User Status

Raftsman · Post by **Raftsman** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:58 pm

Could someone please provide an example on how I might setup the userstatus variable and populate it. I have researched the guide and forum to no avail.

Thanks in advance.

P.s. I will be using the variable further on in a job sequence.

narasimha · Post by **narasimha** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:11 pm

You can set the user status for a job using DSSetUserStatus.
You could build a small routine around this and call it for setting the userstatus of that job.

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Call DSSetUserStatus(Arg1) 
Ans = 0

Once you have set the UserStatus, you can refer it in the following jobs in your Job Sequence, using JobName.$UserStatus

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:14 pm

Huh... quite a number of posts on the subject that a search should turn up. This one, for example.

Raftsman · Post by **Raftsman** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:59 pm

I created a routine and tried to call it in the derivation of the stage variable, I kepp getting told that my routine doesn't exist. Is there an environment variable that needs to be turned on

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:26 pm

The ability to use DSSetUserStatus() only exists in server jobs, the BASIC Transformer stage or server shared containers. It is not possible from parallel jobs.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:37 pm

Yah, except for that it should work fine.

Raftsman · Post by **Raftsman** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:46 pm

What are my options if this is not possible. I thought I could use the SetUserStatus to store my variable to be used later in the Job Sequence Stream. I guess I am back to storing the values in a sequential file.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:54 pm

It IS possible. Just put a server job in your job sequence stream.

Raftsman · Post by **Raftsman** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:09 pm

Is there a way to setup a server job with the PX version. We never had the server version. I checked the NEW program function and it only has the parallel job creation option.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:28 pm

OK, your site has not licensed server jobs. They have a server licence; they've just decided not to use it. So your next best approach is to use a parallel job that includes a BASIC Transformer stage, and invoke the routine from that. Make sure that the BASIC Transformer stage - indeed the whole job - executed in sequential mode in one processing node - whether using a node pool or a one-node configuration file to achieve this.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:07 pm

ray.wurlod wrote:OK, your site has not licensed server jobs. They have a server licence; they've just decided not to use it.

That's just crazy talk!

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:07 am

Perhaps, but I've seen it at three separate sites.

Raftsman · Post by **Raftsman** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:30 am

I checked our license structure and we do have the server version. If I install the server version, will it be a separate program icon or will it appear when I open up the NEW dialog box.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:21 am

The latter.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:12 pm

There's nothing to install. All you have to do is license it. All the pieces are already in place.