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I have a job that is marked as a muti-instance job (in the job properties). The job executes without any problems. However, when I try to invoke another instance of the job, it does not allow it (job is already running message). In the Director, the run button is greyed out.

Do I have to set this option somewhere else?

Make sure you are filling out the Invocation ID field when running it, otherwise it is just running as a 'normal' job.

A different invocation id than the one that is already running.

Hi All.


Where do you set the invocation id in the job to run it as multi instance job.

Thank you,

Under job properties tab. You have the check-box for this purpose.

If you have indeed checked the box on the job properties named "Allow Multiple Instance" and have recompiled the job then you should see a drop down with a title called "Invocation Id" on the same tab as the parameters when you run the job. At this point you can assign an invocation id.

And just to finish beating this little horsey...

If you are running the job outside of the GUI (via 'dsjob' for instance) supply the Invocation ID as a 'dot seperated' value after the job name. For example, run 'Jobname.ID' rather than 'Jobname'.

Thanks very much for the replies...I'm a bit embarassed (The option was there all the time. I guess we all need to look a little harder at the screen sometimes...)