Process Pages

You can use the Process pages to enter processing instructions in Automic's scripting language. The script is processed when the object is either activated or started, which you can define on the Attributes Pages of Executable Objects.

Object types with this page

All executable object types.

Purpose/Background

Executable objects have a Process page that contains the scripts that are triggered during executions. In the case of Job objects, three process pages are available. As soon as the specified conditions apply, the event that is triggered starts processing the statements.

Which conditions you can enter depends on the object type.

For example:

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Process Pages in Job Objects

Job objects have three process pages, namely:

SAP Job and Remote Task Manager objects have one additional page: Child Post-Process Page

Furthermore, the Process page of SAP jobs provides additional functionality to easily build SAP functions that you can then execute in your SAP system directly from within the Automation Engine. See SAP Forms.

Script Processing Order

If you have entered scripts in the various pages of job objects, they are processed in the following order:

Pre-process
Process
Post-process
Child post-process

Pre-Process and Process commands are executed together, therefore, you script variables set in the Pre-Process script are also valid in the Process script.

Using JCL commands

You can use Job Control Language (JCL) commands in the scripts in your object definition. However, make sure to use the commands and syntax of the JCL of the target system, because that is where they will be interpreted.