Third Party Scheduling

[Former Member]

Greetings,

working at a customer site who is interested in using a third party tool Control-M to schedule the execution of business objects reports.

What kind of integration is required to accomodate this request?

M

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Martin,

As a precurser, the scheduling of reports using third party tools is not supported since our product has that ability as a feature. Having said that, I'll proceed with a little information on how it has been done.

An approach I have found on older forums was to create a java application that could be called from the command line. Our JAVA SDK can be used for the actual scheduling. I have some code that can be sent to you to work with.

If you are looking for an approach using something other than JAVA, then I can not be of assistance. However, the .NET or com SDK may offer a similar solution.

In essence, Control-M can be used to fire off the java application to do the scheduling. It seems like quite a bit of work to do something that can be done using the built in scheduling tools, but I may not know the full picture.

// tony

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Tony,

thanks, that's exactly what I thought. And yes it does appear to be an unncessary customization. From a feasibility perspective, what level of effort would be required to develop this Java interface? From the customer's perspective, they have several tools in their possession operated by the support team. The ideal state from the support team is to use a single tool to schedule all application activities. Okay, stop laughing. Question I think turns into a feasibility one: is it worth the additional development and ownerhship costs to integrate control-M and boxi versus the cost of training two resources in performing that activity directly in BOXI. Would hope that the later is true.

Martin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Well, aside from the thrill and bragging rights with "Look what we can do" I would think that using the product for what it was designed for is best. However, one of the best features of our product is the ability to use our SDK to do administrative tasks. The https://boc.sdn.sap.com/node/7619 link has info on scheduling reports. They could do a little coding and basically loop thru their reports and use code to schedule them. This can be done via a web application, or using their Control-M tool to launch a java app to do whatever they want.

If they don't do any java coding, it will either be pretty hard, or fairly costly I would imagine. Anywho, I can email you some code and such and they can look at it. It will either help them, or be a deterent enough that they may want to reconsider.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Toni...

I am trying to do integrate Control-M with BO. Would you please be kind to share the Java codes with me?

I really appreciate the help!!!

Thanks in advanced for your help!!!

Best regards,

IN