Variable not correctly substituting in additional file

[dmcclainbsc]

Description

Hi. I am trying to enable multiple start dates within one experiment for DestinE. However, AQUA FDB files are silently failing to generate in Remote Setup because Autosubmit is not recognizing the variable (either %CHUNK_START_DATE% or %SDATE%) in the additional file aqua-True. This later causes LRA Generator jobs to fail when they cannot find the files.

• Autosubmit version: 4.1.14
• Machine/VM/environment name (if applicable): MN5
• Experiment ID (if applicable): t06y
• Experiment tasks & log path if applicable):
  • /appl/AS/AUTOSUBMIT_DATA/t06y/tmp/LOG_t06y/t06y_19900101_REMOTE_SETUP.20250616090605.err
  • I tried many different versions of this variable (see here) but none of them worked.

Reproducible Example

See experiment t06y.

Expected Behaviour

CHUNK_START_DATE or SDATE should be pulled from the current run and be used in the AQUA file generation in Remote Setup. For example, if the experiment datelist is '199010101 20200101', and the current sim is 20200101, the AQUA files should generate with only 20200101 as the date (eg config_catalog_20200101_REMOTE_SETUP).

[dbeltrankyl]

Hello @dmcclainbsc , is this still needed? or you find an alternative way?

The bug is still happening?

What was the issue exactly, that the name of the additional file was not matching the datelist you expected? or something else?

[dmcclainbsc]

Hi @dbeltrankyl. I believe it is still needed - for now we just tell users they cannot use AQUA with multiple start dates.

The issue was that we had a variable (AQUA.START_DATE) defined by default as the start date of the job (remote setup) that was not being correctly substituted in the additional file of the remote setup (see the comment here).

[dbeltrankyl]

Ok, thanks I'll move it back to 4.1.16 then