Call a DS job from shell script

sachinamr · Post by **sachinamr** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:41 am

How to call a datastage server or parallel job from shell script? And how to pass parameters to it?

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:59 am

Hello Sachinamr,

this subject has been talked about in many threads. You can use a UNIX or Windows CMD program called dsjob to do this. If you call it without parameters it will show you the help options, but it is best to read about it in the documentation.

rkdatastage · Post by **rkdatastage** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:52 am

Hi
you can call ds job from shell script or batch file in windows.
DSjob -run project_name job_name
hope this will work for you

RK

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:08 am

Hello!

In case you are wondering, there is a command line executable called dsjob that you will use from a shell script to run a job. And yes, parameters too.

Search and yea shall find a bazillion posts on the subject. It is also, as Arnd noted, in one of the pdf manuals of all places - the Server Job Developer's Guide, specifically the chapter on the Command Line Interface.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 12:22 am

One thing that's not totally clear (unless you read the entire manual entry) is that you place one -param option for each parameter (not one -param option for the entire command). You can have as many -param options as you require.