Jobs visible in Director but not Designer

ureddy · Post by **ureddy** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 2:45 pm

Hi All,

We just got the DataStage access and when we logged into DataStage Designer there are no jobs in repository. But I can see the jobs in DataStage Director. When we opened the Designer from Director window we are able to see the jobs in Designer.
Why we are not able to see the jobs when we directly logged into Designer?

Note: I refreshed the repository in Designer but no luck.

Thanks,
Ureddy

UCDI · Post by **UCDI** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 3:09 pm

Hmm. This sounds like a configuration error of some sort... like the service/connection that populates the repository is not quite working. But I don't know how to fix it. I initially had some other ideas but if you can see the jobs from the director login, they are not correct.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 3:28 pm

This is a classic example of... something... I can't quite recall at the moment. I've been there when things show up in the Director but not the Designer and I recall having to... rebuild the project indexes? Something with everyone needing to be out of the project with nothing running before you run the fix or it makes it worse.

Edited to add: this seems to be one example pf what I was thinking of...

viewtopic.php?t=91470

ureddy · Post by **ureddy** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 4:06 pm

yes you are correct Chulett. I am getting the same issue as what is there in the link you have provided. I will ask the administrator to rebuild the Index and the funny thing is when we asked for the Admin for the reason why we are not able to see the datastage jobs he suggested to check the datastage manual how to open jobs in datastage designer.

Thank you all for you help.

IBM Analytics Champion 2009 - 2020 · Post by **asorrell** » Sat Dec 10, 2016 4:33 pm

Depending on which release of 8 you are on, you can use a variation of SyncProject to resolve the problem as well. Earlier versions of 8 require you to contact customer service to get a downloaded version.

qt_ky · Post by **qt_ky** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 11:28 am

See my posts under this topic for more info on how each client populates its views.

viewtopic.php?t=155087&highlight=syncproject

In addition to the above replies, depending on your version, we also ran into defect where things get out of sync and none of the variety of utilities, re-indexing, or sync project commands would fix it. Once we installed the patch, the problem was prevented from happening again. I am searching on the details.

qt_ky · Post by **qt_ky** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 11:38 am

For what it may be worth to help the next person or as a heads-up when you upgrade... We ran into a similar scenario on 11.3.x:

- Director and Designer views were out of sync.
- Running the DS.REINDEX ALL command did not help.
- Running the SyncProject command with the -Fix option did not help either.
- Found info about JR53797 on IBM Support Portal technote:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg1JR53797
- Opened a PMR with IBM Support to obtain the patch because it was not on Fix Central at that time
- The patch prevents future sync problems but does not fix existing
- Obtained uvsh/dssh steps to manually fix the problem after applying the patch

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 12:21 pm

qt_ky · Post by **qt_ky** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 1:49 pm

In a strange way, yes! Much fun. :D