Invoke more jobs from command line without waiting

sangi1981 · Post by **sangi1981** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:37 am

Hi All,
I have a question.
I want to run more instance of same job in parallel from within a script: I have a loop in which I invoke jobs with dsjob and without option "-wait" and "-jobstatus".

I want that jobs completed before script termination, but I don't know how to verify if job instance terminated.
I though to use wait command but it is not appropriate.

Thanks in advance

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:41 pm

You need to poll interrogating job status until job status is no longer DSJS.RUNNING.

nagarjuna · Post by **nagarjuna** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:48 pm

May be you can write a script to check if you have a process DSD.RUN for that particular job .

sangi1981 · Post by **sangi1981** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:23 am

I changed perspective for this task.
Instead of wait for a dsjob launch to complete, I created a parametric shell script that launch dsjob command.
I exec this script from another, and I apply wait command.
It seems more clean and with minus code to implement for every check.

What do you think about this solution?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:27 am

That seems like a perfectly valid alternative.