[SOLVED] Control-M

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July 03, 2006, 11:45 AM

Tim Stahl

We are attempting to determine the feasibility of this at our company. Did you end up running jobs in Control-M?

July 03, 2006, 02:22 PM

Prarie

oh...afer long research....and a lot of pain.
check out this documentation on DSTRUN command
http://documentation.informationbuilders.com/masterinde...capiweb8.htm#1034899

What you basically have to do is set it up in a .bat file for Control-m to execute. The example below is the .bat file retrun has the fex described in the documentation that lists varous dependencies... most important the schedule-id.

d:
cd d:\ibi\apps\sys_control_m
D:\ibi\srv53\wfs\bin\edastart -f edastart_-f_retrun

Good Luck.

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July 07, 2006, 09:22 AM

Tim Stahl

Thanks! We will take a look at this. The current work around was going to involve having Control-M launch a .bat file which in turn would launch an HTML page that would call a .fex.

July 07, 2006, 11:32 AM

Prarie

This way is good cause you get to keep using ReportCaster.

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July 07, 2006, 04:36 PM

dhagen

If what I read about Control-M is true, then the scheduler can consume a web service, or launch a J2EE application. That being said, you can use RC Webservices to have control-m run a schedule. Or, use the RC Java API and build the required classes to allow control-M to directly execute the schedule.

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July 10, 2006, 08:45 AM

Tim Stahl

That is good to know. I doubt we will be able to get them to use webservices initially, but that would ultimately be the way to go.

October 29, 2014, 12:58 PM

j.gross

Anyone have any more recent experience with letting control-m control RC jobs?

Update:

DSTRUN() does not support Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), so it cannot communicate with an "https://" website. I did not find that explicitly stated in the documentation (as a reason for labelling it "Legacy"); that should be made clearer.

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November 03, 2014, 03:49 PM

MattC

We did earlier this year, but your probably not going to like my response.

We implemented the RESTful license to allow WF objects to be called. Since our version of Control-M doesn't support these types of calls, we build a little JAVA app that makes the REST calls which calls the RC jobs.

So Control-M executes a batch file which calls the JAVA program which makes the REST calls to RC.

May be ugly, but it has saved a lot of support time since some of our RC jobs are data dependent.

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