Control-M for Mainframe Reviews

It allows user to define, schedule, monitor jobs across multiple platforms and those jobs can be sceheduled based on time. It can handle large volume of jobs and workflows making the tool usability frequently and easy.Automated scheduling and monitoring of jobs reduce the risk of human error, and enhace the reliability of batch process.

We can get the support from BMC customer care for this tool. It integrates with large number of platforms and databases.

It is expensive to implement and has performance issues while dealing with complex workloads. Implementing and integrating it into existing workflow requires changes in the process and requires change management.

1) It helps in scheduling the Batch jobs in Mainframe Z/OS environment.

.Can set flags and control the running of the jobs

Hard to get a control-m job ran on the fly

It provides our mid-tier apps to have a job scheduler

User interface and the ability with which I can perform my tasks.

Nothing as of such. It is already very user friendly when it comes to using it

Please go for it. Its much easier to use than other scheduler.

Taking care of batch scheduling and I have realised its much better to use it than other scheduler.

For Mainframes Platform I found Control-m as the most most accessible scheduler. It clearly shows the dependencies in terms of conditions and out conditions for the other jobs to execute. Its easy-to-use and UI based Control-m tool simplifies the scheduling tasks to a matter of drag and drop .

Sometimes the scheduling becomes really complicated when you have very specific schedules for certain jobs like run the job with different conditions for the holiday runs.

Its a very effective and convenient tools for the mainframes scheduler.Also it's well designed to accommodate complex scheduling requirements of jobs for various schedules and calenders.

It works, saves a lot of time, and reduces problems

It's complex, and sometimes solving problems is difficult.

I'm told that pricing is an issue.

Go for it.

.The simplicity of the tool and the keywords

Sometimes the systems lags a bit and thats not natural

Scheduling our monthtly reports to be sent to clients

Very stable compare to all products available in market

Enabling secure mode is cumbersome and there is no possibility to use of secret in system varibles

We are using control m yo monitor and schedule batch processing Easy to use, very stable product.

It is very easily manageable to handle and check job flows to monitor. Durning my experience, it helped me lot in the production support project to monitor and reports status of the each application jobs

I don't see option on how to connect Contol M with distributed system

Very easy to handle and monitor the critical jobs flow

It reduced manual efforts efficiently

I admire it's graphical layout. During batch processing i enjoyed watching progress. I worked on large system which got more than 10k jobs to execute. Options like 'n' which generate dependencies chain (predecessors and successors) was very useful to find where your processing fails. It was very easy to steer workload processing by putting F, H etc (force, hold etc) next to desired job. Also job parameterization card on which input conditions, semafors, time conditions etc was designed in user friendly way. One other options which was very nice for me was a card to define callendars (laboral days, holidays etc). C-M scheduler is my favourite along others which i got occasion to work with.

Unfortunately i got no negative expirience, sorry :)

I was batch support for major polish bank. Benefits are ease of use and nice interface allowing find point where batch processing stocked.

I came across this tool a couple months ago through a colleague. I have been using it since then to schedule bulk mainframe batch transactions. The setup is very transparent and user friendly.

To be honest I don't have anything to dislike about this. However I would suggest to include a web based setup for monitoring jobs. This could help the monitoring tech support teams.

We used to load bulk mainframe transactions on a weekly basis. The batch job set up is a hectic work. But this tool has made the job done very efficiently with in matter of time. Also there are a variety of options available to achieve them.