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Workflows and Orders are the basic objects that are used for workload automationJobs are used within workflows preferably to execute shell commands, scripts and binaries with Agents.

• A workflow includes a any number of instructions to execute jobs and to implement dependencies such as to execute a job, to fork and join processing, to acquire a lock etc.
• An order is added to a workflow and is scheduled for a given date and time. The order will pass the nodes of a workflow and will be subject to a number of state transitions.
• Any number of orders can be processed in parallel by a workflow.
• Job implementations come in the following flavors:
  • Shell jobs are executed with the operating system shell, e.g. the Windows Shell and one of the Unix Shells such as /bin/sh, /bin/bash etc.
    • Shell jobs include any shell commands, scripts and executable files.
    • Such jobs behave similarly as individual commands being executed in the command line of the operating system.
  • API jobs are implemented in a number of supported languages for which JS7 exposes an API to access JS7 - Order Variables and job arguments
  Workflows and depending objects such as locks have to be deployed to a Controller
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