Batch Ops -Control-M review....
Updated August 10, 2024

Batch Ops -Control-M review....

Ram Lakshman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

Control-M is global standard distributed tool across my organisation. Control-M batch operations have been implemented on all the teams in the banking domain. Different modules of Control-M have been implemented and used extensively. I have been using Control-M for 17 years, I have seen so many enhancements and improvements in Control-M versions.

Pros

  • Schedule criteria, with respect to holidays and special days...etc. Control-M tool has good scheduling capabilities.
  • Control-M is capable implement with all technologies with different modules.
  • Control-M Self service for business users and management.
  • Control-M has excellent features to integrate with other applications via Control Modules.
  • Control-M APIs are very powerful and expensive used to integrate with other applications which don't have control modules.
  • Easy to migrate from one version to other version.
  • Easy to migrate jobs from other scheduling tools to Control-M. Working on CA to Control-M.

Cons

  • Control-M application HA capability has to enhanced.
  • Looking for Control-M HA with embedded database using postgreSQL.
  • KB article has to easy to search
  • ROI is good.
  • SLA management is good
Based on stability of the application, easy to learn and use.
We recently migrate mainframe job from CA7 to Control-M due to the pricing and new features in Control-M.

Do you think Control-M delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Control-M's feature set?

Yes

Did Control-M live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Control-M go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Control-M again?

Yes

HA capability with external db is well suited. But,Less priority in enhancing HA with internal db.

Control-M Feature Ratings

Workload Automation
10.0
Multi-platform scheduling
10
Central monitoring
10
Logging
10
Alerts and notifications
10
Analysis and visualization
10
Application integration
10

Using Control-M

2000 - We use Control-M for banking operation and 90% of banking application use Control-M for their daily batch process. Recently migrated CA7 scheduler to Control-M Z/OS.
4 - Control-M Administrator.
  • Batch processing and file processing.
  • Alerting
  • API
  • Control Modules
  • Reporting
  • Integrated with Splunk
  • Automation through API functions
  • BIM/SLA
  • Sending Realtime data to splunk
  • Integrated different application by using Control modules
  • BMC Helix

Evaluating Control-M and Competitors

Yes - CA7 replaced with Control-M for mainframes batch scheduling. This helps with integration of Control-M in distributed and mainframes like by sending the global conditions. Reduce the cross application dependency..etc.
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
N/A

Control-M Implementation

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.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes - We migrated from v19 hosted in solaris server to ver20 linux, from there moved to ver21 in linux with external DB with HA capability.
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
  • Data export and import
  • Compatibility errors

Control-M Training

  • Online Training
  • In-Person Training
  • No Training
Good.
Good information and well organized.
Yes, on-job training is more effective for scheduling and monitoring team. As i got the same when i started my job 17 years ago. User will get hand on experience while doing on-job training.

Configuring Control-M

Not much complex, as configuration was Stright forward and have to follow the document.
We follow the BMC document to configure the Control-M. But there are some document which BMC support person share based on the case and issue. Those information should be shared to fine tune the application for better performance and not to end up the issues.
No - there is no facility to customize the interface
No - the product does not support adding custom code
In alert windows, if the agent name column should added. Under Reporting facility more option should be provided to generate the reports easy like combination of different tables from the DB.

Control-M Support

Post recent migration to ver9.0.21.200, we are getting lot of issues. Where i used to raise case and get solution. If the issue was not high level. ITs take long time to get solution. Even though we have provided the logs. As its new version, R&D team should be look-in to this issue quickly to provide solution.
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Knowledgeable team
Kept well informed
Immediate help available
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
Problems left unsolved
Escalation required
Yes
Yes - Yes, Many issue got resolved on time.
Post go-live in PROD, we encounter many issue between Apr-2024 to July-2024. During that time we got issue with new production got solution.

Using Control-M

ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Lots to learn
  • Integration application with Control modules
  • API
  • Job scheduling
  • API's
Yes - Yes, good. We use mobile interface to check the jobs status from any where , any time.

Control-M Reliability

Integrating Control-M

  • People Soft
  • Splunk
  • API
  • DB
  • Z/OS
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • IBM Informatica
  • SAP
  • Airflow
  • File import/export
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
  • Javascript widgets
  • ETL tools
  • AppExchange or similar marketplace
At this point of time, I dont find any.

Relationship with BMC Software Inc.

Upgrading Control-M

Yes - Yes due to the external DB, the DB encoding change we had issue with spl character in the old DB. Which has to clean up, took longer time to fix.Other wise upgrade was went fine.
  • Vendor Support
  • New features with web interface
  • DR/HA with in the application.
  • Minus the dependency with infra team.
  • Easy to migrate with in the server.
  • Agent upgrade

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