Defining a Web Service job completion verification rule

This procedure describes how to define a Web Service job completion verification rule to your Execution operation, which enables you to verify that a job is completed. You can also select Job completion verification when defining an Execution operation.

NOTE: If you want to remove all content from the step or delete the step, from the Verify operation completion operation step, click and select the option you require.

Before you begin

Ensure that you select Verify operation completion.

To define a job completion verification rule:

1. Type the number of seconds in the Run this step every [n] seconds until the defined completion criteria below is satisfied.
2. Click to add 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 change job output content, from the toolbar, by clicking Options.

10. In the Tolerance area, you can select one or more of the following:
    • Retries in case of failure: Type the number of retries and then add parameters where required.
    • Timeout: Type the timeout for this operation in minutes.

      NOTE: Default values: 0. The first job failure causes the step to fail.