CVS Integration: Weird code added to jobnames

Druid_Elf · Post by **Druid_Elf** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 11:43 am

Hi all,
We are currently integrating our datastage 8.7 code into CVS. We are currently using Information Server Manager to do this.
After checking in the first project we noticed that each job got an additional extension in the name
eg: Load_CSV_Department becomes Load_CSV_Department_178dade9.pjb in CVS.
Does anybody know what this additional tag means and why it has been added ?
This poses some drawbacks to our release scripts.

Thanks for any feedback

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 4:42 pm

pjb = parallel job
sjb = server job
qjb = sequence job

There are lots of other tags (suffixes) for the other kinds of repository objects. I won't bother to list them all here.

But they're not "weird".

IBM Analytics Champion 2009 - 2020 · Post by **asorrell** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:41 pm

Come on.. even you have to admit "qjb" is a little bit weird...

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:56 pm

"s" had already been taken. "q" was the next available consonant in the word "sequence".

Druid_Elf · Post by **Druid_Elf** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 12:24 am

sorry you misunderstood.
It's not the extension which is odd (although the naming convention is weird) it's about the alfanumeric code added to jobname
eg: Load_CSV_Department_12aFef.pjb
Originally the 12aFef is not part of the jobname, but during check in server manager changes the name of the job.
I was wondering why this is happening.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 2:02 am

Uniqueness, against the next time you export the same object.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:50 am

Basically the 'version number'.