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BMW is My Car… CONTROL-M is My Engine!

BMW is My Car… CONTROL-M is My Engine!. Robert Stinnett CARFAX, Inc. About CARFAX. Founded in 1986, CARFAX was the pioneer, and is now the leading provider of, Vehicle History Reports Two data centers in Columbia, Missouri Administrative offices in Centerville, Virginia

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BMW is My Car… CONTROL-M is My Engine!

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  1. BMW is My Car…CONTROL-M is My Engine! Robert Stinnett CARFAX, Inc.

  2. About CARFAX • Founded in 1986, CARFAX was the pioneer, and is now the leading provider of, Vehicle History Reports • Two data centers in Columbia, Missouri • Administrative offices in Centerville, Virginia • Run a combination of OpenVMS, Windows and Linux • Have been a CONTROL-M customer since 2003 © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  3. Agenda • Talk about the changing face of scheduling • Look at the movement towards event-based scheduling and away from time-based scheduling. • Talk about different ways of utilizing and accessing CONTROL-M • API • Web Services / Java • Command Line Utilities • Show some demonstrations © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  4. In The Beginning, There Was the Edsel… • Batch Scheduling Is Boring! • It’s necessary for the business, but it’s like driving a 1958 Edsel. • Many in IT hear the word “batch scheduler” and immediate think mainframe and non-interactive. • As a result, the power of the scheduler is never fully realized. © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  5. Let’s Overhaul It! • It’s Not “Batch Scheduling” Anymore, It’s “Business Processing”. • You’d be surprised how much changing the name can change attitudes. • It’s Not About After-Hours or “Offline” Processing, It’s About 24x7 Event-Driven Processing • Many jobs are not kicked off by the clock anymore, but rather by events. • A user clicks on a link on website • A customer order comes in. • A file arrives from a data provider. • A sequence of actions takes place in the business. • We Have A Powerful Engine with CONTROL-M, Let’s Use It To Drive Our Business! • Harness the power of one of your most powerful IT assets! • Integration is the key to success. © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  6. First, Some Basics • What is an API? • Application Programming Interface • Let’s you interface other applications with the one you are using either programmatically or through special methods, such as web services. • It’s A Window Into Your Application • Years ago most programs were highly proprietary and closed. The classic “nothing talks to nothing” problem IT faced. • How do you give people access to your program without giving away the code? Through an API! • Today, almost every major program on the market has an API making it easy to integrate other products with it. • API’s are documented, supported aways to let you use the program often beyond the standard interface. © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  7. Think About This… • Google, eBay, Yahoo, Amazon • Some of the largest API’s on the web. • Allows programmers, web designers, even other companies to harness the ENGINES of these companies to produce their own “cars” (software). • It’s Web 2.0 Meets CONTROL-M • Interface with your help desk, ticketing system, etc. • Set conditions based on external data from other applications or even websites • Design around your IT needs; don’t force IT to adapt to what comes out of the box. © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  8. How Does CONTROL-M Support This? • Enterprise Manager • Provides a set of Java classes that let you talk to CONTROL-M/EM Server components. • Comes with the product for free! • BMC CONTROL-M Business Process Integration Suite • Expands upon what you can do by adding additional functionality. • Opens up jobs in CONTROL-M to interface with other processes via: • Java (J2EE) • Message Oriented Middleware • Web Services • Two-way street; interactive communications. • Command Line Utilities © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  9. Have You Ever Thought About This… • Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Open/Close Tickets In Your Help Desk System Automatically When CONTROL-M Jobs Fail? • Wouldn’t You Like to Expand CONTROL-M To Make It More Dynamic? • Let your business events control CONTROL-M. • Open CONTROL-M up to other departments. • <GASP> Give end-users “control” over certain processes. • Maybe You Want to Make Your Life Simpler • Better way to acknowledge alarms. • Easier way to create jobs. • Mobile access to CONTROL-M. © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  10. You Can Do It, Here’s How! • Robert’s 3 Rules: • Don’t be afraid of change. • You might be surprised at what you get! • Don’t be afraid to ask for help. • Control-X user group and Devcon are good sources of information • API calls are well documented in manuals from BMC. • Think big, start small. • Take the ideas we are about to see and set them up in your own test environment to play with them and discover how we did it. • Your first “hello,world” project: • Display a list of all the jobs current running on your server. • Now, let’s see this thing in action! © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  11. Example #1: On-Demand Job Ordering • In this example, we will show how we can interface CONTROL-M with a simple web application to let production control managers have “on demand” reporting. • Uses command line tools “hidden” to the user. • Simple PHP web page/script. • User has no knowledge or even a login to CONTROL-M. • Enough talk, let’s go! © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  12. Let’s Review What We Just Did • Used CONTROL-M command line utilities • Specifically, we used the ctmorder utility • Allowed users to generate on-demand reports without the user needing to get into CONTROL-M • Provided a “wrapper” for the command line utility through a PHP script © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  13. Other Possibilities… • Create a web page to launch user dailies. • Provide an interface for your systems group to check CONTROL-M Mirroring or Database Log/Data space • Give Change Management control over node groups for outages, etc. through a web interface. • Your idea here! © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  14. Example #2: Dynamically Creating Jobs • The Hot Rod Candy Company Wants to Kick Off A Job When Customers Upload Holiday Candy Orders To Their Web Interface • Customers Have an SLA of Receiving Order Confirmation Within 5 Minutes of Submission Of Order To Hot-Road Candy Company. • Good Example Of Business Process Scheduling – We Are Using CONTROL-M To Help Drive our Business Process (Orders). • Let’s Go! © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  15. Let’s Review What We Did… • Utilized CONTROL-M EM API (Standard Java Classes) • Built an XML file (SOAP Request) to push through the Java class. • Performed TWO-WAY Communications • CUSTOMERS were notified of order confirmation through e-mail. • Business Process “ORDERS” was kicked off for each customer. • File was passed through to the order process. • And, guess what, this all happened automatically! • Added a new way to get information to CONTROL-M • Utilized a custom webpage we designed to push files and other data to CONTROL-M to build our jobs. © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  16. But Wait! • The JAVA API for the EM is useful, but it is not very user friendly nor is it easy to use except for Java programmers. • Wouldn’t it be nice to use web services? • Simple HTTP calls • Widely supported in many applications • Business Process Integration Suite • An optional add-in product for CONTROL-M © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  17. Example #3: Letting the Customers Peek Inside • In this example, we are going to give our customers “control” over their jobs. • We are going to setup a special interface for them into CONTROL-M • We’re also going to setup a way for them to see historical information about their jobs. • Let’s go! © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  18. Let’s Review… • Customers were able to: • Confirm their jobs • See the status of their jobs • “Demand up” their jobs. • Provided a way for customers to have access, without opening up all of CONTROL-M. • We made sure customers could only do what we wanted them to do. • Utilized Web Services Interface of Business Process Integration Suite © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  19. So, What We Have Learned Today… • The world of batch scheduling is changing. Where I work I prefer to use the term “business processing”. • We are interfacing with other areas of the busines and IT to give our companies a complete view of their business processes. • We saw how CONTROL-M is event driven. • We looked into how we can expand CONTROL-M out to make it the engine that drives other applications and interfaces. © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  20. Before You Zoom Off! • Download all the examples you saw here today with source code! • http://www.robertstinnett.com • Look for the “Userworld 2007 Downloads” link! • Need help? Let me know! • robert@robertstinnett.com • More Resources • Control-X Group on Yahoo • http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/control-x/ • BMC Devcon • http://devcon.bmc.com © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

  21. Thank You! • Questions? © Copyright June 9, 2014 BMC Software, Inc.

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