How to assign job status into variable in shell programing

[ragunathan13]

Hi....

I Run a DS Job in unix shell programing use "dsjob -run" command. After Execute this command i got "Status code = 0" like. I need to assign that Status code into a variable.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Ragunathan J

[chulett]

What do you mean 'assign that Status code into a variable'? Do you mean have the script return that code as its exit status? Or just use it internally? How are you running a 'DS job in unix shell programming' if your server is on Windows?

Perhaps:

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dsjob -run blah-blah-blah
X=$?
exit $X

For whatever you'd like this X to actually be called. 'X' gets assigned the value of the status code returned by dsjob and then that is passed out as the exit status of the script as an added bonus.

[ragunathan13]

Hi chulett ,

i would like to thank for reply. we r running the dsjobs in the unix command window. It is return job status externally ,My Requirement: the corresponding output will assign as a user defined variable.

for example: i will run the shell progrmm and output of this program generate some status code. i want to assign that status code to a user defined variable like

A=staus code.

if is it possible to do this? if yes please give some idea regarding this.

with regards,
Ragunathan J

[DSguru2B]

If you want the retrieve the status code of the dsjob command then do as Craig advised. And, if you want to retrieve the status code of the job then add -jobstatus to Craigs advised commands. i.e,

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dsjob -run -jobstatus blah-blah-blah 
X=$? 
exit $X

This way you will get a status code of 1 if job is successful, 2 if it finished with warnings, 3 if it aborted, yada yada yada.

[chulett]

if is it possible to do this? if yes please give some idea regarding this.

Pretty sure that's exactly what I gave you.

In my example, your A = my X, with X getting assigned the status code from the dsjob run. If that's not enough then you'll need to explain your problem a little better... like exactly where this assignment should be happening.

[ray.wurlod]

When you use the -jobstatus option, the exit status of dsjob is the exit status of the job that was run. You need to know that for the efficacy of Craig's solution to be explained.