I'm not doing anything with the AutoSys database tables. This code does not create jobs or insert anything into or even directly access any database tables. I'm just parsing the output of the autorep and job_depends commands. job_depends can tell you the status of each condition in the condition string for existing jobs, and I'm parsing that in the get_status() method. The original purpose of that part of the module was to facilitate writing code to tell what condition or job might be holding up another job.

The CA::AutoSys module on CPAN does get information straight from the AutoSys database.