Using JIL to make a copy of an existing Job

Products

• Autosys Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Steps required to copy one job to another.
This is for recreating a new iteration of a job without affecting the old job.

Environment

Autosys R12.x

Resolution

In order to copy a job using command line tools, it is required do use two different commands.
autorep command to export the job definition.
JIL to import the job definition after modification.

Example:
autorep -q -J job1 >job1.txt

Edit the job1.txt and change the job name to job2
(change the file name if you choose as well)

Then use JIL to import the file
jil < job2.txt

 

 

Additional Information

See the section for redirecting a file to jil
JIL Command Line utility

Below is the information on autorep.

Autorep Command Line Utility