Getting JobStatus in After-Job Subroutine

DSUser2000 · Post by **DSUser2000** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:39 am

How may I obtain the JobStatus from an After-Job Subroutine in DS 7.5 on Unix? I mean getting the "Finished", "Finished(with warnings)", "Aborted" (or something similar in numerical form).
I tried to get it via
DSGetJobInfo(DSJ.ME, DSJ.JOBSTATUS)
but apparently, this always gives 0 as the job hasn't finished yet...is there any possibility or is it just not possible?

pandeesh · Post by **pandeesh** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:46 am

you need JOBINTERIMSTATUS
Check this out: viewtopic.php?t=144286

DSUser2000 · Post by **DSUser2000** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:02 am

Thanks a lot that works so far but it seems like I can't distinguish between a validation run and a normal run with that (never get DSJS.VALOK). Is there a way for doing that?

pandeesh · Post by **pandeesh** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:07 am

Can you explain a little bit?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:29 am

The question is quite clear, however I for one don't have an answer. If you've found that checking the interim status doesn't differentiate between those two end states, I'm not sure how else you would go about it. Not saying it can't be done, just that off the top of my head I don't know how. Never mind the fact that I stopped doing validation runs years ago when you no longer had to do them to create hashed files.

DSUser2000 · Post by **DSUser2000** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:27 am

Yes, chulett understood that absolutely correct. Basically, I don't want my subroutine to run when you just click on "validate" instead of "run" for the job.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:13 am

So, out of curiousity, do you actually do validation runs or is this mostly just an academic question?

DSUser2000 · Post by **DSUser2000** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:35 am

Yes we really do job validation, especially after each automatic deployment but also manually.