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  • 1.  List of Global Variables "Where used"

    Posted Jun 15, 2018 10:36 AM
    In order to better prevent unwanted side-effects upon modification of a global variable, is it possible to perform a “where used” query of global variables in various artifacts definition (e.g. application, jobs, event, javascript, etc.).
    I've looked all over CA Workload Automation Desktop Client (we are using Version: 12.0.01.00, Build:   0616, BTW) and that kind of information is not available, so I'm trying to construct a SQL query to obtain that info.
    Our installation uses MS SQL Server.


  • 2.  Re: List of Global Variables "Where used"

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 17, 2018 08:36 AM

    Hi,

    The Applications and other artifacts that use global variables are stored in CLOB format in the DB.  You cannot run a SQL query to extract that information.  You can list all the global variables in the Desktop client under Services.

     

    Thank you,

    Nitin Pande

    CA Technologies



  • 3.  Re: List of Global Variables "Where used"
    Best Answer

    Posted Jun 18, 2018 10:47 AM

    Dear Nitin,

     

    I'd opened a support case and this is the answer they gave me:

     

    "All of the Application definitions and job definitions are in the ESP_AMS_DF table under the DEFINITION column. Problem is, these are stored there in XML format. The customer can identify which applications contain some reference to the variable like this: SELECT * FROM ESP_AMS_DF WHERE ARTIFACTTYPE='APPLICATION' AND DEFINITION LIKE '%gvname%'; Replace "gvname" with the actual name of the global variable. Once they have the resulting rows from the above query, they can drill into the definition column values, find the variable and then identify the job tag it is embedded in to get the job name."

     

    I've succesfully retrieved the required data querying that table, being in the   IDENTIFIER and DEFINITION columns of the table.  Now, the problem consists in manually inspect the DEFINITION field to locate the Jobs needed. Here is a short list of the secuence to apply:

     

    1. Retrieve the XML data from DEFINITION column for all the "gvname" occurrences

    2. Construct a SQL query capable of parse the DEFINITION column content looking for ocurrences of "gvname"  and extract all related jobs names.  In our case, the jobs using global variables are the ones that begins with "<app:nt_job name=" and finish with "> "

     

    Currently I'm working in the code. As soon as I obtain some usable program, I'll share it here.



  • 4.  Re: List of Global Variables "Where used"

    Posted Jul 06, 2018 12:50 PM

    We schedule an export of all DE resources on a daily basis.  It is then easy to search through the xml files to find references to variables, agents, arguments, pretty much anything.  I use Agent Ransack which makes quick work of searching through the several thousand files that get exported.

     

    It's not the most sophisticated method but it proves reliable.