Project selection

In the Projects step, you import scheduling definitions and associated files from your source scheduler into the Conversion Tool. The data is used in the next steps of the conversion procedure, or can be saved in a file for conversion later.

When starting the Projects step, you can choose one of the following options:

• Create a new project: Enables you to select the source scheduler or application and the data that you want to convert to the Control-M environment. Importing data is vendor specific.

  You can also define a new Validation conversion project, which enables you to validate a draft file that was not created using the Conversion Tool. For example, this enables Mainframe conversions to use the Forecast Tool in Control-M. After loading the file into the Conversion tool, you can then proceed to validate the data and/or load into Control-M. For more information, see Defining a new Validation project.

• Use an existing project: Enables you to use data that was imported previously. You can run a conversion project using the same data multiple times. Each time that you run the conversion project, you can resolve warning or error messages using the reports generated by the Conversion Tool.
• Use a demo project: Enables you to run a project. You can use an existing demo data to see how data is converted and imported into Control-M.

  After creating a conversion project, in the Data Import window, you can view a data report that contains an overview of the imported data. You can reload data if you want to change any data that has been imported.