I want to write a fex that runs 16 schedules. I would like to collect the Job IDs for these runs.

Is this complicated? Apparently I should be using RESTful web services for this. Can I use RESTful web services in a fex? If so, how?

Thanks very much,

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Did you find and download the doc on this?

I use RESTful calls for RC jobs. I don't call from a fex. We wrote a little JAVA app that makes these calls as we wanted Control-M to run these jobs as successors of data loads.

Hi,

We call schedules from a fex. Basic steps were to set up a master to use for the restsignon and then another for running the schedule.

Then you table the master and print the path and response

We also use edamail to send us information on errors

quote:

Basic steps were to set up a master to use for the restsignon and then another for running the schedule

CLH, is this documented? I'd rather not have to write a Java program (does IBI provide a GUI to write a Java program?).

Thanks very much,

It's hard to find as the doc for it was all over the place. Here are the steps once you have Rest License

1. Set up a rest connection using rest adapter. Only thing we needed to change was the Base URL to match our server name (note this is url used to access the client)
2. Create metadata for restsignon and runsched these were a challenge and IBI helped with this
3. Write a fex for signon this has to be executed every time basic code is
TABLE FILE RESTSIGNON
PRINT RETURNCODE RETURNDESC
IF IBIRS_USERNAME EQ USERID
IF IBIRS_PASSWORD EQ USERPASS
ON TABLE SAVE AS SIGNRETURN
END
-RUN

we added code to check the return code etc..
4. a fex to run the schedules
This fex first executes the restsignon fex

Then it
TABLE FILE RUNSCHED
PRINT
RUNSCHED.M6ILO.IBIRS_PATH AS 'Schedule Path'
RUNSCHED.M6ILO._RESPONS AS 'Job id'
IF IBIRS_PATH IS(PICKME)
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUMNOLEAD
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END

PICKME was an alpha file created earlier that in my case queries WF_REPOSOBJ and concatenates PRT_PATH with OBJNAME for the schedule I want to run (passed in as a variable)

That's basically it. We have an alert schedule that when conditions are met as a post process runs the RUNSCHED fex passing in the schedule we want to run if only one or use a modified version of the fex if more than one.

Hope this helps to get you started
Crystal

CLH,

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I'll look into it soon.

Regards,