After migrating jobs from v21 to v24, arguments containing a quoted string with comma + space (, ) are being split into two tokens.

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

After migrating jobs from v21 to v24, arguments containing a quoted string with comma + space (, ) are being split into two tokens.

On Automic version 21, these were passed as a single argument.

Environment

Agent Windows 24.4.x

Cause

DE176265

Issue with Argument Parsing on Windows

Resolution

Update to a fix version listed below or a newer version if available.

Fix version:
Component(s): Agent Windows

Automation.Engine 24.4.2 HF2 - Available
Automation.Engine 24.4.3 - Available

Additional Information

Public Description: A problem has been fixed that prevents processing commands with arguments on Windows properly.