ApplMailaddresslist is invalid

Products

• CA Workload Automation DE

Issue/Introduction

After creating a new global variable with email ID and adding the variable under notifications for a job, the following errors are appearing.

 

com.ca.wa.comp.schedulerserver.appl.ApplicationGenerateException: Could not resolve %VAR(‘_VARNAME’, ’VAR__CONTEXT’) in ApplMailaddresslist. The exception is: The function [%VAR(‘_VARNAME’, ’VAR__CONTEXT’)] failed to execute: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException: Compilation produced 7 syntax errors.

illegal character on line 1 offset 5, line source: VAR(‘_VARNAME’, ’VAR__CONTEXT’) syntax error on line 1 offset 5, line source: VAR(‘_VARNAME’, ’VAR__CONTEXT’) illegal character on line 1 offset 13, line source: VAR(‘_VARNAME’, ’VAR__CONTEXT’) syntax error on line 1 offset 14, line source: VAR(‘_VARNAME’, ’VAR__CONTEXT’) illegal character on line 1 offset 16, line source: VAR(‘_VARNAME’, ’VAR__CONTEXT’) illegal character on line 1 offset 29, line source: VAR(‘_VARNAME’, ’VAR__CONTEXT’) syntax error on line 1 offset 29, line source: VAR(‘_VARNAME’, ’VAR__CONTEXT’)

Environment

Release : 12.2

Component : CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION DE (DSERIES)

Cause

The variable single quote was copied from MS word and the character became corrupt.

Resolution

The problem was solved by cold starting the server and manually replacing the single quote character.