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VISUAL|job for Control-M

9.8.5

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2 VISUALjob for Control-M Release Notes

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Table of Contents_____________________________ 1 IN THIS RELEASE ........................................................................................ 5

1.1 ENHANCEMENTS IN VERSION 9.8.5 .......................................................... 5












1.13 ENHANCEMENTS IN VERSION 9.2.2 ........................................................ 10




1.17 CORRECTED PROBLEMS IN VERSION 9.8.5 ................................................. 13










1.27 CORRECTED PROBLEMS IN VERSION 9.5.X ................................................. 17







2 PREREQUISITES, COMPATIBILITY AND UPGRADE INSTRUCTION ................................. 21


1 In this Release VISUALjob for Control-M 9.8.x delivers important enhancements offering additional functionality and ease of use. VISUALjob for Control-M 9.8.x also contains fixes to known and reported issues. Details are listed in table below.

1.1 Enhancements in version 9.8.5

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n/a The ‘ApsDashboardVjMode for Control-M Administration’ tool , contains two new advanced functions : ‘Check Settings for selected OrderID(s)’ and ‘Show Event Log’.


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DESCRIPTION

n/a Pre-Installation Checklist now available in a separate document ‘VISUALjob for Control-M Pre-Installation Checklist.pdf’


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DESCRIPTION

00004335 Generating Critical Path Report even if the selected JobMember from the service is not existent in the definition database

n/a Dialog 'Search Path', adapted dialog layout and added additional information fields e.g. (DataCenter, Folder, Application, SubApplication)


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DESCRIPTION

00004000 Visual Job Critical Path - need ability to consider predecessors, even if previous ODATE. For this enhancement please be sure to install APSCTMAJF Version 3.2.0 (no Extended Condition Analysis)

00002724 Display the comment of the group entity in the collapsed group node , in case of group scheduling definitions.

00004218 Compatibility of this tools(Visual job/ADB) with Control-M Version 9.

00003682 Tree View structure: Change to Control-M Version 8 naming conventions.

00004252 Critical Path report : add an additional sort field 'Sequence' for the Critical Path list.

00004027 Critical Path report : change format for field CpuTime from 'Millisecond' to ''HH:MM:SS ms'.


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DESCRIPTION

00004105

New Option: Critical Path flowcharts to be displayed by APPLICATION, NOT TABLE. Please check section 5.5 of the Installation Guide for more details.

00004027

Add additional fields to the Critical Path report, e.g. Time from, Application, Sub-Application (Group), Folder (Schedule Table), CPU Consumption, Data Center Name,

00003775

Critical Path Report to include an "expand" option to show non-critical dependencies

00004090

Critical Path via ADB for Mainframe running long. Through WebView settings it is possible to ignore links from/to group entities/smart tables and therefore the Critical Path runs faster. Please check section 5.5 of the Installation Guide for more details.


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DESCRIPTION

00004148 Silent Installation for VISUALjob for Control-M


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00004096 APSCTMAJF utility collecting job structures which get loaded to the AJF after midnight, but for the previous ODATE : only one XML file will be created by the APSCTMAJF utility



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DESCRIPTION

n/a Optimized 'CriticalPath' analysis


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DESCRIPTION

n/a Enhanced 'ApsDashboardVjModeService', used for the integration between VISUALjob for Control-M and the APS Analytics Dashboard Critical Path On Demand report types.

00003925 Enhanced 'CriticalPath' analysis

n/a New utility ApsDashboardVjMode Administration : with that utility it is possible to set the Status for a desired OrderID to Request or Cancel in a VISUALjob statistical databases in a SQL Server format and to edit the config file for the ‘ApsDashboardVjModeService’



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DESCRIPTION

00003850 Enable generation of any job's Critical Path Report directly from Dashboard Tool

00003887 Performance issue during importing calendar data

n/a Export the displayed information into an Argument File ListView --> Export Argument file (.xml)

00003569 VISUALstatman for CTM SqlServer DB : Job statistics from multiple datacenters, running on different time zones, within one statistical database


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DESCRIPTION

00003829 Better performance for the function ‘CriticalPath’. See VISUALjob for Control-M User Guide, section 10.1.2.2 Updating a VISUALstatman for Control-M (Sql Server) DB


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DESCRIPTION

00003791 VjAdminCTM : Display ‘******’at EditBox ‘Password’ if the password has a value

00003683 VjAdminCTM : Not possible to change a password of a user


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DESCRIPTION

00003739 Performance improvements Critical path search

n/a Connection improvements for standard VjSqlU User to the SQL Server statistical database

00003804 Simplify the creation of Services through a cloning process


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DESCRIPTION

00003619 Critical Path Analysis for the Path Search (WebView) and Workload Analysis (GanttView). See VISUALjob for Control-M User Guide, section 19 and 22.1.

n/a Execution of “Services” in batch mode, including the above mentioned Critical Path Analysis. See VISUALjob for Control-M User Guide, section 22.1. This also allows the integration with the “Critical Path” report type of the APS Analytics Dashboard.

00003677 (9.1.3) Performance improvement through the usage of relative dates in the Path Search and Gantt View options

00003676 (9.1.3) Usage of ISO date format yyyy mm dd in the Path Search and Gantt View options


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DESCRIPTION

n/a Support of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 (in Windows 7 compatibility mode)

00003345 Enhanced Cross Reference reporting for Control-M Variables

00003345 Addition of the fields RerunMax, RerunMember, IntervalFrom and IntervalValue to the CrossReference and ListView reporting.



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DESCRIPTION

00003092 Support of Control-M 8

00003307 Introduction of “Services” We have added an automation component called “Services” to VISUALjob so you can now pre-define queries once and reuse them for generating flowcharts, critical path searches, GANTT Charts, workload simulations etc., to get quick workload analytics from Control-M – through VISUALjob. Quick access to predefined Services via a new button on the main VISUALjob window

Quick access to TreeView filters via new select / deselect buttons on the main VISUALjob window

00003307 Quick access to the search function via a new button on the main VISUALjob window

00003302 Quick access to CrossReferences via a new button on the main VISUALjob window

00003309 The menu has been restructured and the WebView, GanttView, ForecastView, ListView, StatisticView and LogView tabs are now in horizontal orientation.

00003308 Enhanced user right management User right “Create New Projects” has been replaced by “Create New Project and Services”. Users having the user right “Create New Project and Services” are allowed to define, administer and execute Services. Users having the user right “Create New Project and Services” are also allowed to maintain the individual condition filters (see under Options -> WebView -> Suppress Elements / Individual Conditions). Users having the user right “Create New Project and Services” are also allowed specify and maintain the reference to the statistical database (see under Options -> Global Statistic DB).

00003306 Credentials of the referenced statistical database are stored within the definition database (projects)


00003304 Support of Control-M for z/OS scheduling definitions in XML format

00003050 Enhanced cross reference settings are now automatically deployed in an release upgrade process, no manual actions are required.

00003305 Change of the default database extension from .mdb to .adb (APS embedded database). Note: Definition databases of previous VISUALjob for Control-M Versions are not compatible with version 9.0.0. Definition databases need to be recreated and repopulated with VISUALjob for Control-M 9.0.0. Please make sure to update all definition database references in batch parameter files from .mdb to .adb.

00003177 The misleading message “The chosen data is mixed…” while generating a GanttView has been eliminated.

00003162 Generation of Statistical Report in batch mode for SQL Server based statistical database

00003105 Return code handling for VISUALstatman SQL Server batch processes


1.17 Corrected Problems in version 9.8.5

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DESCRIPTION

00004660 Critical Path on Demand: Complete status is not set

00004663 Smart Folder Data as Group Scheduling information are not imported

00004672 Critical Path shows incomplete result if Folder name <> Sub-Application name


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DESCRIPTION

00004443 Critical Path Analysis with cyclic End Jobs is not supported. User now receives warning if a end job from type cyclic is specified.

00004456 Improvements in the average calculation (update of stored procedures, see chapter 10.1.2.6 Updating a VISUALstatman for Control-M (Sql Server) DB of the VISUALjob for Control-M User Guide) of the Statistical Database for jobs in status OK and NOTOK.

00004444 Critical Path on Demand execution continues, even if a previous request has caused a crash of the visualjob execution. The updated version 1.2.0 of the windows service "ApsDashboardVjModeService" continues with the next execution of a Critical Path on Demand report generation request after a few minutes, as specified in the field "MinutesTimerWatchDog" in the VjDashboardService.exe.config file.

00004333 Document update concerning the APSCTMDELTA utility, see chapter 2.9.2 VISUALjob for Control-M Delta utility for Control-M for DS - 2.9.2.2 Parameter of the VISUALjob for Control-M User Guide

00004445 Not getting expected results while running On Demand Critical path analysis for some specific jobs


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DESCRIPTION

n/a Bug Fix : Search Path for Predecessor and Successor always shows the message 'In the existing Data Base it was not possible to find a path!'


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DESCRIPTION

00004322 User Administration Close Project.

00004355 Failing to import xml files while DESCRIPTION contains special character.

00004353 Critical Path on Demand Report generation does not end.

00004335 APS Dashboard Testing - issue generating Critical Path Report.


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DESCRIPTION

00004335 APS Dashboard Testing - issue generating Critical Path Report.

00004329 Sequence in the Critical Path Report if Group Entities are present


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DESCRIPTION

00004320 For UNIX, no critical paths are available via Visual-Job. The problem occurs if the parameter LinkShowGSEntity does not exist in the Registry.

00004272 The Critical Path Job requested is NOT at the top of the report.

00004267 START TIME and END TIME of first Predecessor job in the Critical Path On Demand Report is NOT correct.

n/a Consider Validation Check only if the OK button is enabled.

00004263 Update chapter 13.2.1 at manual 'VISUALjob for Control-M User Guide.pdf'.

00004261 Visual Job List View Report Header is not aligned to ADB Critical Path On Demand Report.

00003961 Crash while browsing through the job edit form for specific jobs.


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DESCRIPTION

00004088 Jobs NOT FOUND unless the TREE View with all the jobs is listed by "Scheduling Table"

00004092 SQL Server statistical database : Wrong StartTime and EndTime while using Normalized Date Time during import. If you have experienced this problem, please reload your statistical data.


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DESCRIPTION

00004181 SQL Server statistical database. Timeout during creation of average tables.


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DESCRIPTION

00004122 Gap calculation for Critical Path

00004123 Critical Path for End Job incorrect

00004136 Anomaly in the critical path analysis


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DESCRIPTION

n/a CriticalPath : consider OR condition to ENTITY and parallel conditions (same predecessor for ENTITY and JobMember as an external condition)

00004083 CriticalPath : consider 'Dummy Jobs' if the Platform is NOT 'MVS' and add 1 minute delay for the 'DUMMY-End-Date-Time'

n/a CriticalPath : if the 'Dummy Job' Platform is NOT 'MVS' then generate a formatted zero value for the gap and consider 'Entity Jobs' if the Platform is NOT 'MVS' and add 1 minute delay for the 'ENTITY-Start-Date-Time'

00004096 APSCTMAJF utility collecting job structures which get loaded to the AJF after midnight, but for the previous ODATE : new internal XML import option

1.27 Corrected Problems in version 9.5.x

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DESCRIPTION

00003975 (9.5.1) First login decryption password : Disable MessageBox 'Created ApsCryptContainer ...' and write that message into the LogFile 'batchVISUALjobCTM.log'

00003993 (9.5.2) Critical Path: Unexpected job in the critical path report

00003969 (9.5.2) ListView Critical Path inaccuracy / gaps / rerun of jobs

00004004 (9.5.2) while running batch import disable MessageBox 'The CTM Version for the DataCenter is unknown ...'

00004006 (9.5.3) Critical Path On Demand - Exporting to CSV to be different columns

00004003 / 00004045 (9.5.4) while running batch mode close project for every user before compact database


00004010 (9.5.4) Critical path giving different results, and delete CSV file if exists

n/a (9.5.4) Statistic Report : changed text from radio button 'List All' to 'List TOP 1000' and adapted the SQL query

n/a (9.5.5) While running batch mode open TreeView always in 'ScheduleTable' mode and disable MessageBoxes

00004038 (9.5.5) APSCTMAJF - Implementation of updated version with significant performance and functional improvements

00004083 (9.5.5) CriticalPath : the start time and end time information from 'Dummy Jobs' are not precise. Compare end time from 'Dummy Jobs' differently as 'Normal Jobs' with her predecessors

n/a (9.5.6) CriticalPathListView : set additional information at column 'Info' if a 'DummyJob' is listed

00004081 (9.5.7) CriticalPath : if the start job at critical path is a 'Dummy Job' then calculate the new value for maximum EndTime


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DESCRIPTION

n/a Fixed issue if using JobNames with extensions like 'JobName.txt'


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n/a Fixed issue at Clone Service Dialog while selecting an ODATE


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DESCRIPTION

00003760 VISUALstatman for CTM SqlServer DB : The statistic data ZOS import function is corrected. Reduced number of NULL value for Start/EndTime

n/a delete variable while running service mode 'Search Reference Day'


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DESCRIPTION

00003157 (9.1.1) Batch import process problem for job definitions fixed while minimizing the number of log default entries

00003560 (9.1.2) Fixed DLL error problem while creating a GanttView in certain environments through enhanced .ini file handling.

00003555 (9.1.2) Fixed issue in the APSCTMDELTA utility

00003579 (9.1.3) Batch import of Control-M z/OS data does not end

00003176 (9.1.3) Fixed problem in the APSCTMAJF utility related to Smart Tables in Control-M 7


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DESCRIPTION

n/a



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00003160 Problem loading specific calendars

00003662 Every user, independent of the given user rights, should have the right to execute the Search Path function.

00003171 New IN- and OUT CONDITION date references

00003196 Previously incorrect representation in TreeView and WebView if Name of the Group Entity equals a Job Name

00003265 Jobs were previously not forecasted correctly if related to RBCs (Rule Based Calendars)

00003299 Information from OverLib not showing


2 Prerequisites, Compatibility and Upgrade Instruction System prerequisites, information about compatibility with previous versions of VISUALjob for Control-M and detailed upgrade instructions are documented in the VISUALjob for Control-M Installation Guide.

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