Refreshing of Director

mukejee · Post by **mukejee** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:29 am

Is there any way to avoid the refreshing of director for some times while running the job for a long time

Sainath.Srinivasan · Post by **Sainath.Srinivasan** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:17 am

Tools -> Options

Set higher value for refresh interval.

PS : Post in appropriate section

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:51 am

Right, set the interval higher or turn the refresh off altogether. And on the off chance you think you need to leave the Director open after starting a job until it completes - you don't.

JKenklies · Post by **JKenklies** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:01 am

I'd like to turn the automatic refreshing off, but in tools>options i have only the possibility to set the interval to sth. between 2 and 65 seconds, but how can I disable it?

Pagadrai · Post by **Pagadrai** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:06 am

Check with the Env Variables

APT_MONITOR_TIME and
APT_MONITOR_SIZE

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:28 am

Close Director.

Minimizing Director comes close. But it's not as good as closing it.

Yes I'm serious. Every Director refresh is effectively a request back to the server to "stop what you're doing and give me an update". If Director is not running, these interruptions don't occur.

JKenklies · Post by **JKenklies** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:30 am

Thank you. I searched the Documentation and it sais I have to set the variables using the DS Administrator. But I cannot find any of that variables there and if I try to add APT_MONITOR_TIME, I get an error message that sais "An environment variable of that name already exists". I also searched the systems environment variables. I have full access to the system. What can I do?

We are running Ascential DataStage 7.5 on Win 2003 Server.

PhilHibbs · Post by **PhilHibbs** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:15 am

JKenklies wrote:I'd like to turn the automatic refreshing off, but in tools>options i have only the possibility to set the interval to sth. between 2 and 65 seconds, but how can I disable it?

Later versions of Director no longer have this check box, but you can still disable it in the registry. Open Notepad, save a file called "stoprefresh.reg" with this contents, and double-click it:

Code: Select all

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ascential Software\DataStage Client\Director]
"StopRefresh"="1"

Or, just find the right place using Regedit and enter it manually if you are comfortable with that.

You might need to pick a fight with your desktop support administrators if they've locked you down tighter than a duck's... er... feathers.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:05 am

PhilHibbs wrote:Later versions of Director no longer have this check box

Really, I wonder why they decided to do away with that.

Does "later versions" mean 8 and up?

JKenklies · Post by **JKenklies** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:10 am

Does "later versions" mean 8 and up?

In 7.5, i don't see it...

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:12 am

Hmmm... I certainly saw it up through 7.5.2.

PhilHibbs · Post by **PhilHibbs** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:19 am

I'm running 7.5.1.A and I see it, but a colleague was running 7.5.2 and he didn't have the option so I made the .reg file for him.

p.s. why is General the wrong section? Director is for both server and parallel, isn't it?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:36 am

Yes, we're fine with this discussion here. Questions about the client tools, Sequence jobs, generic DataStage questions and the like are all best placed here.

And now that I ponder it, all I can swear to is it still being there in 7.5.1a. I only had 7.5.2 installed for a few of days on a test Itanium server before they reclaimed the hardware so perhaps never noticed that option being gone.