box_success ignored when box is empty?

Products

• CA Workload Automation AE - System Agent (AutoSys)

Issue/Introduction

We are trying to understand why a box is going to success when the box_success conditions are not being met. 

/* ----------------- keith_1 ----------------- */

insert_job: keith_1   job_type: CMD
command: exit 1
machine: localhost
owner: autosys
date_conditions: 0
alarm_if_fail: 1
alarm_if_terminated: 1

/* ----------------- keith_1_box ----------------- */

insert_job: keith_1_box   job_type: BOX
owner: autosys
date_conditions: 0
box_success: s(keith_1)
term_run_time: 1
alarm_if_fail: 1
alarm_if_terminated: 1

Note that the "keith_1" job is NOT inside the box and the box itself does not contain any jobs. 

I run the first job and it fails as expected, but the second job immediately goes to success even though the box_success condition was not met:

Job Name                                                         Last Start           Last End             ST/Ex Run/Ntry Pri/Xit
________________________________________________________________ ____________________ ____________________ _____ ________ _______
keith_1                                                          02/03/2022 09:16:07  02/03/2022 09:16:07  FA    3645807/1 1

  Status/[Event]  Time                 Ntry ES  ProcessTime           Machine
  --------------  --------------------- --  --  --------------------- ----------------------------------------
  STARTING        02/03/2022 09:16:06    1  PD  02/03/2022 09:16:07   localhost
  RUNNING         02/03/2022 09:16:07    1  PD  02/03/2022 09:16:07  localhost
    <Executing at WA_AGENT>
  FAILURE         02/03/2022 09:16:07    1  PD  02/03/2022 09:16:13
  [*** ALARM ***]
    JOBFAILURE    02/03/2022 09:16:13    1  PD  02/03/2022 09:16:13  localhost

keith_1_box                                                      02/03/2022 09:18:22  02/03/2022 09:18:23  SU    3645816/1 0

  Status/[Event]  Time                 Ntry ES  ProcessTime           Machine
  --------------  --------------------- --  --  --------------------- ----------------------------------------
  RUNNING         02/03/2022 09:18:22    1  PD  02/03/2022 09:18:23
  SUCCESS         02/03/2022 09:18:23    1  PD  02/03/2022 09:18:30
  [CHK_BOX_TERM]  02/03/2022 09:19:22    1  PD  02/03/2022 09:18:30

Does box_success not get used when a box is empty?

 

Environment

Workload Automation AE (AutoSys)

Resolution

01. If the box has no children, when the box is started, it goes to RUNNING and goes to SUCCESS immediately ignoring the box_success.

02. The box_success attribute is evaluated by the child jobs of that box as the process their events.