Defining UNIX Jobs

You can define a UNIX (UNIX_JOB) job to schedule workload to run on a UNIX computer. The job can run a script or execute a command.

Note: To run these jobs, your system requires CA WA Agent for UNIX or Linux.

Required Statements

To define a UNIX job, you must specify the following statements:

AGENT
CMDNAME or SCRIPTNAME

Note: Use the SCRIPTNAME statement to run shell scripts and the CMDNAME statement to run binary files. If you specify the CMDNAME statement, you must also specify the USER statement.

Optional Statements

You can specify the following optional statements for a UNIX job:

ARGS
ENVAR
EXITCODE
FILESYSTEM
JOBCLASS
PROCESS_PRIORITY
SHELL
ULIMIT
USER (required if CMDNAME is specified)

Example: Run a Command

This example runs the data command under the user1 user ID. The job runs on the UNIX_NY agent.

AGENT UNIX_NY
CMDNAME /mfg/test/data
USER user1

Note: When running a command, you must define the user ID the command runs under.

Example: Run a Script

This example invokes the C shell to run the sort script on the UNIX_LA agent:

AGENT UNIX_LA
SCRIPTNAME /mfg/test/sort
SHELL /bin/csh