Automic Workload Automation

Hi All

I have a scenario where a job has to process a list of files,(catch-up processing). I was able to read a VARA.FILELIST and submit multiple jobs at the same time with different input files.

But I have a list of jobs and they have their own list of files, so instead of creating a filelist for each job, I want to create the VARA once, with the same HOST and LOGIN and use it for different jobs.(the directory will keep changing).

Can we create the VARA.FILELIST through a script, and keep updating it?

Thank you!

You can put a variable name inside of the Directory option, such as "&MYDIR#", and populate this variable right before running your PREP_PROCESS_VAR() function.

Awesome! Thanks a ton!

I have written a routine to use the RA_FTP agent to list the contents of a directory and then add the list of files to a VARA.  The list is filtered to match a certain mask before being accepted and optionally against a list of previously processed files

Later in the overall process, as each file is successfully consumed, the entry is removed from the 'currrent' list and added to a 'history' list.

The initial step using RA_FTP can be replaced by any manual ftp process or an OS directory call if the source server has an Automic OS agent.

Patrick

Thankyou Patrick, for your solution,. I was able to use the variable option and achieve what I was looking for. But thankyou again,for sharing your approach, I am sure it will be helpful in the future.