Variables not applying

Question

I'm new to using ZfS and I have a question about ZfS variables that I
hope someone can give me an answer to.
I'm deploying application objects with ZfS and I am trying to get custom
macros within the application objects to be written by the subscriber
when I deploy the objects via ZfS. However, when I deploy the objects to
the subscriber the macros in the app object are not modified. They are
whatever the source app object says they are. I tested this about 6
weeks ago and I thought it worked so, I'm a little puzzled to why it
isn't now. Maybe I just imagined it. :)
I've created the variables for the subscriber and if I go to the server
and type "showvars" I see the macros I specified in the subscriber along
with the built-in ones.
[Example]
Subscriber variable name: CONTEXT
Subscriber variable value: second_ou.first_ou.organization
App Object variable name (Macro): CONTEXT
App Object variable value: Left blank or set to context of
distributer or set to "%CONTEXT%"
I've looked at the documentation but have not seen anything specific to
variables for application objects with the exceptions tot he references
to SOURCE_PATH and DESTINATION_PATH variables.
Hopefully someone can shed some light on this by highlighting the steps
needed for this to work.
TIA
Kirk

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