DSSetUserStatus function use??

[LavanyaRamesh007]

Hi I want to know the use of DSSetUserStatus function. Is it talking abt the status of job like -> abort, running, success or is it something else.
In my job it is used as a Transform, that means we are calling it for every record in the table. How does it reads the status of records??

SETUSERSTATUS(lnk_SDN_PRGM_CNTRL.FILTER_CLAUSE)
Call DSSetUserStatus(Arg1)
Ans = @NULL
RETURN (ANS)

Plz explain

[ray.wurlod]

You're completely on the wrong track.

Each job has a "user status area" into which the DSSetUserStatus() function can put a value.

That value can subsequently retrieved, even after the job has finished, either through a Job activity's $UserStatus activity variable, or by calling the DSGetJobInfo() function from the DataStage API.

The user status area is completely unrelated to the execution status of jobs, stages or links.

[chulett]

Complete overkill to call it more than once and, as noted, it has nothing to do with the status of the job. It's just an area that can be used to stash user-defined information that any other process can retrieve anytime later.