Release Notes

Control-M/Enterprise Manager
Version: 7.0.00
September 30, 2010
Tracking 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:
Whats new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Whats changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Corrected problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Open issues and known problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Control-M/EM compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Product distribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Support for Control-M/EM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Whats new

Whats new
The 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).

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Annotation

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.

Control-M/Enterprise Manager

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 ControlM/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 ControlM 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.

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Whats changed

Table 1

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

Tracking #

Description

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:

WECS006979

Description - 4000
System Affinity - 5

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.

WMPM006402 You can now bypass a job's pre-submission and/or post-processing criteria.
WMPM006503 For example, you can skip a job or run it immediately without modifying
the job's definitions.
WECS006532
WMPM006674
WMPM006730
WMPM006731
WMPM006749
WECS006741

Whats changed
The 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

Control-M/Enterprise Manager

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 ControlM/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)

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Corrected problems

Table 2

Terminology changes in the Job Editing Form for version 7.0.00

Previous versions

Control-M version 7.0.00

N/A

Sub-table

Tag

Rule-Based Calendar

Corrected problems
Table 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.
Table 3

Control-M/EM corrected problems

Tracking #

Description

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 reports filters definitions
WECS006482

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

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Open issues and known problems

Open issues and known problems

Table 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\CurrentVe
rsion\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.

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Control-M/EM compatibility

Control-M/EM compatibility
Control-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, see
http://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.

Control-M/Enterprise Manager

Control-M/EM server compatibility with Windows

Table 5

Control-M/EM client compatibility with Windows

Operating system

Bits

Windows XP Professional

Windows Vista Enterprise Edition

Hardware
32
64

x86 compatible processors

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 2003 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
Edition

64

x86_64 compatible processors

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

Edition

Control-M/EM server compatibility with Windows

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

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

Windows Server 2008 R2 64

Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2008 R2
Standard Edition

10

Hardware
x86_64
compatible
processors

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Database servers and clients

Oracle 10 or Oracle 11 server

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2008

A BMC-supplied PostgreSQL 8.3.7 server and client

Control-M/EM server compatibility with UNIX/Linux

Table 6

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

Operating system

Bits

Hardware

Windows Server 2008

Enterprise Edition

64

x86
compatible
processors

Windows Server 2008

Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003
Enterprise Edition

Database servers and clients

Oracle 10 or Oracle 11 server

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2008

A BMC-supplied PostgreSQL 8.3.7 server and client

Oracle 10 or Oracle 11 server

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2008

A BMC-supplied PostgreSQL 8.3.7 server and client

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 (client: 15),

using the ISO1 character set

Windows Server 2003

Standard Edition
Windows Server 2008
Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2008
Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003
Enterprise Edition

x86
compatible
processors
32

Windows Server 2003

Standard Edition

Control-M/EM server compatibility with UNIX/Linux

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

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

Operating
system
AIX

Version

HP-UX

SolarisTM

Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux Server
SUSE LINUX
Enterprise
Server

Bits

6 (Update 2)
5.3 (Update 64
9)

Power compatible
processors

11.31
(Update 3)
11.23
64
(B.11.23.080
6)

Itanium processors

10 (Update
7)
64
9 (Update 9)

SPARC processors

5 (Update 1)
32

Hardware

11
10

32

x86 compatible
processors

Database servers and clients

Oracle 10 or Oracle 11 server

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15

(client: 15), using the ISO1 character set

A BMC-supplied PostgreSQL 8.3.7

server and client

Oracle 10 or Oracle 11 server

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)

x86 compatible
processors

Control-M/Enterprise Manager

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Table 7

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

Operating
system
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux Server
SUSE LINUX
Enterprise
Server
Oracle
Enterprise
Linux Server

Version

Bits

5 (Update 1)

11
10 (SP2)

x86_64 compatible
processors

64

Database servers and clients

x86_64 compatible
processors

64

Hardware

32
64

Oracle 10 or Oracle 11 server

A BMC-supplied PostgreSQL 8.3.7

server and client (32-bit binaries)

x86, x86_64
compatible
processors

Control-M/EM compatibility with Control-M components

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

Control-M/EM compatibility withControl-M components

Control-M
Control-M/Server

Version

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

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7.0.00
6.4.01
6.3.01
6.2.01

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7.0.xx
6.3.xx
6.2.xx

Control-M/EM compatibility with third party software

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.

Control-M/EM compatibility with third party software

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

Control-M/EM compatibility with third party software

Third party software

Internet Explorer

Version

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 integration with BMC products

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

Control-M/Enterprise Manager

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Control-M/EM language compatibility

Table 10

Control-M/EM integration with BMC products

Third party software

Version

BMC Remedy

BMC Service Impact Manager

BMC Atrium CMDB

7.3
7.1

2.0

Control-M/EM language compatibility

Table 11 lists languages that are compatible with Control-M/EM.
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 freetext fields and parameters.

Basic ASCII

US English

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

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Obtaining installation files via EPD on page 15

Obtaining installation files via the BMC Sales Representative on page 15

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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.

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

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Support for Control-M/EM

Support for Control-M/EM

The 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.

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