to employ a reliable, scalable workload More than 2,000 organizations have installed
automation solution capable of effectively BMC® CONTROL -M, the vast majority of
monitoring, managing, and automating which replaced an existing scheduling tool. By
your batch processing environment. This reducing the overall complexity of enterprise
is particularly important considering that scheduling and increasing productivity through
batch data processing accounts for more greater automation, BMC CONTROL-M
than 50 percent of all critical business data helped these customers:
processing.
> Reduce the costs of IT and business
Here are some of the critical factors that “BMC CONTROL-M gave us a
operations
one-stop shop for running any
should be considered in evaluating your
> Increase the quality of services being scheduled software. We now
enterprise scheduling environment:
delivered have a tool that is centralized,
> With disparate systems being deployed scalable, and efficient. We no
> Reduce time-to-recovery by implementing a
by enterprises worldwide, the need to longer have to pay licensing fees
consistent methodology
have a heterogeneous, cross-platform on two products.”
job scheduling solution has increased > Increase revenue potential by optimizing
Todd Melville
dramatically. customer service
ITS Project Manager
> Almost 70 percent of an enterprise’s > Avoid outages to business-critical systems HBF Health Funds, Inc.
integration requirement is to provide batch From a single point of management,
integration between packages. BMC CONTROL-M provides workload
> Job schedulers are being used in business automation and scheduling control over
process automation to streamline and multiple platforms and applications across
simplify the workload, including straight- the enterprise. This solution maximizes
through processing and batch application automation by providing cross-application and
integration projects. cross-platform scheduling capabilities, such
as job dependencies, workload balancing,
> The concept of Service Oriented
management by exception, and status-based
Architecture will become critical —
job execution. BMC CONTROL-M prevents
especially with enabling batch workloads as
scheduling problems from developing into
a Web service.
business problems.
> The volume and complexity of workload
The solution’s proven success record
automation requirements has skyrocketed,
maximizes data center hardware and software
thanks to an influx of applications,
investments over multiple platforms, merging
architectures, Web-based transactions
new and traditional technologies to effectively
(each one averaging more than 10 batch
manage heterogeneous environments.
processes), and an increase in transactions
that cross multiple applications, platforms, BMC CONTROL-M supports more than 20
and companies. platforms, including Unix, Microsoft Windows,
In short, batch scheduling not only facilitates z/OS, Linux, AS/400, Tandem, Unisys 2200,
applications and transactions, but it’s also an and many others.
integral, complicated, and vital part of every
IT environment.

4. GET UNMATCHED SCALABILITY AND control for managing and automating complex
FLEXIBILITY cross-platform environments, ensuring that
production problems are detected and solved
BMC CONTROL-M:
through a consistent platform-independent
> Automates the details of production
management tool. This common interface
management
also reduces the learning curve, allowing fast
> Minimizes manual intervention in the implementation.
production process
BMC CONTROL-M works in both centralized
> Reduces manual errors and costs, and distributed environments. It delivers
streamlining the production flow maximum scalability and flexibility, regardless
BMC CONTROL-M supports both
> Simplifies production management through of hardware configuration or physical
change and growth. Whether you are
running 200 jobs or one million jobs user-friendly capabilities layout. The reliability designed into BMC
— for both mainframe and distributed CONTROL-M means that even in the event
Manage Everything From a Single Focal of a communication failure, data integrity
systems alike — BMC CONTROL-M
Point of Control is ensured and workload interruptions are
leverages a single architecture. As
BMC CONTROL-M’s consolidated active minimized. BMC CONTROL-M is effectively
evidence of the product’s ability to
environment furnishes a real-time graphical running production environments as small as
accommodate constantly changing
view of all connected systems and platforms a few hundred jobs per day and as large as
technologies, consider that the
across the enterprise. The BMC® CONTROL- hundreds of thousands of jobs per day.
average customer has had BMC
M/Enterprise Manager provides a focal point of
CONTROL-M for 10 years.
BMC CONTROL-M/Enterprise Manager GUI

5. FIND AND FIX PROBLEMS USING BMC CONTROL-M ARCHITECTURE
MANAGEMENT BY EXCEPTION The BMC® CONTROL-M/Enterprise Manager is
Find and Focus Only on the Problem Areas the focal point that brings these independent
A user-notification facility detects exception schedulers together. The BMC CONTROL-M
situations immediately and displays them in /Enterprise Manager provides the conduit for
an alert window. Color differentiation allows cross-platform dependencies, a common view
users to view both the location and severity through an all-encompassing GUI, a single
of a problem at a glance. All facets of the mechanism for scheduling on any platform,
abnormality can be handled directly through and central alert monitoring — all with the
drill-down menus. And, since exception ability to drill down to a problem job.
management is automatic, personnel are free
Each BMC CONTROL-M instance involves
to perform other duties during production runs.
either a server with one or more agents or
BMC CONTROL-M alerts also can be routed
a single physical scheduler with database
to BMC Performance Manager, BMC Remedy,
and processes in one logical unit. The
HP OpenView, Tivoli, or any other device that
BMC CONTROL-M/Enterprise Manager
can handle SNMP or SMTP transmissions.
communicates through gateways with the
Gain Extensive Integration with Standard BMC CONTROL-M instances to provide the
Applications required services.
BMC CONTROL-M includes interface options
with numerous third-party products and
applications, including ERP applications such
GUI BMC® CONTROL-M/
as SAP R/3, SAP BW, Oracle Applications, Enterprise Manager
PeopleSoft, and more. Tight integration also is
available for BMC Performance Manager and
BMC Remedy, as well as other management
frameworks and applications such as Tivoli and
HP OpenView, Vantive, and Info/Management. BMC® BMC® BMC®
CONTROL-M Server CONTROL-M Server CONTROL-M for z/OS
BMC CONTROL-M was developed with a rich WINDOWS UNIX MVS
set of functions, many of them evolving over
time in response to the specific business
needs of customers. With its broad variety of
features, BMC CONTROL-M often is installed
as a replacement solution for other vendors’ BMC® CONTROL-M
AGENT
BMC® CONTROL-M
AGENT
BMC® CONTROL-M
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scheduling products — the capabilities of
AS/400 WINDOWS UNIX LINUX
which typically are limited.
BMC CONTROL-M High-Level Architecture

6. BMC CONTROL-M INTEGRATES WITH BMC CONTROL-M adds many scheduling
YOUR APPLICATIONS capabilities to the SAP environment:
Smoothly Integrate Legacy and ERP > Provides a central management GUI and
Applications focal point of control
Each of your ERP applications can submit > Creates complex dependencies
and monitor batch jobs within its own
> Manages resources
environment. However, with very limited
scheduling power and minimal integration > Triggers external events
between the processes that occur within
> Intercepts ad hoc (and other) jobs and
these applications and those that happen
applies pre-defined logic, such as workload
in other applications, they are vulnerable to
balancing, etc.
manual errors, processing delays, and work
quality degradation. BMC CONTROL-M > Pro-actively manages data archiving
provides a completely integrated scheduling (workload balancing for DELETE jobs and
environment that includes all your legacy STORE jobs)
applications and your ERP application, > Automatically detects SAP parent-child
whether it is SAP Oracle Applications,
,
(spawned) jobs and associates “child”
PeopleSoft, or a homegrown or Web-based
jobs with their parent; monitors child jobs
application.
as part of the entire BMC CONTROL-M
BMC CONTROL-M offers specialized environment
application support through its application- > Adds additional capabilities for SAP
oriented job definition screens. These screens Business Warehouse scheduling, including:
significantly improve the user experience, seamless integration with BW and non-BW
minimizing learning curves, training costs, systems, scheduling of BW InfoPackages,
and human error by maintaining the same and BW Process Chains
look, feel, and terminology used in each
job definition process. BMC CONTROL-M’s BMC CONTROL-M for SAP is both a
specialized application module provides “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” solution and
bi-directional communication with your “Certified for SAP NetWeaver” solution.
application for quick and easy job definition
and management.
Integrate all Your SAP Instances With a
Single, Comprehensive Solution
The BMC CONTROL-M module for SAP
provides a complete and natural integration
between BMC CONTROL-M and your
entire SAP environment. Using the BMC®
CONTROL-M for SAP you can:
,
> Define and schedule new SAP jobs using
the BMC CONTROL-M GUI
> Schedule existing SAP jobs
> Monitor jobs already running in SAP

7. BMC CONTROL-M PROVIDES SECURED BMC CONTROL-M/FORECAST
FILE TRANSFER MANAGEMENT Predict Scheduling Problems and Prevent
CAPABILITIES Business Outages
File transfer activities are central to your BMC® CONTROL-M/Forecast provides the
business and have become a key building definitive answers to scheduling questions,
block in today’s IT infrastructure. These which might include:
transfers must be monitored and managed as > “How will my enterprisewide batch flow
an integral part of batch business processes look on the 21st of next month?”
through the enterprise scheduling solution.
> “What is the expected batch workload on
BMC CONTROL-M’s module for Advanced
File Transfer provides capabilities to: my main file server this Wednesday, in the
14:00 – 17:00 time window?”
> Define file transfers through an intuitive
> “Which jobs belonging to my HR application
GUI using specialized job definition forms,
are scheduled to run on my offshore site
enabling faster and errorless file transfer
next Saturday?”
definitions
> “Which scheduled jobs are impacted as
> Monitor and manage files in transfer,
a result of a four-hour shutdown of my
including compression, encryption, and
backup machine during the upcoming
checkpoint/restart capabilities
weekend?”
BMC CONTROL-M for Advanced File Transfer
BMC CONTROL-M/Forecast:
supports FTP FTP over SSL/TLS, and SFTP/
,
> Simulates the job flow for a given future
SSH.
date
> Provides a visual calendar of the dates
when the jobs are to be scheduled
> Provides an enterprisewide view and
extensive reporting on trend analysis and
workload balancing
BMC CONTROL-M Advanced File Transfer

8. AVOID COSTLY OUTAGES BY Batch business services dependencies
MONITORING BATCH BUSINESS also can be defined in the Configuration
Management Database (CMDB), allowing
SERVICES
companies to ensure that when a change
Determine and Predict the Immediate is planned, critical batch jobs are taken into
Potential Scheduling Issues and Their account.
Impact on the Business
BMC® Batch Impact Manager ensures the BUSINESS PROCESS INTEGRATION:
successful, on-time completion of critical SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATE, AUTOMATE,
BMC Batch Impact Manager batch business processes by proactively AND SCHEDULE ALL YOUR NEW
Key Benefits determining the business impact of a failure
APPLICATIONS
or delay. Users can define and manage batch
> Manages critical batch processes
flows on a business process level rather than Business processes today span batch jobs
from a business perspective
just on a job level. as well as real-time processes, but they
> Proactively detects potential delays often are managed from two separate
Align IT Operations With Key Business
and errors perspectives: batch jobs are managed via a
Objectives
> Prioritizes the resolution of delays
job scheduler, and real-time processes via
Achieving batch management from a business
integration brokers. Integration between the
or failures based on their business perspective begins with identifying your most
two usually is achieved via file transfers and
impact critical business services, their related critical
scripts, and is prone to errors.
> Ensures the on-time completion of batch processes, and the batch jobs that
batch processing and the availability facilitate them. Once critical batch processes Business Process Integration Offers
of business services are identified, BMC Batch Impact Manager Single Point of Control
dynamically tracks the status of the critical BMC® CONTROL-M Business Process
jobs and will predict the delay of a business Integration Suite brings Java applications,
process. The solution accomplishes this using Web services, and message-oriented
job information and statistics from previous middleware together with traditional batch
executions to determine if a service will be jobs. This combination allows for a single
completed on time, be early, or be late. If the point of control and business service
calculated completion time will not meet the management for the entire enterprise, while
“Must Complete By” time definition, a delay minimizing code changes when implementing
is identified and a predefined proactive alert application integration.
is sent. This innovative approach for batch
management assures your recovery actions
will be prioritized according to the importance
of the business service at risk.

9. “ Job Scheduling has evolved to a point where it is a critical
part of the business process, not just a segment of IT. Process
and workload automation are well integrated in most business
practices and are essential for the success of every modern
organization around the globe.”
Gur Steif
Vice President, BMC CONTROL-M and BMC CONTROL-D Line of Business
BMC Software
Focus on Business Services, not IT BMC CONTROL-M Business Process
Components Integration Suite is an automation broker that
BMC CONTROL-M Business Process enables managing batch jobs and real-time
Integration Suite provides a simple way to processes as a single business process. This
schedule Web services in the same way suite:
traditional batch jobs are being scheduled.
> Offers event-based scheduling
BMC CONTROL-M Business Process
Integration Suite allows you to: > Provides a single view of the business
process
> Schedule a Web service or a servlet job
with the power of BMC CONTROL-M > Offers Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
> Use BMC CONTROL-M functionality
available via a Web service interface
> Integrate with IBM WebSphere ® , Microsoft
BizTalk® , BEA WebLogic ® , JBOSS, and
more
Enhance Java Application Automation
The BMC CONTROL-M Business Process
Integration Suite schedules Java classes and
EJBs the same way traditional batch jobs are
scheduled — via the BMC CONTROL-M GUI
— and BMC CONTROL-M’s Java API allows
any application to utilize the various BMC
CONTROL-M functions.

10. MIGRATE WITH CONFIDENCE TO BMC BMC IS STRONGLY COMMITTED TO
CONTROL-M BMC CONTROL-M
BMC CONTROL-M helps you mitigate both BMC has maintained a strong commitment
the cost and potential risk of migrating from to the future of BMC CONTROL-M and
your current schedulers by: continues to ensure that it is still the most
advanced scheduling system available -- even
> Providing an architecture that allows
20 years after its launch.
BMC CONTROL-M to coexist with other
schedulers, freeing you to use the most The BMC CONTROL-M research and
convenient migration plan development team not only is larger than
> Offering automated conversion tools that
any of our competitors’ R&D teams, it also
benefits through synergies from other BMC
have been proven in varied environments;
technologies and from a comprehensive
the BMC conversion methodology utilizes
worldwide support infrastructure.
these tools to achieve a migration that fits
each customer’s project objectives Some important BMC CONTROL-M facts:
> Leveraging the experience gained from > BMC CONTROL-M has more than 2,000
more than 20 years of migrating from customer installations
other scheduling solutions (We have con-
> BMC dedicates 165 employees to R&D for
verted more than 5 million jobs at 1,500+
companies from other schedulers to BMC scheduling
CONTROL-M.) These factors contribute to a strong track
> Leveraging BMC Certified Service Providers record of development, enhancement, and
— a team of experienced consultants who support that has kept BMC CONTROL-M at the
design and implement highly effective leading edge of scheduling technology. When
solutions your scheduling needs change in the future,
BMC and BMC CONTROL-M will be ready.

11. BMC CONTROL-M COMPLEMENTS BSM Business Service Management
Business Service Management is the most
Quality of Quality of
effective approach for managing IT from Service Transactions Experience
the perspective of the business. However,
most vendors that claim to deliver BSM
Business User
solutions actually only offer simple products
and methodologies for online elements such
Service Level
as databases, servers, and various network Management
components. These vendors are missing a
Service Impact Service
vital component of the BSM equation: the
Management Desk
need to monitor batch processes. The result is IT
that more than half of all critical business data
processing is completely ignored.
Discovery
BMC is the only vendor offering end-to-end Capacity CMDB Software
service monitoring and reporting, and BMC Management Configuration
Batch Impact Manager is the only solution
that manages batch SLAs and provides real-
time information on the health of critical Change Asset
batch business services. BMC CONTROL-M Management Management
and BMC Batch Impact Manager integrate
with BMC® Service Impact Manager, the Identity
BMC CMDB, and BMC Remedy to provide a Provisioning Management
complete and accurate solution, covering all
critical components of your business service. Event
Management
The across-the-board nature of the BMC
CONTROL-M solution and its ability to integrate
Mobile
with other solutions makes it a significant and Storage
Batch and Online Applications
vital contributor to BSM.
Performance and Availability
With Business Service Management, you will
reduce cost, lower risk of business disruption, Database
Desktop
and benefit from an IT infrastructure built to
support business growth and flexibility. BSM Middleware
Mainframe
helps your IT organization do more of what and Distributed
Network
supports the business and less of what doesn’t, Servers
and having an end-to-end solution can be the
difference between failure and success.

12. ABOUT BMC SOFTWARE
BMC Software helps IT organizations drive greater business value through better
management of technology. Our industry-leading Business Service Management
solutions ensure that everything IT does is prioritized according to business impact,
so IT can proactively address business requirements to lower costs, drive revenue,
and mitigate risk. BMC solutions share BMC Atrium™ technologies to enable IT to
manage across the complexity of diverse systems and processes — from mainframe to
distributed, databases to applications, service to security. Founded in 1980, BMC has
offices worldwide and fiscal 2005 revenues of more than $1.46 billion. BMC Software.
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