Control-M vs. TrueSight Automation for Servers

In the past, I was a Partner at BMC Software, having contact with many national and international clients; knowing different ways of working in each of these clients that acquired Control-M or migrated from another WLA to BMC, I saw that it is the most adaptable to the different ways of working of each company. Today, I work as a BMC Software client as the administrator and see all the possibilities that can be done, having known many ways of exploiting Control-M in different companies. That is why I highly recommend Control-M as the best way to integrate, unify, and automate different applications, services, and products in one place.

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It would be very good to backup multiple platforms.

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• Control-M provides a single, centralized interface for monitoring and managing all batch processes in the organization. Nothing is hidden or left unattended in a timely manner.
• The proper use of the BIM component has allowed the change of paradigm in the operation, adopting a proactive management instead of the typical reactive management in the event of production failures.
• The use of Forecast and production simulations allows you to identify bottlenecks and focus first on managing those failures that have the greatest impact on production SLAs.
• Control-M/Change Manager has arrived to shorten development cycles from requirements gathering to production testing. It has been a utility that monetizes the development of Jobs meshes.
• The GUI is capable of efficiently handling more than 80,000 jobs per day. This is certainly a challenge in designing a good user experience. I don't know if there is a reasonable limit to this. One of my clients runs more than 80,000 Jobs daily and the GUI remains smooth all the time.
• Job-As-Code is a DevOps accelerator that has just begun to be adopted. Its implementation will make workload management even more cost-effective.

• The backup process is simple and easy to learn and change.
• It has the ability to manage multiple platforms.
• It also can push configures to multiple devices at once.

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• More sophisticated root cause analysis tools would help identify and address job failures more efficiently.
• The ability to create custom reports tailored to specific business needs would provide greater flexibility.
• Expanding the API capabilities would allow deeper integration with other systems and tools.
• Ensuring that Control-M can handle increasing workloads and data volumes without performance degradation is crucial.

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• It would easier for users if there are more report templates.
• The dashboard can be improved as well.
• Otherwise, I am pretty happy with the tools.

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Our batch and batch release mechanisms are now closely aligned with Control-M. We have invested significantly in the product and spent many man-hours developing the batch. We could migrate to slightly cheaper products but that would require projects with large overheads and Control-M is recognized as the most stable solution available. Moreover, BMC are actively developing it (which is not the case with schedulers from some other software providers) and are often the first with innovations and integrations with new platforms. Although Control-M is directly comparable with competing products, we now have substantial in-house Control-M knowledge and migration away from it would cause issues.

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Since it is GUI-based, it is not hard to use, although all new programs have a learning curve. The color scheme is easy to use to find the status of different Batch jobs. The check-in and check-out feature of job definitions is easy to use and avoids problems with users trying to use the same resource at the same time.

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We've had issues with a server crashing. The latest issue has the option for high availability which should help with that.

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performace wise Control-M is doing well, 1 laks jobs loaded in a min from tool

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He contactado varias veces con el soporte de BMC y ha sido bastante bueno, siempre han sabido darme una solución a lo que he pedido. Esta vez quiero hacer alguna nueva pregunta, pero no se si se me podrá contestar, ya que es algo que tal vez fuera de otro rango y no pertenezca a ellos.

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As HA we have depend on the external DB, why don't we have HA feasibility with embedded DB. As with external DB, there are performance issues and fine tuning the DB. As if its embedded DB, Control-M it self take care of the functionality.

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Since IBM Workload Automation isn't compatible with all of our project's operating systems, we've decided to switch to using Control-C instead. Second, the provider provides top-notch customer service in the event of an emergency. Control-M is a lightweight program that places few demands on the server's resources.

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from my experince i would suggest to customers Control-M first

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Yes, Control-M is more relaible and scalable but needs to improve more stability especially the communciation between the agents, CTM server and EM

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i am using it for past 9 years and i really like this tool very much

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• Control-M provides an easy to use, visual approach to monitoring the existing production, determining status of service level agreements, timely notification of potential issues, and analytical tools for forecasting and running 'what if' scenarios.
• For people who are motivated to learn, Control-M provides an intuitive approach with minimal learning curve.

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• Make my work more reliable.

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