Workflow Automation & Optimization Flashcards

Which IICS Workflow element is used to evaluate a Boolean condition and direct execution to one of two possible paths?

Answer: Decision task

The Decision task evaluates a condition expression and routes workflow execution along a true or false path accordingly.

What is the effect of setting a task's 'Must Complete' property in an IICS Workflow?

Answer: The workflow waits for the task to finish before proceeding even in concurrent branches

'Must Complete' ensures that converging parallel branches wait for all required tasks to finish before the workflow continues downstream.

In IICS, which approach best reduces redundant data movement when automating multiple dependent mapping tasks in a workflow?

Answer: Staging data in a persistent staging area and referencing it across tasks

Using a staging area avoids re-extracting source data for each task, reducing redundant movement and improving performance.

Which IICS Workflow property controls the maximum number of times a task is retried after a transient failure before the workflow marks it as failed?

Answer: Max retries

The 'Max retries' property specifies how many automatic retry attempts the workflow engine makes for a task before marking it as failed.

When an IICS Workflow uses a sub-workflow (child workflow), how are output values passed back to the parent workflow?

Answer: Through output parameters defined on the sub-workflow task

Sub-workflows expose output parameters that parent workflows can read after the sub-workflow task completes.

In IICS Workflow monitoring, which status indicates that a workflow has been triggered but is waiting for an available Secure Agent thread?

Answer: Queued

A 'Queued' status means the workflow has been submitted but is pending resource availability on the Secure Agent.

Which technique in IICS Workflow design helps avoid hard-coded connection information and supports environment promotion (dev to prod)?

Answer: Using connections defined as workflow parameters or parameter files

Parameterizing connection references allows the same workflow to use different connections per environment without design changes.