PREP_PROCESS_FILENAME provides no ascending or descending alphabetical order

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

PREP_PROCESS_FILENAME provides no ascending or descending alphabetical order

Environment

Release: AOATAM99000-9.0-Automic-One Automation Tools-Application Manager
Component:

Resolution

Symptoms

PREP_PROCESS_FILENAME provides no ascending or descending alphabetical order

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Cause

PREP_PROCESS_FILENAME is not designed to provide any sort order.

There is an error in Automic documentation: "The file names are listed in alphabetically ascending order."

This function is not given and will be removed in future versions of documentation.

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Resolution

The most efficient way to get a alphabetically sorted output is to use the prep_process command with appropriate OS parameters.

Example for a WIN system:

:SET &HND# = PREP_PROCESS("[WINagent]","WINCMD","*.*.*:*DIR*","CMD=DIR C:","UC_LOGIN=[LOGIN]")

:process &HND#

: set &ret# = get_process_line(&HND#,1)

: p &ret#

:endprocess

This method uses less resources and is flexible.