Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide

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Variables

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Overview

CWA provides a rich set of variables representing system, job and job event data points. In addition, users can define 
their own variables to represent dynamic information. You can use variables for command parameters, in various action 
messages and in job and job group dependencies. You can update user-defined variables through variable actions. For 
more information about jobs and job groups, see 

Variables are useful for specifying information that continually changes or is only available at certain times. For example, 
if you want to know which queue your job enters when it runs, you can use the 

 variable to specify that 

information. Using the 

 variable in a mail action message, you can email yourself the name of the queue 

your job enters at every runtime.

CWA’s variables function is a blend of power and flexibility that you expect in a world-class application.

Note: Any argument that either explicitly has a space in it or could have a space in the argument should be enclosed in 
quotation marks; otherwise, the argument is returned as separate arguments wherever the spaces occur. For example, 
a job called Section 59 Tally would be returned as separate arguments, “Section,” “59” and “Tally.” Similarly, if a variable 
like 

<jobname> could return an argument containing a space, it also should be enclosed in quotation marks.

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Types of Variables

CWA supports these variable types as documented in this section:

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