Recurring jobs do not pick up new values from a promptset

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine
• CA Automic One Automation

Issue/Introduction

If a job is set to execute recurring and the promptset value within the job is modified, the next generation of the job does not pick up the changes to the value.

This is also true for activate_uc_object which is often used from within the automic product directly or through the callapi, rest api, java api, etc...

Environment

Automic Automation 21.0

Cause

This behavior has been confirmed as by design. The values set within a prompt for a period container ( C_PERIOD via execute recurring or a PERIOD object itself) are saved for the run of the container. Other object information is processed at time of the execution, but the prompt data is not.

Resolution

Workaround:

Use ACTIVATE_UC_OBJECT within a Time Event, which picks up all changes per execution.