A Global Investment Bank centralising its derivative trading hardware and software into London required its regional daily batches to be merged into one global 24 x 6 batch. Each regional batch ran on local hardware and was intrinsically tied to that region's time zone and contained several thousand commands and tens of thousands of inter-dependencies. A complete redesign and refactor of the regional batches into a singular global batch was required. All elements of the batch were changed including timing of jobs, servers for execution, users running jobs, job inter-dependencies, and input and output directories. In addition to the regional consolidation, an upgraded version of the batch scheduling system Control-M was also required. This requirement meant a migration of the current contro

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