Automatically Creating Jobs

Create one or more RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent Jobs from the Create Jobs section by selecting values from the fields and clicking Create Jobs.

Prerequisite

Before creating Jobs from either the Create Jobs or Create Workflow section, you must manually define one or more RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent Jobs to use as template Job(s). If you have specified values for fields in the Oracle E-Business Suite template Job, they will be set for all Jobs you define from the Create Jobs and Create Workflow sections; so it is best to select templates with similar program and application requirements. Parameter values will also be transferred from the template Job to all newly created Jobs. So selecting a template without parameters is recommended, except when creating new Jobs with the same parameter values.

If you want all the Jobs you create to have:	Create and select a template Job with:
Only the parameters and values defined for the programs within OEBS.	No additional parameters.
The same parameters and values setup and defined on the Automation Engine template Job.	The parameters and values defined that would be useful when creating new Jobs.

For more information on field values of the Oracle E-Business Suite tab, see topic Setting Job Program Information.

Procedure

To automatically create Jobs for Oracle E-Business Suite programs:

1. View the RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent solution Agent object from the numbered client where you wish to create the Jobs and select the Oracle E-Business Suite tab and Create Jobs section.
2. Type or use the select icon to select the application short name for the request set.

When you click the select icon, the RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent opens the Program App Short Name dialog.

You can type the first few letters of a search in the search field, and the RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent will filter the results. The search field also supports UNIX regular expressions and the Oracle % wildcard for multiple characters. You can use the drop-down list to the right of the search field to select whether to search based on the application or description.

3. Type or use theselect icon in the Program Names field to select the program names for the Jobs you wish to create.

To manually type in multiple program names, separate the program names with a comma and no spaces.

When you click theselect icon, the RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent opens the Program Names dialog.

If the Exclude Existing Jobs box to the right of the Program Names field is checked, program names that already have Automation Engine Jobs created for them will be excluded from the list on the Program App Short Name dialog. The Exclude Existing Jobs box is checked by default.

You can type the first few letters of a search in the Search field, and the Automation Engine will filter the results. The Search field also supports UNIX regular expressions and the Oracle % wildcard for multiple characters. You can use the drop-down list to the right of the search field to select whether to search based on the program or description.

4. Select a template Job from the Template Job drop-down list.
5. Select the Automation Engine folder you want to create these Jobs in.

If you do not specify a folder, the Jobs will be created in the <No Folder> folder.

6. Enter additional content to the New Job Name field, or leave the default value.

The New Job Name field allows for a mix of text and replacement values. The following replacement values are allowed:

• {PROGRAM}: The name of the Oracle E-Business Suite program.
• {APPLICATION}: The name of the Oracle E-Business Suite application.
• {TEMPLATE}: The name of the Oracle E-Business Suite template.

Example: If you have a program named OEBSPROG and a template Job named FINANCIALS then you could enter {PROGRAM}-{TEMPLATE} to create a Job named OEBSPROG-FINANCIALS.

After automatically creating Jobs, the value you enter here is saved to a file named OEBS_jobName in the .RA subdirectory of your OS user. It is then recalled the next time you open this tab when you log into the Automation Engine user interface from the same computer as the same user.

7. Click Create Jobs to create the Job object(s).