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Nope - failing again. Will report back when 8.1 is installed.

Environment variable appears to work fine and looks like a valid workaround for me. I am still going to get the server upgraded to 8.1 though.

Many thanks for all your help.

Dave

I'll try that, thanks Mike.

Does this only affect 8.0.1? I've asked our admins to upgrade to 8.1 in the hope that that will fix the problem.

Wow, thanks for spotting that. I will have a full read through and check out what patch level we are at and go from there.

Will update thread when resolution discovered.

Many thanks again.

Hi, It might be overloaded. I'm spawning 2 instances of the same sequence at the same time, and each of those runs a script which runs some java code - though none is particularly intensive. In fact, from reviewing the logs from the code that is run, the code starts at 2009-04-23 11:07:45.094 and fi...

Hi all, I'm running with some sequences that are running in parallel with the multiple instance option checked. However, about 50% of the time, the sequence fails with a timeout after about 15-20 seconds. The log messages are below. All references I've found to the DSWaitForJob relate to a default t...

Yes, that's right, sorry - that works too.

Many thanks for that. I did have a search through the forums before posting but couldn't see what might be relevant. I tried using the GenerateJobGuid.$CommandOutput<1> syntax but is errors with Expected: expression so I just used field(convert(@FM,',', GenerateJobGuid.$CommandOutput),',',1) which w...

Hi, I've got an Execute Command activity called GenerateJobGuid that runs uuidgen which outputs a 36 character guid to the console. I've then got a Job Activity that requires a String parameter called jobGuid. I have set this value to be GenerateJobGuid.$CommandOutput but when I run the job I get th...

If you mean create a job parameter for each job that's different, then not really. The job will be run by the scheduler and each time it needs to be different. I think I've got a workaround that uses a sequence that runs a command line activity to run uuidgen. I can then use that as a parameter to t...

Hi, I'm trying to create a chain of Java Transform activities in DS 8.1 and need each Java Transform activity to have access to a common id that is unique across multiple jobs invoked by DataStage (i.e. a unique job id). I need to know this at initialisation of the stage, i.e. before the data starts...

Hi Ernie,

Many thanks for your help. I agree that the API is quite sparse. I'm maintaining a context across each stage as XML in a column on the links so I'll use that to track an index of how far along the job it is instead of the name.

Cheers,

Dave

Basically, I'm chaining together a number of Java transformer stages as the majority of the work that my client has done for processing the data in the past has been done in Java. A number of the Java stages are generic and reusable and some are repeated across the job. Each step is named appropriat...

I thought the transformer just manipulated data and pushed the new data onto the output link. I didn't know there was selection. What I want is the inverse of the funnel, i.e. a selective demultiplexer. No transformation of data. The same data will go one whichever link is selected. How would the tr...

There's nothing in the Java API to pull them out. I assume that I can just wrap the function up in # in the properties like

stageName=#DSGetStageInfo(DSJ.ME, DSJ.STAGENAME)#

Is that valid? I will try when back in work tomorrow.

Many thanks.