How to mark a job as FINISHED

Raju_6609 · Post by **Raju_6609** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:49 am

Hi,

I would like to know is there any commands to mark a job sucessfull ?
ie. Finished

As we do for Stop/Reset ?

-Thanks

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:11 pm

No, there isn't - it will need to achieve that status on its own. And yes, you can Stop a job or Reset one that's been stopped (or aborted) if need be.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 4:55 pm

Why would you want to? What would be the ramifications if you were to mark a job as finished but, in reality, it was still running?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:03 pm

Yes, why are you asking? What problem are you trying to solve?

Raju_6609 · Post by **Raju_6609** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:49 am

thanks for all for your replies.

I am asking this because, take a example that I have a sequenc which calls five underlying jobs. Today If I faced a problem where out of 5 jobs 1 job failed.

Now the status of Sequencer is 'Aborted/Restartable' and also of the job which will be 'Aborted'.

Suppose I fixed it some way and trying dsjob -run command of that job. It go FINISHED.

But my sequencer is sitting with status as 'Aborted/Restartable', which is sure going fail in next run if I dont do reset now. Other way I am searching is to mark this job complete explicitly, by giving status as FINISHED, if there are any means. (Which I feel is right thing to do)

-Let me know If I have not confused you more.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:57 am

No, you have missed one critical point. The restartable job sequence continues to believe that the job in question has aborted (never finished successfully) so will attempt to execute it - and probably succeed if you have fixed the job.

The only legal way around this is to reset or re-compile the job sequence itself, which will clear the checkpoint record that is a part of the job sequence (not a part of the underlying job).

Raju_6609 · Post by **Raju_6609** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:02 am

Thanks Ray.
I sort of understood that we cant make job as FINISHED explicitly. Hence this issue/question is resolved.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:07 am

But one thing you can do is to mark this thread as finished (Resolved). Use the green button at the top of the page.