CA WA Agent: Aliases not working or expanding in UNIX jobs

Products

• Workload Automation Agent

Issue/Introduction

User defined or system wide alias set in /etc/profile work for interactive users.  They are not expanded in UNIX or Linux jobs executed by CA WA Agent.

Environment

CA WA Agent
OS: Linux/UNIX

Cause

By default the aliases are not expanded in non-interactive shells.

Resolution

Consult man pages of shell used by the jobs.
For BASH, see the following:
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Aliases.html