HCL Workload Automation, Version 9.4

Passing job standard output from one job to another as standard input in the same job stream instance

You can export the job standard output from a dynamic job to a successive executable job as standard input in the same job stream instance. The job standard output variable is used in the input field of the executable job definition

To add a job standard output within another executable job definition, to have it resolved locally on the agent at run time, use the following syntax:

${job:<JOB_NAME>.stduri}

where <JOB_NAME> is the name value or alias name value of the job from which you are exporting the job standard output.

Note: The stduri variable passing is not supported for shadow jobs. Because shadow jobs do not produce a job log, if you pass the job stdout variable as input to another job in the same job stream, the output of the job is empty. A shadow job can only print a status message.

Example

In this example, the NC112019#JS_PROP job stream contains the JOBALIAS_A that is the NC112019#JOBA alias and NC112019#JOBB jobs. The NC112019#JOBB executable job references the JOBALIAS_A standard output as standard input.

The database definitions:

SCHEDULE NC112019#JS_PROP 
:
NC112019#JOBA AS JOBALIAS_A
 TASK
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsdl:jobDefinition xmlns:jsdl="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/scheduling/
  1.0/jsdl" xmlns:
jsdle="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/scheduling/1.0/jsdle" name="executable">
  <jsdl:application name="executable">
    <jsdle:executable interactive="false" path="ls"/>
  </jsdl:application>
</jsdl:jobDefinition>
 DESCRIPTION "Added by composer for job stream: NC112019#JS_PROP."
 RECOVERY STOP

NC112019#JOBB
 TASK
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsdl:jobDefinition xmlns:XMLSchema="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:jsdl="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/scheduling/1.0/jsdl" xmlns:
jsdle="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/scheduling/1.0/jsdle" XMLSchema:text=
   "resolveVariableTable" 
         name="executable">
  <jsdl:application name="executable">
    <jsdle:executable input="${job:JOBALIAS_A.stduri}" 
        interactive="false" path="cat"/>
  </jsdl:application>
</jsdl:jobDefinition>
 DESCRIPTION "Added by composer for job stream: WIN92MAS#JS_PROP."
 RECOVERY STOP
 FOLLOWS JOBALIAS_A
END