Defining an Execution Web Services operation step

The following procedure describes how to add an Execution operation step for Web Service. You can add many execution operation steps if required.

After completing Execution operation steps you can validate, test and then deploy the job type. For more information about deployment, see Job type deployment.

To define an Execution operation step:

1. Do the following:
   • In the Name field, type the name of the Web Services Execution step.
   • (Optional) In the Description field type a description for the step which helps you identify the Execution step.
2. To run the operation step based on a specific event or condition, in the Conditions field, click and from the dropdown list select the parameters, as described in Condition parameters.

   NOTE: By default, the operation step only runs if the previous step succeeded. If you want the operation step to run regardless of the result of the previous operation, delete the condition by clicking.

3. In the Type field, ensure that you select Web Service.

   NOTE: To change the operation type, from the dropdown list select either Command Line or REST API.

4. In the WSDL field, click Import WSDL and do one of the following:
   • To import a new WSDL, see Importing a WSDL.
   • If already defined, select the WSDL.

   The fields are populated from the WSDL server.

   NOTE: To edit the Web Service Endpoint, see Editing the Web Service URL.

5. In the Operation field, from the drop-down list select an operation which is generated from the Server.
6. In the next field, from the drop-down list, select one of the following:
   • Specify parameters: Enables you to add values to the generated parameters.

     To add the parameters, see Defining a parameter for web services.

   • Edit request: Enables you to edit the SOAP request in an XML format.
7. If you select Edit request, in the SOAP request text box, you can add parameters by clicking .

   For more information about adding parameters see step 2 in Defining a parameter for web services.

   NOTE: If you want to expand the text box, click and when finished, click Update.

8. To define how the output should be handled, in the Output Handling field, click.

   For more information, see Output handling rules.

9. To add job completion verification select the Verify operation completion checkbox.

   For more information about Verify operation completion, see Defining a Command Line job completion verification rule.

10. To attach content to job output do any of the following:
    • To attach the Web Service request to Control-M output, select the Append web service request checkbox.
    • To attach the Web Service response to Control-M output, select the Append web service response checkbox.

    NOTE: You can change job output content for your job type, from the toolbar by clicking Options.

11. Add any of the following options:
    • To define how the job runs in the Monitoring domain, from the Execution operation step, click , click Runtime information capture.

      For more information, see Defining a Command Line runtime data rule.

    • To define how to stop the job manually, from the Execution operation step, click Manual abort operation.

      For more information, see Defining a Command Line manual abort operation rule.

    NOTE: You can also duplicate, clear content, add or delete a step. If you have created more than one Execution operation step, you can move the priority by clicking Move up or Move down.