Pass the output value of the jobs predecessor to the next job

[Sus Satriyo Adi Suryo]

Hi,

 

I have scenario like this. This scenario is requested by my customer:

- Job A: Capture the date within file. I use vbs to handle this instead use the text file reading and monitoring.

- Job B : Capture the system date of the PC. I created vbs to capture the system date of the PC

- Job C: showing the date captured by Job A and Job B into the message box. The message box should be providing "Yes" and "No" button. If the date captured by Job A and Job B is appropriate, then click "Yes" button to continue to the next job. If the date between Job A and Job B are not same, then click "No" button and turns Job A to "On Hold".

 

For Job C I use vbs script like this:

Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
T1 = objArgs(0)
T2 = objArgs(1)
mas="Date within file is" & T1 & chr(10) & "Date from system " & T2 & chr(10) & "Are those date are same?"
x=MsgBox(mas,4,"Operation Alert")

I name this script as messagebox.vbs.

 

I expected T1 and T2 are used to accommodate the date captured by Job A and Job B.

 

how to pass the date captured by Job A and Job B to script/argument in job C?

Please give me idea to this case.

 

 

Regards,

Rio

[Nitin Pande]

Hi,

In DE you can use Job Output Variables.  The value of one job can passed to another within the same application.  You will have to make some changes on the agentparm.txt of the agent.  Then you will have to define the variables name in a very specific manner.

 

Please see this link for more details.

 

Thank you,

Nitin Pande

CA Technologies

[Sus Satriyo Adi Suryo]

Hi Nithin,

 

Thank you for your reply. after I read the link, I have several question:

1. Which JOB that I should have this javascript?

2. If in one JOB needs 2 variables, then should I define 2 Javascripts within this JOB?

 

What I'm doing right no to test JOB C is following:

Command to run   :   cscript

Argument to pass   : C:\messagebox.vbs %(APPL._user1) %(APPL._user2)

 

When I'm going to trigger JOB C, I set User Parameter to Pass to Event with a dummy value

Parameter 1: 25102017

Parameter 2: 24102017

The result is, JOB C work as expected. But I use a dummy value, not the return value from JOB A and JOB B.

 

Thanks

Rio

[Nitin Pande]

Hi,

Please note that 'Job output variable' supports a few job types.  The link I mentioned, lists all the supported job types.  It appears you may be trying to use a Windows job type and pass some values.  The Windows Job type does not return any variable from the agent so you will have to think of another way. 

One way you can get OS environment variable (envvar) back to DE is by using SETVAR in CLI to setup a global variable. Here is an example: 

OS_VAR=/tmp/`date +%y_%m_%d_%a`

cli de.example.com 7500 DE_USER password 'SETVAR name('VAR09') value("'$OS_VAR'")'

 

So, first set the OS variable, which can be anything.  Set the output of your JOBA to OS_VAR.  The you use the the CLI and connect to DE server with a valid user and being the OS_VAR value to DE.  Next pass the OS_VAR and the value in DE to your next JOBB or JOBC. 

 

Note:  You will need to install the CLI on the host where you are going to run the job.  The CLI referred here is CA Workload Automation DE CLI.  It's a very lightweight CLI utility that comes with CA WA DE DVD.

 

Let me know if this works for you. 

 

Thank you,

Nitin Pande

CA Technologies

[Sus Satriyo Adi Suryo]

Hi Nitin

 

 

 

I have created the global variable with value GET_DATE. Now how to set the output the JOB A to GET_DATE and how to pass the output of Job A to next jobs?

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Rio Satriyo

 

Solution Architect

 

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[Nitin Pande]

Hi,

Please see my previous post on to get the values from OS variable to DE side variable.  

 

Thank you,

 

Nitin Pande

CA Technoliges