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When I use Job control routine in a Parallel job (coded in DS Basic) does it utilize the underlying parallelism.

Thanks.

No, the Job Control is only executed one time before the body of the job is run, so there is no need for any parallelism.

Suppose I have a scenario where there is nothing (no stages) in the canvas and I am using only DS Basic codes in Job Control to do a specific work.

In that case, will there be any parallelism.

Thanks

Suppose I have a scenario where there is nothing (no stages) in the canvas and I am using only DS Basic codes in Job Control to do a specific work.

In that case, will there be any parallelism.

Thanks

No, the Job Control is only executed 1 time regardless of the APT_CONFIG number of concurrent nodes. Also, you need a "body" in PX jobs (although a dummy row generator to a copy stage is sufficient)

You can have a job with just the job control code and no stages at all. You can actually run a job with SLEEP 10 in the job control and no stages on the canvas. It will wait for 10 seconds and finish successfully.

And it will still not run in parallel.

BugFree wrote:You can have a job with just the job control code...

No, you cannot have a PX job with just a sleep and compile it.

ArndW wrote:

BugFree wrote:You can have a job with just the job control code...

No, you cannot have a PX job with just a sleep and compile it. ...

ArndW i have tried it. It works. But a warning message will be logged "main_program: Step has no operators". I have tried it. I am using 7.5.1A on HPUX.

I tried it as well yesterday and get a compile error at Version 8.

It worked for me. Thats the reason i posted the version. The difference of 0.5 between DataStage 7.5 and 8.0 is making all the difference i guess.