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Control-M/Enterprise ManagerVersion: 7.0.00September 30, 2010Tracking numbers: LPH3S.7.0.00

BMC Software is releasing version 7.0.00 of the Control-M/Enterprise Manager (EM) product. These release notes provide information about the enhancements and resolved problems in this release. The information in this document supplements and supersedes information in the Control-M/EM manuals.

Up-to-date, essential installation and service information that becomes available after this product is released will be placed under solution SLN000015127506 in the Knowledge Base on the Customer Support website, located at http://www.bmc.com/support. Before installation, BMC recommends that you check the website for any up-to-date information and also to determine whether recent patches are available for this product.

The following topics are discussed:

What’s new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2What’s changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Corrected problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Open issues and known problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Control-M/EM compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Product distribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Migration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Support for Control-M/EM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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What’s new

2 Release Notes September 30, 2010

What’s newThe following topics describe new features and enhancements that are now available in Control-M/EM version 7.0.00:

■ “Windows 64-bit platform support” on page 2■ “Workload Management” on page 2■ “Version Manager” on page 2■ “Annotation” on page 3■ “Reporting Facility” on page 3■ “Active Directory/LDAP group level authentication” on page 3■ “Additional enhancements” on page 3

Windows 64-bit platform support

Control-M/Enterprise Manager components now fully support 64-bit Windows platforms.

Workload Management

You can define a set of rules on a group of jobs with the new Workload Management. feature that enables you to do the following:

■ Limit the resources available to the group of jobs■ Limit the number of jobs within the group that are concurrently running■ Route specific jobs within the group to a specific node or node group

This feature improves your ability to control, manage, and balance the use of resources in the active environment (CAR00038714).

Version Manager

You can now roll back multiple job definitions to a specific point in time with a single action from the Version Manager in Control-M/Desktop (CAR00040413).

Annotation

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Annotation

Specific user actions can now require users to write a free text annotation, describing the reason for the action, before the action is performed.

System administrators can define which actions require user annotation from the Control-M Configuration Manager.

User annotations are included with the Audit Report from the Reporting Facility (CAR00038758).

Reporting Facility

For this version, the Reporting Facility provides the user with new features and functionality that make reporting easier than ever:

■ The GUI interface has a completely enhanced look and feel (CAR00041630).

■ The Reporting Facility is available to all end users without the need to install a database client on Control-M/EM client computers.

■ You can summarize report data by report fields. This allows you to group report results by any of the statistical functions such as value counts, averages, maximum, and minimum values. A graph of the results can also be displayed as part of the report. (CAR00033237) and (WECS006981)

■ Job definition fields with multiple values can be included in a report. For example, Conditions and Quantitative Resources fields. (WECS006913)

Active Directory/LDAP group level authentication

LDAP or Active Directory (AD) users can now log into Control-M/EM without the need to be defined individually in Control-M/EM, which eliminates the need to add, delete, or modify users in both LDAP/AD and Control-M/EM (CAR00038537).

Additional enhancements

Table 1 describes additional enhancements that are now available in Control-M/EM version 7.0.00.

Additional enhancements


Table 1 Control-M/EM enhancements (part 1 of 2)

Tracking # Description

CAR00033213 You can now keep tables locked after they have been written to Control-M/EM, to prevent another user from overwriting it.

CAR00033218 For individual Control-M for z/OS jobs, you can now specify whether to attach sysouts to e-mailed shout messages. Previously, this could only be globally applied.

CAR00033221 You can now define Control-M for z/OS cyclic jobs to run at specific times or to rerun with various offsets.

CAR00033223 Values which are longer than the various field lengths of the job editing form can now be viewed in their entirety, without using the scroll option, by opening a text box that displays the complete value.

CAR00033271 Control-M Server system parameters can now be configured from the Control-M Configuration Manager.

CAR00033274 You can now manage Control-M Shout destination tables from the Control-M Configuration Manager.

CAR00034004 The maximum length of the Control-M/EM user ID is now 64 characters. The DBO user ID is 30 characters.

CAR00037612 You can now use DBUtils to perform common database operations and generate reports for both Control-M/EM and Control-M/Server on Oracle and MSSQL databases.

CAR00037663 You can now enable or disable SSL communication mode for specific agents from the Control-M Configuration Manager. For example, you can set Control-M/Server to communicate in SSL mode with an agent running in a DMZ environment.

CAR00038357 You can generate a Managed Servers report from the Reporting Facility. The report provides information regarding hardware configuration and operating systems on all servers that contain Control-M components or are running jobs.

CAR00038358 Performance related measurements are now kept for Control-M/EM and related components. This information can be collected using the Diagnostics Data Collection option in the Control-M Configuration Manager.

CAR00038359 You can now collect diagnostic data for all Control-M components from the Control-M Configuration Manager.

CAR00038997 A nested hierarchy of job containers in the form of tables and sub-tables can now be defined and monitored. Sub-tables can inherit scheduling criteria from its parent table.

CAR00039761 The View Sysout window can now open automatically when a job has only one Sysout in the Sysout List window.

CAR00039837 You can now install Control-M/EM on UNIX with a GUI, or with CLI when XServer is not available.

CAR00039870 You can now prepare Control-M/EM Web Launch packages from the Control-M Configuration Manger.

CAR00040012 XML formats are now the default when you save a Control-M/EM Desktop environment.

What’s changed


What’s changedThe following changes have been made in Control-M/EM version 7.0.00:

■ “PostgreSQL is now the only database server supplied by BMC Software” on page 6

■ “"BMC-supplied" replaces "Dedicated"” on page 6

CAR00041557 You can now use Control-M/CM for PeopleSoft job attributes for all Control-M/EM related interfaces such as, Find and Update, Viewpoint, and Filter.

WCTM003420 The following information now appears in Control-M/EM for Control-M for z/OS jobs:

■ Highest Step Return Code■ Highest Program Step■ Highest Procedure Step ■ Failure Step Return Code■ Failure Program Step■ Failure Procedure Step

WECS005983 You can now access job documentation located on the network, by specifying a URL in the job Documentation field. (For distributed system jobs only.)

WECS006161 You can now search for a string in a job's sysout, log, documentation, or statistics window with the Find option in the Control-M/EM GUI.

WECS006602 You can now generate SSL certificates for all Control-M components from the Control-M Configuration Manager.

WECS006958 The maximum length of the Description and System Affinity job attribute fields for Control-M for z/OS jobs have been extended to the following:

■ Description - 4000■ System Affinity - 5

WECS006979 You can now configure the urgency level of alerts automatically issued for jobs that end NOTOK with the AlertOnAbendUrgency parameter from the Control-M Configuration Manager.

WMPM006402WMPM006503WECS006532WMPM006674WMPM006730WMPM006731WMPM006749WECS006741

You can now bypass a job's pre-submission and/or post-processing criteria. For example, you can skip a job or run it immediately without modifying the job's definitions.

Table 1 Control-M/EM enhancements (part 2 of 2)


PostgreSQL is now the only database server supplied by BMC Software


■ “Terminology changes” on page 6

PostgreSQL is now the only database server supplied by BMC Software

Database servers supported in past versions are also supported for version 7.0.00. PostgreSQL is supplied by BMC Software. All other supported database servers will be supplied by the customer.

For more information on supported database servers, see “Control-M/EM server compatibility with Windows” on page 10 and “Control-M/EM server compatibility with UNIX/Linux” on page 11.

"BMC-supplied" replaces "Dedicated"

The terms Dedicated and Existing are no longer used to describe supported database servers.

For version 7.0.00, BMC-supplied replaces Dedicated and applies solely to PostgreSQL. The term BMC-supplied emphasizes that only the PostgreSQL database server supplied by BMC Software can be used with Control-M/EM and Control-M/Server.

All other supported database servers and clients, including clients installed by BMC Software, are fully native versions of their respective brands, and as such, a special term for them (referred to as Existing in previous versions) is no longer required.

Terminology changes

Table 2 describes Control-M terminology changes in the Job Editing Form for version 7.0.00.

Table 2 Terminology changes in the Job Editing Form for version 7.0.00

Previous versions Control-M version 7.0.00

Scheduling Table Table

Scheduling Group SMART Table (Scheduling Management And Rich Tasks)

Scheduling Table Manager Table Manager

GEF (Group Editing Form) TEF (Table Editing Form)

Corrected problems


Corrected problemsTable 3 describes the problems that were reported in earlier releases of Control-M/EM and have been corrected. The list of corrected problems is also available under solution SLN000015127507 in the Knowledge Base.

N/A Sub-table

Tag Rule-Based Calendar

Table 3 Control-M/EM corrected problems


CAR00039765 Jobs that run on remote hosts remain in an execute state when the connection to the Control-M/Agent is lost.

CAR00040780 The Control-M/GUI Server might crash when you try to open large SYSOUTS.

CAR00041333 The following error message appears when you attempt to refresh a saved report in the Reporting Facility:

Logon failed

CAR00041485 A user is not able to log in to Control-M/EM client components, after the deployment of a Control-M/EM Web Launch package when the ssl_ns.conf and ssl_client_server.conf files were modified manually, and therefore not packaged correctly.

CAR00041569 Control-M/EM client applications cannot be run by standard users when User Account Control is activated on Windows 7 and Vista.

CAR00041695 The Show History option in Control-M/Desktop might open with an empty list and not display either the past or current version of a job.

CAR00041697 Control-M/EM GUI server might crash if the LDAP Server connection is lost while multiple users are attempting to log in simultaneously.

CAR00041731 Control-M/Reporting Facility fails to generate a BIM SLA Analysis report that is set with filter attributes and the following message appears:

Failed to set report’s filters definitions

WECS006482 You cannot filter by the table attribute in the active environment for Viewpoints, Collections, and list filters.

Table 2 Terminology changes in the Job Editing Form for version 7.0.00

Previous versions Control-M version 7.0.00

Open issues and known problems


Open issues and known problemsTable 4 describes Control-M/EM issues that remain open in this release.

Table 4 Open issues and known problems

Tracking # Issue

CAR00035944 Web Launch deployment might fail if a user with administrative privileges, and a user without administrative privileges share the same computer for deploying instances of the same package.

CAR00036154 A non-administrator using Web Launch might receive the following error when trying to download the Control-M/EM Package application:

Cannot start the application. Contact the application vendor for assistance.

Clicking Details displays the following line in the log to explain the problem:

+ Exception occurred during store operation. + Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)

Workaround:

See the SLN000015048436 solution in the Knowledge Base.

CAR00038363 When attempting to deploy Control-M/EM Web Launch from cluster computer on which after an Control-M/EM Package is installed, the following error message is displayed:

No Package is installed.

The workaround for this issue can be seen in solution number SLN000015063556 in the Knowledge Base.

CAR00039250 Web Launch cannot be deployed after it has been uninstalled.

Workaround

1. Clean the Web Launch following registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\<GUID of relevant Web Launch Instance>

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\BMC Software\CONTROL-M\CONTROL-M/Enterprise Manager\6.4.X\<Web Launch instance name>

2. Reinstall Web Launch.

Control-M/EM compatibility


Control-M/EM compatibilityControl-M/EM can be installed on Windows and/or UNIX computers and works together with other products in the Control-M scheduling solution (for example, Control-M/Server and Control-M/Agent).

The following lists the operating systems and other pre-installation requirements for Control-M/EM:

■ “Control-M/EM client compatibility with Windows” on page 9■ “Control-M/EM server compatibility with Windows” on page 10■ “Control-M/EM server compatibility with UNIX/Linux” on page 11■ “Control-M/EM compatibility with Control-M components” on page 12■ “Control-M/EM compatibility with third party software” on page 13■ “Control-M/EM integration with BMC products” on page 13■ “Control-M/EM language compatibility” on page 14

Some compatibility requirements might have changed since Control-M/EM version 7.0.00 was released. For the most current compatibility information, seehttp://webapps.bmc.com/paczos/faces/pac/index.jsp.

Control-M/EM client compatibility with Windows

Table 5 lists the Windows operating systems that are compatible with Control-M/EM client.

NOTE When you use a non-BMC-provided database client, prior to installation of Control-M/Enterprise Manager client, ensure that the appropriate OLE-DB driver is installed on the client computer with the database client software as described in Table 6.

NOTE For all Windows operating systems with 64 bit, BMC Batch Discovery and BMC Batch Impact Manager cannot send events to Service Impact Manager.

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Control-M/EM server compatibility with Windows


Control-M/EM server compatibility with Windows

Table 6 lists the Windows operating systems that are compatible with Control-M/EM server.

Table 5 Control-M/EM client compatibility with Windows

Operating system Bits Hardware

Windows XP Professional ■ 32■ 64

x86 compatible processors

Windows Vista Enterprise Edition

Windows Vista Business Edition

Windows Vista Ultimate Edition

Windows 7 Enterprise Edition

Windows 7 Business Edition

Windows 7 Professional Edition

Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition



Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition

64 x86_64 compatible processors

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition

NOTE For all Windows operating systems with 64 bit, BMC Batch Discovery and BMC Batch Impact Manager cannot send events to Service Impact Manager.

Table 6 Control-M/EM server compatibility with Windows (part 1 of 2)

Operating system Bits Hardware Database servers and clients

Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition

64 x86_64 compatible processors

■ Oracle 10 or Oracle 11 server

■ Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2008

■ A BMC-supplied PostgreSQL 8.3.7 server and client

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition

Control-M/EM server compatibility with UNIX/Linux


Control-M/EM server compatibility with UNIX/Linux

Table 7 lists the UNIX/Linux operating systems that are compatible with Control-M/EM server.


64 x86 compatible processors








32





■ Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 (client: 15), using the ISO1 character set




Table 7 Control-M/EM server compatibility with UNIX/Linux (part 1 of 2)

Operating system Version Bits Hardware Database servers and clients

AIX® ■ 6 (Update 2)■ 5.3 (Update

9)64

Power compatible processors


■ Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 (client: 15), using the ISO1 character set


HP-UX ■ 11.31 (Update 3)

■ 11.23 (B.11.23.0806)

64

Itanium processors

SolarisTM■ 10 (Update

7)■ 9 (Update 9)

64SPARC processors

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

5 (Update 1)32



■ A Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 (client: 15), using the ISO1 character set

■ A BMC-supplied PostgreSQL 8.3.7 server and client (32-bit binaries)

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server

■ 11■ 10

32


Table 6 Control-M/EM server compatibility with Windows (part 2 of 2)

Operating system Bits Hardware Database servers and clients

Control-M/EM compatibility with Control-M components


Control-M/EM compatibility with Control-M components

Table 8 lists the Control-M components that are compatible with Control-M/EM.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

5 (Update 1)64

x86_64 compatible processors


■ A BMC-supplied PostgreSQL 8.3.7 server and client (32-bit binaries)SUSE LINUX

Enterprise Server

■ 11■ 10 (SP2) 64

x86_64 compatible processors

Oracle Enterprise Linux Server

5■ 32■ 64

x86, x86_64 compatible processors

Table 8 Control-M/EM compatibility withControl-M components

Control-M Version

Control-M/Server ■ 7.0.00■ 6.4.01■ 6.3.01■ 6.2.01

Control-M/Agent See the Control-M/Server release notes for supported Control-M/Agents.

BMC Batch Discovery 7.0.00

BMC Batch Impact Manager 7.0.00

Control-M/Forecast 7.0.00

Control-M for z/OS ■ 7.0.xx■ 6.3.xx■ 6.2.xx

Table 7 Control-M/EM server compatibility with UNIX/Linux (part 2 of 2)

Operating system Version Bits Hardware Database servers and clients

Control-M/EM compatibility with third party software


Control-M/EM compatibility with third party software

Table 9 lists third party software that is compatible with Control-M/EM.

Control-M/EM integration with BMC products

Table 10 lists BMC products that can integrate with Control-M/EM.

NOTE Control-M/EM version 7.0.00 is compatible with all supported versions of control modules and options for application-specific products that were available before this release.

The following control module forms, application fields, and Control-M Configuration Manager plug-ins are automatically installed when you install Control-M/EM 7.0.00:

■ Control-M/CM for AFT version 6.4.01■ Control-M/CM for SAP version 6.3.01.200■ Control-M for Databases version 6.4.01■ Control-M/CM for OEBS version 6.4.01■ Control-M Business Process Integration Suite version 6.3.02.100■ Control-M/CM for PeopleSoft version 6.1.02.300 (forms and application fields only)

If you want to install a later version of a specific control module, you need to install it separately.

Table 9 Control-M/EM compatibility with third party software

Third party software Version

Internet Explorer ■ 8■ 7

Mozilla Firefox 3.x

Google Chrome 2.x

Web server Any web server that supports Java Servlet API 1.2.

NOTE For WEB Launch, use only Internet Explorer 7 or 8.

Control-M/EM language compatibility


Control-M/EM language compatibility

Table 11 lists languages that are compatible with Control-M/EM.

Product distributionThe following procedures describe how to obtain the installation files for Control-M/EM version 7.0.00 via EPD or the BMC Sales Representative:

■ “Obtaining installation files via EPD” on page 15■ “Obtaining installation files via the BMC Sales Representative” on page 15

Table 10 Control-M/EM integration with BMC products

Third party software Version

BMC Remedy 7

BMC Service Impact Manager ■ 7.3■ 7.1

BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0

Table 11 Control-M/EM language compatibility

Language Level of support

East Asian (CJK) The following languages are now supported:

■ Traditional Chinese■ Simplified Chinese■ Japanese■ Korean

Note: This support is not applicable to either BMC Batch Impact Manager 7.0.00 or Control-M/Forecast 7.0.00.

Western European (Latin-1 character set)

Special Western European characters used in English, Spanish, German, and French can be specified in most free-text fields and parameters.

Basic ASCII US English

Obtaining installation files via EPD


Obtaining installation files via EPD

This procedure describes how to obtain the Control-M/EM version 7.0.00 installation files via EPD.

To obtain installation files via EPD:

1 Click https://webapps.bmc.com/epd/ and follow the instructions on the EPD site until you reach the Download Files page.

2 Click How to install BMC components using files downloaded from product download.

3 Follow the provided instructions.

Obtaining installation files via the BMC Sales Representative

This procedure describes how to obtain the Control-M/EM version 7.0.00 installation files via the BMC Sales Representative.

To obtain installation files via the BMC Sales Representative:

To obtain a product DVD, contact your BMC Sales Representative.

The list of representatives are available at http://www.bmc.com/corporate/contacts-locations/.

The DVD for this version is associated with tracking number LPH3S.7.0.00. Refer to this number when ordering or requesting maintenance for this product.

MigrationFor information about Migration, see the Control-M Migration Guide located on the Control-M Documentation CD.

https://webapps.bmc.com/epd/

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Support for Control-M/EM


Support for Control-M/EMThe following provides information about:

■ “Levels of support” on page 16■ “Related documents” on page 16■ “Customer support” on page 17

Levels of support

For information about the latest support policies, see the Customer Support website at http://www.bmc.com/support.

Related documents

The following documents support Control-M/EM:

■ Control-M Administrator Guide■ Control-M Installation Guide■ Control-M User Guide■ Control-M Concepts Guide■ Control-M Parameter Guide■ Control-M Messages Manual■ Control-M/Enterprise Manager API Developer Guide■ Control-M Business Service Management Solution User Guide■ Control-M Language Customization Guide■ Control-M Utility Guide■ Control-M Migration Guide ■ Control-M SSL Guide

NOTE The documentation for version 7.0.00 of Control-M/Enterprise Manager also describes features that will be available for the soon to be released version 7.0.00 of Control-M/Server for UNIX® and Microsoft Windows and version 7.0.00 of Control-M/Agent for UNIX® and Microsoft Windows.


Customer support


To view the latest BMC documents, including documents in other languages, see the Customer Support website at http://www.bmc.com/support. Notices, such as flashes, technical bulletins, and release notes, are available on the website. You can subscribe to proactive alerts to receive e-mail messages when notices are issued or updated. For more information about proactive alerts, see the Customer Support website.

Customer support

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