CA Workload Automation iXp User Guide - CA Technologies

CA Workload Automation AE TermsSHTTP: Secure HyperText Transfer ProtocolSite: A group of one or more CA Workload Automation AE instances.Site Filter: A Job Attribute Filter that displays only the Site icon.Transitive Closure Filter: Follows all Box and dependency relationships in bothdirections, throughout the CA Workload Automation AE Job structure. First aRecursive Critical Path filter is applied to the selected job, and then a RecursiveCritical Path filter is applied to the resulting jobs, and so forth through the jobstream.Tree View: View on the left of the iXp window that depicts the hierarchical boxstructure of the jobs.10.2 CA Workload Automation AETermsSee also CA Workload Automation AE User GuideAlarm: Alarms are special events that notify operations personnel of situationsrequiring attention.Box Job: A CA Workload Automation AE job that spawns other jobs that are“contained” in the Box Job.Global Variable: Set by the sendevent SET_GLOBAL commands, GlobalVariables are used to create dependency relationships.JIL: Job Information Language. Refer to the CA Workload Automation AE UserGuide.Job: A job is the basic building block upon which an operations cycle is built. AnCA Workload Automation AE job is any single command or executable, UNIXshell script, or NT batch file. Each CA Workload Automation AE job definitioncontains qualifying attributes, including conditions for when and where a jobshould be run. Command Jobs execute commands, Box Jobs are containers,which hold other jobs, and File Watcher Jobs watch for the arrival of a specifiedfile.Job Name: The job name is used to identify the job to CA Workload AutomationAE, and must be unique within CA Workload Automation AE. It can be from 1 to30 alphanumeric characters, and is terminated with white space. Embeddedblanks and tabs are illegal.GLOSSARY 147