How to add current date to log file path in JIL

[Gerald Britton]

In my autosys jil (Windows), I have logging set up like this:

std_out_file: <servername>\autosys_log\%AUTO_JOB_NAME%-%AUTORUN%.std.out

I want to add the current date to the path, so e.g. for today that would be:

std_out_file: <servername>\autosys_log\2022-11-04\%AUTO_JOB_NAME%-%AUTORUN%.std.out

How can I get that to work? I need some way of dynamically inserting the current date in the output path.

[Gene Howard]

Please see the below KB articles that should help you out here
Using Environment Variables/Global Variables in WAAE Job Log Filenames
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=10791

Adding a date time stamp to a standard out file name in Windows

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=32782

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Gene Howard
Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[Gerald Britton]

So I tried the approach in the article, set the log spec to this:

std_out_file: <servername>\autosys_log\%DATE:~10,4%%DATE:~7,2%%DATE:~4,2%-%AUTO_JOB_NAME%-%AUTORUN%.std.out

but after the test run, all I got in the log directory is a file named:

%DATE

Can you spot the error in my syntax?  I must have missed something.

[Gene Howard]

I need a little more information.

What version of autosys are you using?

autoflag -a

what version of the agent are you using?

cybAgent -vv

What does the below command show when you log into the agent machine as the job owner and run this at a command prompt?

echo %DATE:~4%

or

echo %DATE:~-10,2%-%DATE:~-7,2%-%DATE:~4%

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Gene Howard
Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[Gerald Britton]

when I type 

echo %DATE:~4%

I receive the response 

11/07/2022

the cybAgent command returns

CA Workload Automation Agent for:
    Windows  64-bit
    11.4, Service Pack 01, Maintenance Level 0, Build 1933

Functionality:

config, ftp, management, snmp off
filebrowser, filemon, objmon, router, runner on

I could not find the autoflag command

[Gene Howard]

So the 11.4 agents was released back in 2018

the first thing I would suggest is updating to an R12 agent and see if that changes the behavior

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Gene Howard
Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[Gerald Britton]

I've been told that our the R12 agents are not supported on Windows 2012 server.  Is that true?  I don't want to try to install something that is incompatible.

[Jose Lopez]

hi,

it is not officially compatible


best regards
José

[Jose Lopez]

hi,

Does your autosys scheduler run on a windows or linux?
if it runs on linux you should defined the sendevent command using the date command

thanks
José