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Hello All,

My requirement is:

To get the value of User defined environment variable for a project in the UNIX box.

For e.g.:
1. I have defined a variable Log_Dir having value /user/spool/myproject/logdir in the administrator.
2. I am using this variable in the job and have given the value in job as $PROJDEF.
3. I want to run the job from UNIX using dsjob command. I want to use the value "/user/spool/myproject/logdir" in my batch run script.

I could see that if we use the command below it will give me "$PROJDEF":

dsjob -paraminfo project_name job_name parameter_name

Is there a way I can get the actual value (/user/spool/myproject/logdir) stored in administrator?

Your help is appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,
Ajith GK

If you want the project default value when the job runs, don't mention the parameter name when you run the job from UNIX. Let it take the default.

If you want to replace the default when running the job, use the -param option.
dsjob -run -param Log_Dir=/user/spool/myproject/logdir projname jobname

To recover the value that was used, whether it was substituted for $PROJDEF or in the run request, you need to look at the job log. The "job started" entry shows the parameter values that were actually used for the run.

Hello All,

Thank you for all the replies.

I think my requirement was not mentioned/understood clearly. Let me restate it.

1. I have defined a variable Log_Dir having value /user/spool/myproject/logdir in the administrator.
2. I am creating a script which is different from the one used to run the job from UNIX.

Say, the script is:

SCRIPT_NAME=`basename $0`
JobName=$1

LOG_DIR= Here I want to assign the value that is there in the administrator.

In short, I want to obtain the actual value defined in the administrator using a combination of Orchestrate and UNIX commands.

Hence, the reason I mentioned that "dsjob -paraminfo project_name job_name parameter_name" will give me the value "$PROJDEF". What I want is "user/spool/myproject/logdir" assigned to the LOG_DIR variable in the UNIX script.

Let me know if you could help me in the same.

to read the value defined in administrator - you have to go to your project in unix and there will be a file - DSParams. If you read the file for your parameter name you can get the value defined in administrator

Thank you Mahesh! That did the trick.

Thanks everyone who responded to the question.