Dependancy Checks
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 6:49 am
All,
We currently don't have a distributed systems scheduler, but working on it, and we are trying to set dependancies between Mainframe Jobs and DataStage. Right now we can use FTP's to trigger things back and forth, but that is a lot of work. We were thinking of using tables, where a MF job would set a flag indicating it is done processing and DS would read the table for that process flag and check to see if it can process (kind of like the Wait for File). I believe I can read the table and then do a NAP in DS to wait and then read the file again, however, I am assuming that I would need to do this in Job control, but don't know how to code a Table Read in DS BASIC. Can anyone help or have a different idea of how to do this? Thanks.
JB
We currently don't have a distributed systems scheduler, but working on it, and we are trying to set dependancies between Mainframe Jobs and DataStage. Right now we can use FTP's to trigger things back and forth, but that is a lot of work. We were thinking of using tables, where a MF job would set a flag indicating it is done processing and DS would read the table for that process flag and check to see if it can process (kind of like the Wait for File). I believe I can read the table and then do a NAP in DS to wait and then read the file again, however, I am assuming that I would need to do this in Job control, but don't know how to code a Table Read in DS BASIC. Can anyone help or have a different idea of how to do this? Thanks.
JB