Creating individual .DSX files for my 800+ jobs

[laiko]

We would like to check in all our DS jobs to CVS. How can I create individual DSX files for all the jobs? -- well, apart from doing it one-by-one in Manager
Thanks in advance..

[nagarjuna]

Check this post :

viewtopic.php?t=113429&highlight=cutter

[chulett]

That or one-by-one in a scripted loop.

[laiko]

Check this post :

viewtopic.php?t=113429&highlight=cutter

I tried to use this script to create individual .DSX files for each job inside the category which I exported. When I did the export, I only checked 'Job Designs' as Component and 'By Category' as Option. When I ran the 'perl DSX_Cutter.pl filename' where filename is my category .dsx file, it created the individual .dsx files, but filenames end in '?.dsx'. I renamed the files by removing the '?' . When I tried to import the files, I get an error 'No Objects found for import' - and nothing gets imported.

What did I do wrong????

[chulett]

Hard to say... what's actually *in* the .dsx files the cutter created?

[laiko]

It has the header (which is also in the category .dsx) + its own individual scripts. Something like:

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BEGIN HEADER
   CharacterSet "CP1252"
   ExportingTool "Ascential DataStage Export"
   ToolVersion "4"
   ServerName "My_Server"
   ToolInstanceID "My_Project"
   MDISVersion "1.0"
   Date "2009-05-28"
   Time "10.43.29"
   ServerVersion "7.5.1.A"
END HEADER
BEGIN DSJOB
   Identifier "My_Job"
  ... 
END DSJOB

[chulett]

So I assume the ". . ." is where you hacked out all of the job itself, yes? As a test, export this single job manually from the GUI and compare the two output files. That should help give us a clue as to what may be missing.