How can I set DSUserStatus in a PX job?

[rstemphowski]

How can I set the DSUserStatus in a PX job then reference it in a sequence 'Nested Condition' stage?

[JRodriguez]

rstemphowski

You should set the User Status inside the job ( Is the same for server and parallel jobs).

You can interrogate the value of the User Status in any point - downstream - in the sequence after the job activity that call the job


Each time the job is execute the User Status value will be refreshed

[JRodriguez]

rstemphowski

You should set the User Status inside the job ( Is the same for server and parallel jobs).

You can interrogate the value of the User Status in any point - downstream - in the sequence after the job activity that call the job


Each time the job is execute the User Status value will be refreshed

[Mike]

Can you expand on how it is the same for server and parallel jobs? Can it be set in a parallel job without using a BASIC routine and the BASIC transformer stage? Is there a C API call to set the UserStatus property for a job?

Mike

[ray.wurlod]

There does not appear to be a C-callable function (or a C++ class) equivalent to DSSetUserStatus().

Before-job and after-job subroutines for parallel jobs are still written in DataStage BASIC, so you have the opportuity there to call DSSetUserStatus() directly. If, as I suspect you do, you wish to capture some value from the data flow, you need to store that somewhere (a file perhaps) and access the value from the file, either in an after-job subroutine or in an Execute Command actvity.

A recent DSXchange Learning Center webinar on files and DataStag job sequences dealt, in part, with reading files using job sequence techniques. DSXchange portal is the place to find webinars. If it's not there, contact editor@dsxchange.com to see how you can get a copy.