I've been fiddling over the last wee while with an idea for DS6.9 (see my previous blog entry). I've been thinking about how to introduce a working method for implementing global variables.
You see, my complex jobs often have user-editable parameters scattered throughout them. Scattering variables throughout a jobs task is really messy (and makes them harder to maintain). So, I thought about how we could just have one place where we put these variables in a job.
A special task in DS6.9 would have been nice. Something like this,
But this doesn't exist... so I've implemented something less elegant, and a full article on that will be posted shortly. If you think this would be advantage you you (in both DS6.9 and DS7) please comment.
If you know people who *would* like that, please direct them to comment too as my blog following likely rather an eclectic mix! I think it would be a good feature request! Ian./
I think this is something that should've existed a lont time ago already ;)
I certainly would love to see this implemented. I am currently creating scripts that behave differently based on the environment they run in (usually by performing some simple arithmetic on the base subnet). It would be nice to see something similar be made possible from the interface. You have my vote Ian! :)