In UTM, administration jobs are executed at different times. There are three fundamentally different execution times:
- Immediately (I)
Some jobs are executed immediately within the administration program unit and are not subject to transaction management (deferred delivery). These jobs are referred to as type I in the Administration Manual. The I stands for "immediate".
- At the end of the transaction (P)
Other jobs only take effect once the transaction within which the administration program unit was called has finished. As long as the transaction has not been completed it can still be reset, with the result that the administration job is then not executed. This type is referred to as P in the Administration Manual. The P stands for "PEND" (program end).
- Independently (A)
With this type, UTM initially only creates a job for executing the action, which is then executed by UTM at a subsequent point in time. Administration jobs of this type are not subject to transaction management but are executed by UTM separately from the administration program unit. This type is referred to as A in the Administration Manual. The A stands for "announced" or also "Action".
The openUTM manual "Administering Applications" indicates which of these three types each administration job is. In the case of some objects for which several properties can be modified, the individual changes may come under different types. For example, changing the status of a Tac takes immediate effect (I), but changing the lockcode is transaction-dependent and belongs to the second type (P).
It is also possible to find out about the modification characteristics of individual object properties in WebAdmin as well. They are also displayed with the tooltips on property pages (see Tooltips on property pages). You can also view these tooltips on property pages by hovering the mouse pointer over the name of an object property.