Know link type in a job per stage

[Obiwon666]

Hi everyone,

I work on a job server (BASIC code) to scan all jobs in a projectto get information about datastage design.
For each job i want to know names of stages presents, names of the links, etc..

I'm really close to get all information i want but i have a trouble with link.
I don't know how to know if a link is a reject.
The function DSGetLinkInfo with DSJ.LINKDESC give the same value for a output link or reject link.

Do you have an idea?

[ray.wurlod]

Do some research - use help or the DataStage BASIC manual. What are the InfoType argument values that may be used with DSGetLinkInfo() function?

[kandyshandy]

Have meaningful naming convention for all links. For e.g. a reject link can have its name as "REJ_........_lnk"

Idea to differentiate a reject link by its name.

[Obiwon666]

@kandyshandy: My goal is to control the naming convention precisely.


I forgot to write that i used the method "listlinktype = DSGetStageInfo (hJob, stagename, DSJ.LINKTYPES)" first.

I can only deduce this:
linktype value = 1: input stream
linktype value = 2: reference stream
linktype value = 3: output stream or reject stream

I also made a test with this code "linkdesc = DSGetLinkInfo(hJob, stagename, linkname, DSJ.LINKDESC)".

There is no detailed information given by IBM's documentation and neither in the JOCONTROL.H file.

So i did an another test with the method "Call DSGetLinkMetaData(linksmdata ,jobname, stagename, linkname)".

I find that when no column is given by the array result it could be a reject link but i can't test with RCP mode in my environment to prove this observation.

It could be that ? (linktype=3 and no column description in array result a DSGetLinkMetaData)

[kandyshandy]

I find that when no column is given by the array result it could be a reject link but i can't test with RCP mode in my environment to prove this observation.

It could be that ? (linktype=3 and no column description in array result a DSGetLinkMetaData)

Can't you disable RCP at your job level?

[Obiwon666]

RCP is disabled at project level.

I do some test with server job it doesn't work.(DSGetLinkMetaData gives no information with job server).

[kandyshandy]

Keeping fighting until you succeed