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6.3.04 Diagnostic centered maintenance version

Reduce the issue handling cycle to a single iteration of retrieving

information from the customer
Minimize tickets handling time to minimum Identify the root cause of a problem without the need to reproduce the problem

Automate housekeeping activities and recovery from internal

product failures

Supervise Install activities Analyze & optimize the

production environment

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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=YES ALLOC=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

Can be managed through HC or through CONTROL-M Monitor 4 checks are supported now
Jobs active too long inside a Monitor task

Jobs not submitted for over nnn days

AJF full Parameters were updated with out NEWPARM command issued

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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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Flow Re-Run enhanced confirmation

Change the default of RESWPF3

Change the default of SACTRVF

Confirmation window after the selecting jobs and issuing RUN
command. 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 appear
Forward flow (Y/N) Backward flow (Y/N) View jobs in Flow (Y/N)

RUN command must be issued LIST will be the shown

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Questions?

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