Child Job Behavior After Killing Box Job

Products

• CA Workload Automation AE - Business Agents (AutoSys)
• CA Workload Automation AE - Scheduler (AutoSys)
• Workload Automation Agent

Issue/Introduction

Behaviour of box job when issuing sendevent to kill.

Child jobs still running Even After issuing sendevent command to kill box job?

Environment

All r11 versions.

Resolution

This is by design, when issuing a sendevent command to kill box job it just terminates the box job and the child jobs never gets terminated unless the child job has "job_terminator" parameter in the jil. Meanwhile, you may also issue sendevent command to child job which will terminate the box job.

 

Please find the snapshot below.

 

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Additional Information

Please find the Box-Job-Behavior in below link.

https://docops.ca.com/ca-wla-ae-wcc/11-4-2/en/scheduling/ae-scheduling/box-jobs-overview/basic-box-job-concepts