Calling DS job from unix prompt

videsh77 · Post by **videsh77** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:14 am

I want to start a DataStage job from AIX unix prompt. How can I achieve that?

Sainath.Srinivasan · Post by **Sainath.Srinivasan** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:24 am

Search for 'dsjob'

vinodlakshmanan · Post by **vinodlakshmanan** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:26 am

You have to use the dsjob command. The path for the command is $DSHOME/bin. dsjob -run -mode NORMAL runs the job and dsjob -run -mode RESET resets an aborted job.
See the options which dsjob gives for more options.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:45 am

Or the chapter in the Server Job Developer's Guide that documents the Command Line Interface.

alhamilton · Post by **alhamilton** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:15 am

One thing to keep in mind, dsjob will initiate the job, but won't wait around for it to finish. I use subsequent commands to get the current jobinfo until the job finishes and sleep in between commands.

"dsjob -jobinfo $PROJECT_FOLDER $JOBNAME"

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:21 am

Sure it will - if you tell it to.

There's a -WAIT and a -JOBSTATUS option, depending on what you want passed back when it is done.