What’s new in Control-M 9.0.18
From now on (v9.0.18), Control-M will receive major updates yearly.
Along with this release the following new/enhancements are released.
- In-Place Upgrade – Less downtime on upgrading Control-M/Enterprise Manger (EM) and Control-M/Server
- Control-M 9.0.18 now supports and compatible with version 9 clients. Some new features introduced in v9.0.18 may not work. By disabling Client Compatibility mode, it is no longer prompt the client not compatible error.
- Control-M/Server 9.0.18 can now support v9 Enterprise Manager (EM).
- Control-M/Enterprise Manager (EM) 9.0.18 can now support lower version Control-M/Servers.
- From Control-M Welcome page, client upgrades can be triggered.
- Client Deploy feature allows installation/upgrade of clients
- Client Deploy feature allows directly installing latest client, instead of installing GA version and applying fix packs.
- Application Packs helps to deploy plugins fast and easy.
- Application Packs can be deployed on multiple agents
- SMART folder behaviour is now like cyclic job and all the jobs in the SMART folder are treated as a single entity
- Now rerunning the folder, all jobs in that folder will rerun and the dependencies will be maintained
- End Folder attribute helps to mark completion point when a folder contains more than one logical end. Upon marking End Folder, the status of the folder will change to Complete and no other jobs in that folder will run.
- Simulate variable (job submission variables, system variables, user-defined variables, global variables and pool variables) resolved before or during job submission
- New web-based Control-M Reporting feature replaces existing Reporting facility.
- BIRT engine replaces SAP Crystal Reports engine to generate up-to date reports.
- No Need client to generate reports
- Centralized Report – All reports outputs are on the server.
- Report Preview option to view sample without running the report.
- Older Control-M version jobs needs to be migrated to use the Control-M Reporting feature.
- In Monitoring domain, enable or disable Command-Line and Node ID/Group fields for non-admin users.
- In Monitoring Domain, now users can save recent Viewpoints – Save all recent Viewpoints or Save last Viewpoint
- Two (2) New BIM alerts are added
- Service is OK – service completed successfully
- Service late past deadline – service exceeds deadline
- New HTML5 Control-M Workload Change Manager (WCM) web interface.
- Control-M Workload Change Manager (WCM) and Control-M Self-Service (SLS) web interfaces are merged into single interface with three (3) domains.
- Planning – Define and Edit jobs and its properties
- Monitoring – Monitor job status, errors and perform job actions.
- Managed File Transfer (MFT) – Search for files transferred and control MFT job properties
- Control-M now supports, Oracle, MSSQL, external PostgreSQL and Amazon Web Services Remote Database Support (RDS) for Postgres
- Control-M can be installed on Amazon Linux
- Control-M Help is now hosted at BMC Documentation portal