Access to Task Attributes from Operations Center

You can include task equations after a WFL task initiation statement submitted from Operations Center. In addition, if you type in a complete WFL job from Operations Center, you can include task attribute assignments in the job attribute list. However, you cannot use task equations after the PRIMITIVE RUN command.

When you initiate a process from Operations Center, the process typically does not inherit any of the task attributes that it would if you initiated the process from a MARC or CANDE session. For example, the USERCODE, ACCESSCODE, CHARGE, and FAMILY values of the process are usually null, unless explicitly assigned.

However, task attributes are inherited in the following cases:

  • If you submit a WFL job that includes a USERCODE assignment in the job attribute list, then the following task attributes of the WFL job inherit values from the corresponding usercode attributes: CHARGE, CLASS, CONVENTION, FAMILY, LANGUAGE, PRINTDEFAULTS, and PRIORITY. This inheritance can be overridden by assignments to these attributes in the job attribute list.

  • If you submit a job, the job can inherit attributes from a job queue. Refer to “Deciding on the Queue for a Job” in Tasking from Programming Languages.

    Note that programs initiated by a PRIMITIVE RUN command do not inherit the terminal usercode or any other usercode attributes.