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Hey i need to be able to run a job mutiple times at the same time. So i checked the multiple instance job box in the project properties. I call the job through an executable that calls the the dsjob command. Now I know need to add an invocation id to the job name is there a way to do it from command line or through the project

From the command line just add the InvocationID to the job name with a 'dot' separator - so JobName.ID rather than just JobName.

ok so when i do that i look in the datastage directory under the invocation column it says ID shouldnt an internal ID be displayed here?

If you called "MyJob.Instance" then the displayed instance will be "Instance", there is no other internal name or number.

ok i am still getting the issue -2 job error when running multiple jobs though

Can you elaborate what you did so others can provide better response.

Can you run the same job from Director ?

ok i marked the project to run for multiple instances. In my command line i added .ID to the job name. Then i go to run two jobs at the same time one comes back with a -2 while the other runs. I look in the direct job log window and i only see a entry for the job running not the other job

You need to run "MyJob.ID1" and "MyJob.ID2" if you want them to run in parallel, you cannot run two identical instance names at the same time.

Hi,
The easy way is , Create a sequence with mutiple job activities and call the same job in all job activities with different invocations-ID's so that you can see different logs in director for different Invocation-IDs.

What is meant by this;

ok i marked the project to run for multiple instances.

You marked the job as multi-instance and recompiled it, correct?