DSJ.JOBSTATUS

[datastage]

I'm seeing conflicting information in my Server Job Developer's Guide and the compiled help module for DataStage Designer.

The pdf document says DSJS.RESET, DSJS.RUNFAILED, and DSJS.RUNNING are statuses for 'a job that is in progress'. It says DSJS.RUNOK, DSJS.RUNWARN, DSJS.STOPPED, DSJS.VALFAILED, DSJS.VALOK, DSJS.VALWARN are statuses for 'jobs that are not running'.

The compiled help doesn't have the DSJS.RESET and DSJS.RUNFAILED as jobs that are running, so can I assume this is just a mistake in the Server Job Developer's Guide? I'm curious if there is any reason why a Reset or Failed job would have any differences from the other stopped statuses that would affect coding with thoses statuses.

Thanks,

[datastage]

Also,

how, with the DSJS statuses, do you differentiate between a sequencer that is 'Aborted' versus 'Aborted/Restartable' when using checkpoints?

Thanks,

[ray.wurlod]

The pdf document says DSJS.RESET, DSJS.RUNFAILED, and DSJS.RUNNING are statuses for 'a job that is in progress'. It says DSJS.RUNOK, DSJS.RUNWARN, DSJS.STOPPED, DSJS.VALFAILED, DSJS.VALOK, DSJS.VALWARN are statuses for 'jobs that are not running'.

That's just wrong. The only status that a job that is in progress can have is DSJS.RUNNING.
DSJS.FAILED shows as "Aborted" in Director status view, DSJS.RESET shows as "Has been reset". While a job is running, whether in normal, validate or being reset mode, its status is DSJS.RUNNING.
I suspect that the manual was trying to differentiate between status values that warrant a reset and those that don't, but it didn't do a good job of that either.

I don't know, off the top of my head, the answer to the checkpoints question. Is there anything useful in the online help for DSGetJobInfo()?