Automic Workload Automation

Your Question
I would like to know, how to retrieve batch's start time, end time and runtime in an email. I tried adding predefined variables in pre-process and post-process tab of job. But that doesn't work. It popped out like "OPERATOR can only be allowed in NOTIFICATION object". 

Requirement: When a job start from Uc4, an email should be sent embedding its BATCH_NAME, START_TIME along with DATE. Likewise, when a job ends, an email should be sent with mail body having BATCH_NAME, START_TIME, END_TIME and RUNTIME along with DATE. Mail Subject - BATCH STATUS.

Our Answer
You can create a NOTIFICATION Object and activate it in Pre-process and Post-procest tab by ACTIVATE_UC_OBJECT function:

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FYI: 
If you want to send email from AE system, you need to configure the UC_CLIENT_SETTING, please check the reference links for more detail.

Reference links:
https://docs.automic.com/documentation/webhelp/english/AWA/12.0/DOCU/12.0/AWA%20Guides/help.htm#AWA/Objects/obj_notifications.htm%3FTocPath%3DUser%2520Guide%7CProcess%2520Assembly%2520Perspective%7CDefining%2520Objects%7CNotification%7C_____0
https://docs.automic.com/documentation/webhelp/english/AWA/12.0/DOCU/12.0/AWA%20Guides/help.htm#AWA/Admin/admin_UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS.htm
https://docs.automic.com/documentation/webhelp/english/AWA/12.0/DOCU/12.0/AWA%20Guides/help.htm#AE_AWA_Source/Script/ucaafh.htm%3FTocPath%3DAutomic%2520Scripting%2520Guide%7COrdered%2520by%2520Function%7CActivate%2520Objects%7C_____5

Hi Dat,

without modifying too many job objects you can also use the mechanism provided by HEADER.<platform>.USER.PRE and TRAILER.<platform>.USER.END/TRAILER.<platform>.USER.ABEND

Hi Dat,

Can you please clarify, what should be included in ":SET &ACTOBJ# = ACTIVATE_UC_OBJECT("your notification object name"<here?>,,,,,PASS_VALUES)".

Eg. If my mail body should contain- "BATCH '<batch name>' started in DEV environment at 07/20/2017 13:54:48".  I can use 
:set &date# = SYS_DATE_PHYSICAL()
:set &time# = SYS_TIME_PHYSICAL("HH:MM:SS")
to get time and date. But how to get the batch name in my mail. I should not hard code any batch name in my notification object and it should be a generic template to be used in all Jobs such that when I add the function you specified, it should pick up batch name by itself.

If you have no Idea how to handle activate_uc_object you can have a look here:

https://docs.automic.com/documentation/WEBHELP/English/AWA/11.2/AE/11.2/All%20Guides/help.htm#ucaafh.htm%3FTocPath%3DAutomation%2520Engine%2520Script%2520Guide%7COrdered%2520by%2520Function%7CActivate%2520Objects%7C_____5

If you still have no Idea I would recommend attending an Automic Basics Training and an Automic Script training. :-)

Hi Wolf,

Instead of going with above function, I tried with simple SEND_MAIL function.as below:

Possibly it works with GET_STATISTIC_DETAIL :-)

the predefined Script variable &$RUNTIME# does return a valid value in PostScript ONLY!

Hi Wolfgang,

Awesome. It works. 

Thank You :)

You `re welcome :-)