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CONTROL-M for z/OS Whats new in 6.3.04

Diagnostic and housekeeping

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Reduce the issue handling cycle to a single iteration of retrievinginformation from the customer

Minimize tickets handling time to minimum

Identify the root cause of a problem without the need to reproducethe problem

Automate housekeeping activities and recovery from internalproduct failures

Supervise Install activities

Analyze & optimize theproduction environment

6.3.04 Diagnostic centered maintenance version

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In Memory Trace support

First Failure Data Capture

All traces will be accumulated in wrap-around buffer

Except very few

Customer will select the size number of recorded minutes

50MB 300k lines ~ 15 min 150 MB 900k lines ~ 30 min - default

250 MB 1500k lines ~ 75 min

Controlling the buffer trace member in CTM.PARM library

BUFMODE=YESALLOC=M,LINES=900000

TRACE=(1:110,121,163,166,221,222),BUFID=M,BUF=REDIR

Command FLUSH to print the content to DATRACE

Every DUMP will contain the buffer

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Identifying workload trends and bottlenecks

For each TASK, AS and NewDay

Periodical collection of Resources consumption (CPU, Memory I/O)

Ongoing monitoring of internal product activities

Proactive notification on long response times

Each internal is measured separately

Reports both to SMF, LOG, WTO (controlled by trace)

Reports on NewDay

Reports on demand

Reports every requested interval

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Improve product stability

Automatic recovery from product internal failures

Suggestion for manual recovery alternative

Clarify error messages generated by the product

Generate trace files and buffer dumps for further investigation

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NEWDAY options through Modify Commands

No need for manual setting of DATREC

NEWDAY=SKIP - Continue execution without NewDay

like at recovery site

NEWDAY=NOW,date Run multiple days in a single day

NEWDAY=hhmm,date - Newday execution for tomorrows jobs

NEWDAY=NOW,RERUN - restart of Newday processing

NEWDAY=NOW,FORMATONLY - compress the AJF

S CTMTDAY,PARM=ORDERONLY - Ordering phase problems

NEWDAY=NOW,RERUN - Product testing

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UserDaily association through EM

User fill the userdaily field in the table attributes

UserDaily - tables Relationship maintained by CONTROL-M for z/OS

Value will be update in CONTROL-M for z/OS during Upload

EXEC CTMEMUDL,PARM=userdailyname to execute

preprocessor for CTMJOB

EXEC CTMEMUDL,PARM=userdailyname,LIST to list

EXEC CTMEMUDL,PARM=*,LIST to list all UserDaily names

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z/OS Health Checker support

New CTMPARM section

*--------------------------------------------------*

* IBM Health Checker parameters *

*--------------------------------------------------*

HEALTH HCHECKER=Y, Enable IBM Health Checker support Y/N)

HCJDAYS=3, Dormant job definition (days)HCJINTRV=24, Dormant job check interval (hours)

HCMINTRV=25, CTMPARM compare interval (min)

HCPINTRV=1, Job processing check interval (min)

HCTINTRV=10 AJF Threshold check interval (min)

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z/OS Health Checker support

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z/OS Health Checker support

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z/OS Health Checker support

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z/OS Health Checker support

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z/OS Health Checker support

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z/OS Health Checker support

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Flow Re-Run enhanced confirmation

Change the default of RESWPF3 RUN command must be issued

Change the default of SACTRVF LIST will be the shown

Confirmation window after the selecting jobs and issuing RUNcommand.

Changing the rerun window Currently the panel has 3 lines that are connected to the "rerun flow

They will be replaced by Rerun flow line

Only if R is typed, the 3 lines will appearForward flow (Y/N)

Backward flow (Y/N)

View jobs in Flow (Y/N)

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Flow Re-Run enhanced confirmation

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Flow Re-Run enhanced confirmation

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Flow Re-Run enhanced confirmation

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