Regular expressions are supported with File Trigger jobs when the System Agent is at least at release: R11.3 SP4 INCREMENTAL 1
For example on Linux, patch RO77796 or higher ( LNX-X86 - CA WA AGENT R11.3 SP4 INCREMENTAL 1 ) has to be installed
To activate this feature, new agentparm.txt setting (filemon.filename.r7regex=true) has been added to support regular expression characters.
To activate any new settings in the agentparm.txt file, you have to stop and restart the System Agent
A typical FT Job might be:
insert_job: TEST_FT1 job_type: FT
machine: machine1
owner: autosys
permission: gx,wx,mx
date_conditions: 0
description: "FT test with regular expressions"
alarm_if_fail: 1
watch_file: /apps/corgl/corgl_cs1/cs1/data1/fic/???_C[0-9,A-L,N-Z][0-9,A-Z]_*
watch_file_recursive: 0
watch_file_type: CREATE
watch_no_change: 1
continuous: 0
watch_file_change_type: "SIZE"
11.3 SP4 Incremental 1 - CA Workload Automation Agents - 11.3.4 - CA Technologies Documentation
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/kbproblem?docid=621245&productcd=SYSAGT&problemnbr=203(UNIX and Linux only) If a file name in a File Trigger job is specified with square brackets used regular expression characters, whether mixed with wildcard characters or not, the characters are not recognized as regular expression characters, resulting in a file mismatch. Release 7 allowed square brackets to be interpreted as regular expression characters in addition to the wildcard characters “*” and “?”.
For example, a file name of *.[tT][xX][tT] will not match a file name of test.txt or text.TXT.
A new agentparm.txt setting (filemon.filename.r7regex=true) has been added to support regular expression characters.
When the following two settings are enabled, the agent emulates the Release 7 handling of these regular expression characters:
filemon.filename.r7regex=true
filemonplugin.scan.splitwildcard.disable=true