Resource definition

Resources represent physical or logical scheduling resources that can be used as dependencies for jobs and job streams. Resources can be used as dependencies only by jobs and job streams that run on the workstation where the resource is defined.

Due to the resources dependencies resolution mechanism, a resource dependency at job stream level can be considered 'local' (and then its use supported) rather than 'global', when both the job stream and all its jobs are defined on the same workstation as the resource. However, a standard agent and its host can reference the same resources. For more information, refer to the needs keyword.

When creating a scheduling object, you can define it in a folder. If no folder path is specified, then the object definition is created in the current folder. By default, the current folder is the root (\) folder, but you can customize it to a different folder path. You can also use the composer rename command to move and rename objects in batch mode that use a naming convention to a different folder using part of the object name to assign a name to the object.

Syntax

$resource
[folder/]workstation#[folder/]resourcename units [“description? ]

[[folder/]workstation#[folder/]resourcename ...]

Arguments

[folder/]workstation

Specifies the name of the workstation or workstation class on which the resource is used, optionally preceded by the folder name within which the workstation or workstation class is defined.

[folder/]resourcename

Specifies the name of the resource, optionally preceded by the folder name within which the resource is defined. The resource name can contain up to eight alphanumeric characters, including dashes (-) and underscores (_), and must start with a letter.

units

Specifies the number of available resource units. Values can be 0 through 1024.

“description?

Provides a description of the resource. The description can contain up to 120 alphanumeric characters. It must be enclosed in double quotation marks.

The resource units involved in needs dependencies for a job or for a job stream remain busy until the job or job stream is completed (successfully or not). The resource units are released as soon as the job or job stream is completed.

When multiple jobs and job streams depend on the same resource, if not enough resource units are currently available for all of them it is assigned according to the job or job stream priority. The status of a job or job stream becomes READY as soon as all its dependencies are resolved. If the limit CPU set on the workstation does not allow it to run at the moment, it waits in READY state. The only exception to this behavior is when the job or job stream is GO or HI, in which case it starts regardless of the value set for limit CPU.

See also

For more information about how to perform the same task from the Dynamic Workload Console, see:

Designing your Workload.