"Icing" a Job withing a Sequencer
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:19 pm
We have a "master" sequencer that executes some jobs and bunches of other (nested) Sequencers.
Our issue is that we want to (in Autosys terms) "ice" various jobs on occasion. By "ice", I mean: don't execute the activity, but evaluate (trigger) to "OK" so that downstream jobs are triggered.
We've tried "Validate Only", but have noticed the following (in our environment):
- If JobActivity is set to "Validate Only" for a Server Job that creates and writes to a file, the file is created with no data.
- A Job cannot be "validated" more than once...it must be compiled between runs if the Job Activity for that job is set to "Validate Only"
We've tried "Reset Only", but have noticed the following (in our environment):
- Similar to "Validate Only", a Job cannot be "reset" more than once...it must be compiled between runs if the Job Activity for that job is set to "Reset Only"
We were hoping to write a routine that would compile all Jobs that exist in Job Activity stages with Job Action = "Validate Only", but this metadata doesn't seem to be available.
I'm more familiar with Informatica which handles this "icing" feature of job control much more elegantly (and with no coding AND with robust metadata), but I digress.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Rick
Our issue is that we want to (in Autosys terms) "ice" various jobs on occasion. By "ice", I mean: don't execute the activity, but evaluate (trigger) to "OK" so that downstream jobs are triggered.
We've tried "Validate Only", but have noticed the following (in our environment):
- If JobActivity is set to "Validate Only" for a Server Job that creates and writes to a file, the file is created with no data.
- A Job cannot be "validated" more than once...it must be compiled between runs if the Job Activity for that job is set to "Validate Only"
We've tried "Reset Only", but have noticed the following (in our environment):
- Similar to "Validate Only", a Job cannot be "reset" more than once...it must be compiled between runs if the Job Activity for that job is set to "Reset Only"
We were hoping to write a routine that would compile all Jobs that exist in Job Activity stages with Job Action = "Validate Only", but this metadata doesn't seem to be available.
I'm more familiar with Informatica which handles this "icing" feature of job control much more elegantly (and with no coding AND with robust metadata), but I digress.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Rick