Referenced Objects Usage in Rapid Automation Agents

Products

• CA Automic Applications Manager (AM)

Issue/Introduction

When attempting to view the Usage of certain objects, such as substitution variables (subvars), no results are returned even when the objects are known to be used within Jobs or Components (e.g., under the BANNER tab) in Applications Manager.

Resolution

Rapid Automation (RA) Agents, such as the Banner Agent, handle and store object data as XML strings in the database. The Usage function in the interface is currently unable to index or retrieve object references that are embedded within these XML-formatted fields.

Specifically, this occurs because:

• Job definitions for RA Agents are stored in the AW_JOB_XML_CLOB column of the AW_MODULE_XML table.
• Component and Chain details are stored in the AW_COMP_XML_CLOB column of the AW_CHAIN_DETAIL_XML table.

Because parameters, login overrides, and other task properties exist within these XML blobs, selecting Usage for a subvar will not show its inclusion within those specific RA jobs.