Online Tracking and Control Facility in CONTROL-M

Active Environment (Status) Screen: Online Tracking and Control Facility

The Online Tracking and Control facility is accessed through option 3 of the
IOA Primary Option menu. It is the main user interface to the monitoring of
the jobs scheduled for the day. This facility consists of a number of screens,
each providing the user with relevant information and options


The main screen of this facility is the Active Environment screen. (Prior to
version 6.0.00, this screen, which displays the status of each job order in the
Active Jobs file, was referred to as the Status screen.) All screens and
windows available in the Online Tracking and Control facility are accessed
through the Active Environment screen. In the Online Tracking and Control
facility, you can perform the following functions:
• view the status of each job order in the Active Jobs file
• place a job in HELD status or free a HELD job
• delete a job order
• obtain a statistical overview of the status of jobs in the Active
Environment screen
• see why a job in the Active Jobs file has not been submitted. If job
submission is held up due to missing prerequisite conditions, you can
optionally add those conditions manually
• display a job’s Log file to view all messages issued for the job
• zoom in on the parameters of a job order
This includes not only the job scheduling definition parameters, but also
parameters determined by the CONTROL-M monitor at runtime. Manual
update of some of these parameters for the job order is permitted.
• view a job’s documentation
• add notes to a job, for example, to document actions that were taken
• confirm the scheduling, rerun, or restart (if CONTROL-R is active), of a
job that has been defined as requiring manual confirmation
• view the execution history of all orders of a job, and view the job order
sysouts
• view the accumulated statistics of successful executions of a job
• view the list of job dependencies for a specific job, that is, the
predecessor and successor jobs of the selected job, and perform manual
job flow adjustment, such as priority adjustment
You can filter which jobs in the Active Jobs file are displayed in the Active
Environment screen.