File Transfers with a wildcard and symbolic link fail

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

Problem transferring files using wildcard enabled symbolic link path, e.g.:

/home/<user>/<symlink_to_linked_folder>/*.txt

An error only occurs when wildcards are enabled. Copying individual files works. 

Cause

This works by design

Resolution

There are 2 possibilities to make this work:

• In the [FILETRANSFER]-section of the Agent's ini-file set ft_Linkfiles = yes
• Set ft_Linkfiles = yes inside the job as in the image below.