Defining a Pre-Execution Web Service operation step

The following procedure describes how to define a Pre-Execution operation step for Web Service. You can add only one pre-execution operation.

NOTE: If you want to remove all content from the step, from the Pre-Execution operation step, click and click Clear content.

To define a Pre-Execution operation step:

1. (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.
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 about Output Handling rules, see Output Handling rules.

9. If you want 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 job output content for your job type, from the toolbar by clicking Options.