A User-Job-Definition is the SDF equivalent of a Console Job. Prior to version 2.6, User Jobs could only be defined using the Console’s

Jobs

Edit

New Job

dialog. It is envisioned that customers will continue to use the GUI to define Jobs. However, in order to facilitate the transfer of pre-defined jobs between Dev, Test, QA and Prod environments a new mechanism was needed to export the definition from the Rulebase into an SDF, and the SDF was enhanced by adding syntax for defining User-Jobs.

Jobs are exported from the Rulebase into SDF format using

System

Export

SDF

. The parameters associated with a Job Step mirror the parameter names in the equivalent GUI dialog used to create it. The easiest way to get started is to define a Job using the Console and export it to an SDF.

A

User-Job-Definition

contains two parameters:

Field	Description
NAME=	Defines the name of the User-Job. All subordinate User-Step-Definitions quote this name to associate themselves with the User-Job-Definition.
COMMENT=	This is an optional text field that is used to describe User-Job’s purpose.