How to set max parallel tasks to unlimited in HOSTG or JOBG

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

This inconsitency concerns missing details JOBG documentation about the attribute "Allow - - Maximum number of simultaneous executions of jobs within the group"

https://docs.automic.com/documentation/webhelp/english/AA/12.3/DOCU/12.3/Automic%20Automation%20Guides/help.htm#AWA/Objects/obj_Group_Attributes.htm?Highlight=999

From the documentation about Job Attributes we see about "Allow <x> simultaneous executions":

https://docs.automic.com/documentation/webhelp/english/AA/12.3/DOCU/12.3/Automic%20Automation%20Guides/help.htm#AWA/Objects/obj_attributes_defining.htm?Highlight=attribute

You can read the following

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Allowed values:

0-999 for Jobs within a Job Group
99999 for all other object types
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Inconsistencies observed

When a JOBG are opened per default the values in this field is 'unlimited'.
When the values is left to 'unlimited' in the JOBG attributes settings, each member JOBS of the JOBG is started and remains status 'registered', it behaves as if the values would be 0.

Problem:

The documentation does not explain the real behavior (allow 0 jobs in parallel causes the started JOBs to stay in status 'registered'.
'Unlimited' as default value should appear in the default attribute settings because this behavior does not exist.
In the JOBG attributes settings a popup should come up informing the user what is the effect of using 0 as a value

So the behavior of AWI is misleading, JOBG cannot have the Value 0 and also unlimited is displayed wrongly.

It shows "unlimited" but starts nothing just as 0.

 

Environment

Release : 12.3 Component : AWI

 

Cause

This is a bug of the AWI

Resolution

Resolution : A bug has been fixed where the maximum number of simultaneous executions of jobs within a job group was not correctly displayed if the value was 0.

Fix will be available in versions of the AWi :

12.3.9 available

21.0.3 available

 

Additional Information

Please keep always AE and AWI versions aligned as this has been documented