Summary
Well done. We have completed the first chapter! This has been an interesting trip through history back to the future, that is, from the beginning of batch processing all the way to today's latest technology. As people always say, for everything there is a reason, the best way to understand its purpose is to understand the history. By now, you should have a good understanding of the concept of batch processing and centralized enterprise scheduling — what were the challenges and why they exist today. On top of that, we also had an overall view of the latest concept — workload automation.
Later on in this book, you will see how the challenges are addressed and how the ideal workload automation cocept is achieved in the amazing feature of Control-M. ...
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