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• Instructions to execute jobs are basic to workflow automation.
• Any number of jobs can be executed in a workflow. Jobs can be reused within the same workflow.

Job

• A job is the basic unit what to execute with an Agent.
• Job implementations come in with the following flavors:
  • Shell Jobs are executed with the operating system shell, e.g. the Windows Shell or one of the Unix Shells such as /bin/sh, /bin/bash etc.
    • Shell jobs include to call any shell commands, scripts and executable files.
    • Such jobs behave similarly to individual commands being executed in the command line of the operating system.
    • Shell jobs include to use scripting languages such as Perl, Ruby, Python, PowerShell etc. for which an interpreter is installed with the OS that can be executed from the command line.
  • JVM Jobs are implemented in a number of supported languages that can be operated for a Java Virtual Machine and for which the Agent exposes JS7 - Order Variables and job node arguments. Job implementation languages include
    • Java: such jobs are executed in the JVM provided by the Agent.
    • JavaScript, Ruby, Python etc.: such jobs require use of a GraalVM® Java Virtual Machine that provides the compiler for the respective scripting language.

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