Does 11.3.6 SP6 support ":" in the job name?
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Does 11.3.6 SP6 support ":" in the job name?

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Article ID: 93025

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Products

CA Workload Automation AE - Business Agents (AutoSys) CA Workload Automation AE - Scheduler (AutoSys) Workload Automation Agent

Issue/Introduction

Many of our jobs have ":" in the job name. Is colons supported as a character in the job name for an WAAE job.

Environment

Release: ATSYHA99000-11.3.5-Workload Automation AE-High Availability Option
Component:

Resolution

1. export JIL_ACCEPT_COLON=1 in your Autosys environment.
2. create the job definition encompass the job that has the colon in double qoutes.
Example: ]$ jil
jil>>1> insert_job: "my:job"
jil>>2> job_type: CMD
il>>3> command: ls
jil>>4> owner: autosys@machine1
jil>>5> machine: machine1
jil>>6> exit