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Control-M/EM : Run same command on multiple jobs using hostgroup

Introduction: For a specific use case , it was asked to create jobs running same script on 30 agents ,each one defined on its dedicated server. Also depending on the server list ,we had to start jobs with specific users.

Migration with Data Guard: Oracle on Windows AWS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle offers a number of methods to migrate Oracle databases to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). From Data Pump through RMAN, Data Guard and even Golden Gate there should be a solution for just about everyone. However, most of these(…)

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(…)

New features in OMrun 5.0

We are excited to announce several new features that will be coming with OMrun soon. These features have been developed with the feedback of our customers in mind. In addition we also made a lot of small improvements. Many of(…)

GitLab Migration and Upgrade

I’ve worked with my mate Donovan Winter (we are called Thomson and Thompson!) on a very interesting project for one of our customer that’s worth sharing. They had an old version of GitLab (release 13.3.4) running in a pod in(…)

Combine Oracle SEHA on ODA with Dbvisit StandbyMP?

I recently blog on Oracle SEHA on ODA, see my article https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/seha-on-oda/. Oracle SEHA is used for High Availability for Standard Edition. Dbvisit Standby is a Disaster Recovery well known application designed for Oracle Standard Edition.

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(…)

Ansible Event Driven Automation

In my previous blogs about Ansible, I covered a few use cases: Simple playbooks Use Ansible like a Programming Language REST API calls Gather(…)

Migration with Multitenant: how easy it is!

Introduction On Oracle Database, Multitenant feature will be turning 9 in July, but it’s not yet widely deployed as most of the databases are still running on non-CDB architecture. With 19c, Multitenant is now mature and free if you stick(…)

ChatGPT vs DevOps

As a lot of curious people, I have experimented with ChatGPT in order to figure out if it could be helpful in my work as a DevOps consultant or even replace me (why not?). If you are also interested to(…)