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Control-M from BMC is a platform for integrating, automating, and orchestrating application and data workflows in production across complex hybrid technology ecosystems. It provides deep operational capabilities, delivering speed, scale, security, and governance.
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What is Control-M?
Control-M from BMC is a platform for integrating, automating, and orchestrating application and data workflows in production across complex hybrid technology ecosystems. It provides deep operational capabilities, delivering speed, scale, security, and governance. Control-M simplifies workflow complexity with a single end-to-end enterprise view, and decentralized and targeted self-service interfaces for developers, data and cloud engineers, business users, and IT Operations teams. Control-M also provides a set of out-of-the-box integrations for the latest application, data, and cloud technologies.
Control-M Features
Workload Automation Features
- Supported: Multi-platform scheduling
- Supported: Central monitoring
- Supported: Logging
- Supported: Alerts and notifications
- Supported: Analysis and visualization
- Supported: Application integration
Additional Features
- Supported: SLA Management
- Supported: Data pipeline orchestration
- Supported: Hybrid and multi cloud workflow orchestration
- Supported: Jobs-as-Code and DevOps support
- Supported: Self-service interfaces
- Supported: Conversion tool
- Supported: Workload archiving
- Supported: Self-healing and remediation
- Supported: Standards in production
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Control-M Integrations
- Apache Airflow
- Microsoft Azure
- Alteryx Designer Cloud
- Azure Backup
- Google BigQuery
- Google Cloud Functions
- Google Cloud Dataflow
- Azure Databricks
- Automation Anywhere
- Amazon Athena
- Azure Machine Learning
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Apache Hadoop
- AWS Lambda
- Impala Open Distribution
- Amazon SageMaker
- Apache Hive
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
- Docker
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Apache Pig
- HashiCorp Terraform
- Apache Spark
- Snowflake
- UiPath Integration Service
- Talend Data Integration
- Oracle Linux
- Microsoft Power BI
- SQL Server Integration Services
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- PostgreSQL
- AWS Data Pipeline
- AWS Step Functions
- Google Cloud Dataplex
- Google Cloud Dataproc
- Google Cloud Deployment Manager
- Azure Resource Manager
- Azure Logic Apps
- Azure HDInsight
- Azure DevOps Services
- Azure Data Factory
- Databricks Lakehouse Platform
- AWS Glue
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Batch
- Amazon QuickSight
- Azure Batch
- CentOS Linux
- Db2
- SingleStore
- Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)
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Control-M Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, UNIX, z/OS, i5/OS |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Countries | Global support |
| Supported Languages | English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew |
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Control-M from BMC is a platform for integrating, automating, and orchestrating application and data workflows in production across complex hybrid technology ecosystems. It provides deep operational capabilities, delivering speed, scale, security, and governance.
Broadcom Automic Automation, CA Workload Automation, and IBM Workload Automation are common alternatives for Control-M.
Reviewers rate Central monitoring highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Control-M are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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April 26, 2022
Control-M Workload and Task Management platform
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Control-M is a solid and stable platform and technology that allows task management, workload automation, and change management cycle with an integrated framework for developers working in batch process delivery. Control-M brings the capacity for centralized workload automation management with multi-tenancy and distributed architecture orchestrating all system components and agents as part of the platform. Business processes can be operated and visualized in real-time execution focusing on priority and urgency.
- Change management for development cycle
- Orchestration for batch processes
- Platform performance and centralized management
- Platform support
- Agents logs could be indexed and stored on a centralized repository
- Job as code is a new concept that requires more technical skills for developers
March 27, 2017
Control-M newbie, but impressed
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Control-M currently has a small footprint, but with the move to v9 we are looking to fully leverage the automation capabilities as well as Self Service and WCM to make it available across the entire organization. This will address the needs for off hours work and free up IT staff time to complete other projects/tasks.
- Using AFT, sending files to customers is automated and can be customized for success, failure, etc. allowing visibility into the process for all involved
- Self Service is a powerful addition as it allows jobs to be setup and available to users via the web. You can have granularity into the jobs then as access is assigned to users based on their roles, allowing the ability to order the job, or maybe even just monitor the progress.
- Workload Change Manager is going to give us the ability to allow our developers to implement Control-M into the design and coding stages instead of after the fact. This will save time as they will be able to see the end results right away and make adjustments if necessary without having to wait for a scheduler to make the changes. This also allows us to promote from lower environments with some oversight and control. This will be the biggest takeaway for us moving to v9.
- The ability to set default view settings would be a nice add as it would allow the admin to better control the environment for each user role/level of access. This would be especially helpful when it comes to differing environments (dev/test/etc.)
- The licensing structure could be better laid out. Typically when purchasing a licensing suite, you get the full offering for that product, but that is not currently the case for Control-M.
- The ability to setup multiple site customizations and associate them with the access level/role of the user would be something I would prefer to move to the top of the list of things to be done differently as this would allow better customization for web access by eliminating things that you don't want that particular role to have access to.
February 17, 2017
My Control-M review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It's used in BI. It's used to schedule our batch jobs which pull data from various sources independent of the technology used.
- Dependencies between the jobs of various tools/technologies. We run Informatica, .Net, SAS, SQL - all kinds of jobs and Control-M works very well with each kind of job.
- Email alerting facility after completion, failure; ability to retry jobs.
- Ability to run a job multiple times a day.
- Cyclic jobs. Dependencies have issues if cyclic jobs fail and we rerun. Failed cyclic jobs do not show up in red color.
- Old jobs which did not run. Control-M should change the color of yesterday's ordered jobs vs. today's jobs.
January 20, 2017
Control-M at OLG
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Control-M was introduced across our enterprise to eliminate manual execution of our batch job environment and create a central point of control. This enables us to coordinate activities enterprise-wide and eliminate many issues of data corruption due to timed job execution through crontab, Windows Scheduler, menu-driven job flow releases through menus created in OpenVMS. Product's internal schedules are now visible. Ad-hoc executions are monitored and managed effectively, through one central point of control, providing a complete overview of all activities.
- GUI presentation
- Operations can identify job flows and realize business impact visually
- Provides control within operations
- Processing streams can be halted immediately during a failure, without intervention and eliminates cascading issues and problems
- Self-Service access
- Providing browser access for all our users enables them to view their processes and realize interfaces and impact that their processes have on other systems. User access and viewing reduce delays during problem resolution as it enhances communication and expedites root cause determination.
- Direct product interfaces using modules
- DataStage job schedules are fast and are easily configured as well as Database maintenance functions which can now be linked to before and after DB activities
- Setting up Site Standards needs some enhancements
- More robust functionality for field validation is needed, such as only one Quantitative Resource rule can be applied on multiple QR's defined in a job. Therefore giving warnings on QR standards because each QR must match all QR rules
- Reporting structure is a bit cumbersome and needs a more effective interface. Jumping from panel to panel is not very effective.
- Connection profile password management is tough to maintain. Each entry must be manually updated every time there is a password update. Since our policy is that all system passwords must expire after 180 days and we must be included in all application related password updates. Unfortunately that also is an issue where the Control-M administrator is globally aware of those passwords, which should be held confidentially by each separate group
September 08, 2016
A retired Schedulers review of Control-M (translation: no axe to grind)
My previous company uses Control-M to manage all of their batch processing on all platforms. They process 150,000 batch jobs daily and needed an automated process to handle them. The bulk of these jobs are MVS processed and the rest process on UNIX and Windows. A large number of these flows have processing than runs on multiple platforms.
- Handling dependencies between platforms.
- Handling miscellaneous dependencies (dependencies other than Job dependencies).
- Learning curve is very steep. It takes way too long to get new employees up to speed.
- There isn't any educational material provided to train new employees.
- Our company had a long history of involving our business partners (non IT areas) in the scheduling process. Control-M did not have (and after 20 years) still does not have any sort of interface that our business partners could use. (So we created one ourselves.)
August 13, 2016
Control-M, the best WLA Tool
We are using Control-M version 8 to execute jobs in SAP (R/3 and Business warehouse) jobs, script jobs in Unix and a Windows platform. Mainly it is being used by SAP users and some TED (our internal data warehouse) users. it was helpful in automating many things.
- The GUI is very good
- BIM is very helpful
- In the monitoring domain, please enable users to modify things like owner, set to dummy (options which are grayed out must be opened).
- Just like we have folders under home, please create some thing like jobs where-in we put in the job name then select it and run them. This make easy in an organization like us where we get a lot of requests to just run the jobs.
July 06, 2016
Control M review
Control-M is used in my company as the primary job scheduler for all departments. We use it with various versions of Unix/Linux and Windows Operating Systems. Using Control-M allows us to standardize our job scheduling environment and enables us to complete all batch processing for our company with maximum insight into any issues that may occur.
- Control-M is very stable. It is rare to have any issues with the application.
- Dealing with dependencies is handled very well. Dependencies are easy to set up whether they are on the same server or across platforms.
- Alerting is also a strength in Control-M. It has a built in tie in to the Remedy system which allows ticket creation to be handled easily.
- I would like to see some improvement in handling conditions from previous days.
- I would like to see some improvement in being able to send out alert notifications on jobs that have not started past the new day.
June 23, 2016
Control-M is gromming year by year
Control-M is used across the organization, it helps the business to know of failures in a timely manner, and to investigate the issue immediately and figure out exactly where the impact is.
We sometimes find out from users that the trucks are stuck and not moving, due to pink slips not getting generated at the warehouse.
We immediately identify which is the job getting delayed, and we reach out to the right functional team to resolve the issue.
Control-M is easy to use, and reliable and we look forward to vast growth in the future if troubleshooting steps are made easier.
We feel bad having to tell our customers that an issue occurred due to the Control-M application, and we are still looking forward to a solution on retry submit for our JD Edwards Jobs.
- Map view and list view make it easy to filter jobs
- The planning domain for monitoring domains is a good idea on the application side
- The control-M modules are great
- Forecasting is another beneficial feature
- Bugs which I know cannot be entirely avoided are an issue
- It should be simpler and easier to install the control-m packages
- Troubleshooting steps should be be available: need to provide more videos on problem areas by checking the incident tickets raised by users on the BMC side
June 23, 2016
Control-M Rocks
Control-M has been our enterprise scheduling solution since 2004. It provides us with a single point of controlling and monitoring job flows across various operating system platforms. We use Control-M to execute jobs on Windows servers and then trigger jobs on AS400 and AIX servers where data then gets transferred to and processed and then sent back to the Windows servers for post processing. The automated alerts that are sent to application owners are valuable to get quick resolution to job failures and delays. The self service feature allows our users to monitor and interact with their active scheduled jobs.
- Scheduling Flexibility. We have some very unique schedules. For example: we run a job on the 2nd Sunday after the 2nd Tuesday of the month.
- Cross platform interdependencies. Allows us to trigger jobs on the various different OS platforms.
- Notification from jobs. Failure alerts, job late and running long notification.
- One feature that I feel needs some improvement is the ability to create a graphical flow chart of jobs and be able to print it and look nice.
June 22, 2016
Control-M is a great tool for scheduling needs
Currently we run around 20,000 jobs per day using Control-M in our mainframe and distributed environments. Once the job is scheduled to run either on a time based dependency or on a predecessor/successor dependency, it will take off accordingly. With a lot of self service options like scheduling to run an on demand job etc., it is great tool to get the work done without much dependency from other teams. It is used across the whole organization. We always look at Control-M whenever we think about having a report scheduled to be delivered on a regular basis.
- Once the job is scheduled in Control-M, it is all set to go on a regular basis. Very stable.
- Good GUI interface to drill down the failed jobs to further troubleshoot or to notify the owners of the jobs.
- Self Service options.
- It would be great if we can get some good customized reporting options to pull various reports.
June 22, 2016
Best of breed and moving farther ahead
Control-M is used as the corporate Workload Automation tool and is particularly used in cross-platform scenarios (mainly Linux and Windows servers) when active resource management is required, for integrated housekeeping tasks (e.g. server housekeeping, backups, DB housekeeping) and when we need to ensure guaranteed operations. We use it to send out SMS alerts (and emails) when serious errors occur.
Application-wise we use it for Data Warehouse, PeopleSoft, file transfers, various banking apps, direct DB jobs (Control-M for Databases), Cadis, Tableau and managing various in-house apps.
- Control-M Advanced File Transfer is a very useful add-on, allowing for a wide variety of file transfers to be configured "out of the box" and then used as part of the standard batch flow. This module is not included in the base price but is available at a relatively small additional cost.
- Using Control-M's GUI (the Enterprise Manager) allows for efficient management of the enterprise and can tie up a lot of "loose ends". Often the first point of tracking problems is to check with the Control-M guys!
- BMC is definitely moving the product forward, the new module "Application Integrator" is very helpful in building and deploying your own bespoke Control-M jobs and allows for closer and more secure integration.
- Although Control-M does open up the enterprise in an operational sense, the security settings (should you choose to implement them) are robust.
- The reporting provided with Control-M could have more functionality, Many users end up creating their own reporting based on the Control-M DB. I believe BMC are addressing this.
- Within the Advanced File Transfer (AFT) it would be useful to have an integrated FT server and not rely on the underlying SSH.
- All batch schedulers have issues with fully automating tasks in a Windows environment and Control-M is no exception. Userids and profiles are harder concepts to deal with in the Windows world but BMC are doing their best to address this and Control-M would be better at handling these scenarios than the alternative products.
June 21, 2016
Control your jobs
We use Control-M for mainframe and distributed batch processing. It is used across the enterprise. We use it as a job scheduler. This replaces the Windows scheduler which we were using heavily.
- Easy to set up.
- Interfaces with third party applications.
- Friendly user interface that gives you a graphical view of your workload.
- Since it is such a robust product, users need extensive training.
- We have always run into issues with setting up security, which needs to be refined and made simpler.
- The reporting feature needs to be addressed. Its still a bit cumbersome to pull needed reports.
June 20, 2016
Control-M Review
Control-M is utilized by the IT department for scheduling batch processing and other recurring tasks.
- Control-M is an excellent Workload Automation tool and has nearly unlimited options for scheduling tasks. This provides great flexibility in balancing workloads.
- Sometimes too many options make it difficult to find a simple way to get the task done. Often it takes longer to locate or decide on a function than it does to implement it.
June 20, 2016
Control M Practical uses and Functions
We use Control-M for our mainframe and distributed scheduling needs. Control-M self service is also utilized so that we can give end users the ability to schedule and run some of their own jobs when needed or on an on demand basis. Currently, we run an average of 25,000 jobs per day via Control-M.
- Control-M has excellent calendar functionality that allows for detailed scheduling of jobs according to many specifics (day, month, year, time, preds, and several other conditions).
- The software is also easy to navigate and group related jobs together for easy viewing of job streams or flow.
- The alerts panel and its features make sure that if you encounter issues with any job it is brought to attention immediately for resolution.
- I would like to see an "on demand" refresh put back onto the GUI interface as well as the auto refresh it currently has.
- Although there are many different scheduling options, I think it would benefit the end users to have a better overall view of their jobs and job streams somehow.
June 09, 2016
My TrustRadius rating and review of Control-M
Control-M is used by the production control department to run many department's batch jobs. I can and will only address how I use Control-M. What business problems does it address? Addresses no business problems, but supports business needs.
- Easy to set up basic batch schedule needs.
- Production Control has integrated x-Matters with Control-M so when a job fails x-Matters now sends out a notification, which is quite timely, versus Production Control manually calling on-call staff.
- From my usage Control-M is quite stable; that is, up and running.
- Control-M documentation needs to include examples with screen snapshots when describing a particular scenario. What is the saying? "A picture is worth a thousand words." Also these snapshots are very useful for users (like myself) that only have view authorization for production Control-M job definitions and that do not create job definitions in development environment. Thus, unable to see all possible setting options and BMC documentation may describe these options but may not have a screen snapshot. For example, ON-Do Conditions.
- For a Control-M Enterprise Manager need to provide a better way to Load Folders and Jobs. Currently click on 'Planning', 'Load Folders and Jobs', scroll down to find parent folder, click on parent folder, select which job definitions you want to see, and then (look all the way to the bottom right corner) to click on 'Open'. Now if I decide I want to see a job definition I did not include I have to open another tab by clicking on '+' and scroll down to find parent folder, etc. Of course, one can click on the check box to the left of parent folder to see "all" the job definitions, but what if I do not want to see "all" the job definitions?
- Need better search capabilities. For instance search for all 'cyclic' job definitions in this parent folder. Find job whose Order Id is xxxxx.
- Need a better way for scheduling a job instead of having a job definition for each scheduling occurrence. Why can there not be one job definition that shows for Mon.-Fri. The In-Conditions are this and for Sat. and Sun. The In-Conditions are this? Thus, the 'Prerequisites' and 'Actions' tabs may need to be subset of 'Scheduling' tab.
We are using Control-M as a job scheduler, running all manner of job types from SSIS, Web Services, AFT, Encrypt and Decrypt, Stored Procedures, Batch Files, BCP, etc. It allows us to integrate our environments, creating complex dependencies between jobs, and monitor it using a well deigned console. It replaced an internal scheduling engine build on top of MSMQ and Windows native scheduler. It is used by the IT department, but email notifications and attachments are sent to business users around the company.
- Job Dependencies: Control-M can be used in sophisticated ways to link jobs - for example embedding logic that decides what return code to produce based on output from the job (e.g. look for an error message in the job log). It also allows force ordering a job (i.e. dynamically executing a job), or forcing a job status to OK or Failure. Of course it also has traditional job dependencies ( e.g. when job a finishes kick off job b, or kick off job c at a specific time). It also easily allows for combining various dependency types.
- Job Monitoring: Control-M has a sophisticated console for monitoring jobs. It allows easy access to job history and job output, and thru a GUI view of job dependencies.
- Job Setup: Control-M provides plugins for many different job templates including FTP, Cryptography, and web Services. It is highly configurable and provides a scripting language. Simple jobs can be set up in minutes using pre-built templates, and complex problems can also be solved by putting in the time and research.
- Single Major Action per job: this statement needs to be clarified. There are ways to do more than one action per job, and there are pre and post job commands available in most templates. Also some templates like FTP can have many instructions built in, like deleting source files after transfer (these are part of the positives). But basically you can only do one major action, like call one web service, or call one stored procedure per job. I believe this limitation is due to their licensing model, to ensure you will run as many jobs as possible.
- The only other negative is a necessary corollary of a having a powerful product. The learning curve is not simple due to the power of the product. I would recommend dedicate training for the primary operators and users of the product.
May 06, 2016
Control-M bringing the organization together
We used Control-M to centralize the jobs scheduling across the organization that was previously handled by numerous independent scheduling systems. Control-M allowed us to bring all of our job scheduling into one tool and gave our Network Operations Center a clear view of all the jobs running accross the organization.
- The ability to schedule jobs running on different platforms and to create dependenies between those jobs which is something that was not easily done with seperate independent scheduling systems.
- The ability to provide one common process for all job development effort.
- Gave our organization one view of all jobs running in the organization including centralized alerting and error handling processes.
- The job development screens are not always intuitive and there is definately a learning curve to getting new users/job developers up to speed.
- Control-M was originally developed as a mainframe scheduling tool and there are still some remnants of the mainframe mentality in the tool.
April 13, 2016
Control-M the one and only solution
We currently use Control-M in on part of our business but just completed a deal so we can roll it out to all of the company. With Control-M we are able to control our workflows very easily and with Self Service we now have a portal for end users to submit their work when they want it and without the need to submit a ticket/request.
- Enterprise View regardless of platform. The ability to see everything running on all Control-Ms is awesome and the ability to trigger jobs on other platforms provides even more flexibility.
- The Control-M module for SAP is the greatest thing ever. Takes very little setup and next thing you know you are scheduling SAP jobs in Control-M which provides you much more control than using SM36/37.
- Ease of Deployment. As of version 9 deploying the client to users and upgrading agents is no longer a chore and can be done with little work at all.
- Although Self Service is great for our users there needs to be a better way to set it up.
- Security is very difficult to setup if there is a need for granularity.
April 13, 2016
Ships, Containers, Trucks and Boxes
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is used company wide for batch processing but each area uses it differently. I have used ControlM/WLA for 20+ years since the days of ships, container, trucks and boxes. People will know what that means. I have had experience across multiple companies and industries throughout the years as well as some of its 'competitors'. I use the term competitors lightly as there has never been a product that worked the way that WLA does. The renewed focus on the product and company of BMC as a whole has been exciting to watch and be a part of. I would have no problem recommending this product to someone.
- Multi-platform/Cross platform use
- Ability to integrate a process into Control-M
- Overall product support from and engagement from BMC
- Currently have no input here. everything I am doing now is available within the product
February 10, 2016
BMC Control-M, your opportunity for greatness
We utilize Control-M across the entire organization to manage batch on multiple environments including Windows, Linux, and Mainframe. We are able to support the complex business and IT requirements through various features and plug-ins within Control-M.
- Centralized view of workflows across the organization.
- Ability to expose workflows to the business in a user friendly interface called Control-M Self Service.
- Powerful administration tools, intuitive administration utilities, and fantastic customer support.
- I would have some areas of discussion here, but with version 9 out now, BMC has really focused on addressing many of the administration issues and has really produced an outstanding product with version 9.
October 09, 2015
Control-M review for various users and platforms
Control-M is being used across the whole organization, both within the US and internationally for job automation. By going to one platform it has allowed us to be able to support and implement with a common language and time zone reference which makes after hours support much easier as users are in different time zones across the world.
- The scheduler interface is extremely user friendly, even for users that are not familiar with other job scheduling tools. We were able to implement Control-M and do cross-training for a number of departments. Users from other departments were able to quickly learn the tools and see if their jobs had completed successfully in order make troubleshooting their issues more efficient.
- The Gantt chart for when jobs are to run in the desktop is extremely helpful when planning for outages and downtime.
- Documentation from BMC is excellent.
- The reports seemed to be a bit clunky. I was never really able to build reports that pulled the data I was really looking for.
- For jobs that are set to run on demand or that are waiting for a resource always look like they're running in the Gantt charts. It would be beneficial if there was a way to differentiate those jobs from jobs that are actually running.
- We had issues more often that I'd have liked with not being able to see failure reasons. When looking at a failed job we would too often receive a message that the failure log could not be retrieved. This seemed to be a failure to write to the logs, not actually a failure to retrieve existing logs.