Control-M

Control-M /EM Update your job notifications using template

Introduction Hi everybody Today we will see a typical use case you can have during your Control-m tasks.You already know how to update a job using the planning domain and I have made some blogs about updating more than one(…)

Control-M/EM How to allow check-in with validation error

Hi everybody Introduction For some test purpose I wanted to export my folders but with some fields missing ( for example the host name or the “run as” field ) but as you know it’s not possible to do(…)

Control-M/EM : Use case workload policy and odate

Introduction Hi team I had a request to block a bunch of jobs in order to allow another to perform a maintenance task on the related servers/applications , but only for specific date and time window(example for next Thursday(…)

Introducing Control-M 9.0.21

At a customer, we are preparing an upgrade to Control-M 21. As you know the first step is to have a look on what's new, what's changed, corrected/known issues and of course the compatibility for the new version 9.0.21. This(…)

How to use the licensing Control-M reporting tool

BMC Software requests yearly a licencing report of the usage of Control-M at the customer site, for that they send you a request to generate a report by using a Usage Reporting Tool provided by them and send back the(…)

How to trigger an action in On Do Action based of a text in the Job Log output

Normally we can trigger an On Do Action based on string found in the Job Output. But we would like to do the same for a Job log, that feature doesn’t exist, but there is a way to make it(…)

Control-M /EM – How to manage Control-M utility restriction for Remote hosts

Hi team, today we will see how to restrict the Control-M utility when using your remote hosts. we will perform a quick test to show how it works before the modification , then after. first of all(…)

Control-M EM – Control-M Automation API Overview and Installation

Hi Everybody, Today we will see how to use jobs as code with Control-M.We are aware that Jenkins is able to do that, but now we will try the new BMC product called Control-M Automation API. As described by(…)

Control-M EM “export” option of Control-M Web is not working on MS EDGE and Chrome

Hello everybody, I recently faced issues when using some control-m features on EDGE and Chrome.Indeed I was not able to get my folder exported in XML format, something was blocking. Issue description When clicking on the export button nothing happens,(…)

Control-M/EM Add a suffix to your jobs using mass update utility

Hi guys,and girls of course 😉 Sometimes we have to make some cleanup on our Control-m folders and also we have to keep them disabled (we never know if one day the can be used again by a new agent)(…)