how to update the job version number automatically

Aggie99 · Post by **Aggie99** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:53 am

Can someone help me to figure out how to update the job version number in a datastage job.

My team works on change requests which modify datastage job. Once a datastage job is modified, we will update the job version number to the next value (eg. 50.1.1. to 50.1.2) and release it to prod.

version number is a way we know which version goes in, etc.

thanks in advance.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:39 am

Without a version control system there isn't a way to do it, unfortunately. I haven't looked into what has come out at V8.1, but there might be something there; V8.0x has nothing.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:37 am

I don't have access to a system right now but wasn't it a property of the job itself with the ability to manually change it right there in the Designer?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:31 pm

The new tool in 8.1 (Information Server Manager, command line istool) does not change the job version. It can be changed manually in Designer.

The version number is stored in the ROOT record for the job in DS_JOBOBJECTS. Do not ever change the first component!

Sreenivasulu · Post by **Sreenivasulu** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:51 am

Changing a version 'manually' is fine but how do we go back to the previous version?

I think 'versioncontrol' would be a good feature to be added for further releases.

Regards
Sreeni

abhijain · Post by **abhijain** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 4:00 am

DS doesn't have the version control. One can manually maintain it.

Use of Version Control tool can help to maintain the different versions of the code.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:35 am

DataStage had Version Control until version 7.5.

Information Server Manager in a near future release will be able to interact with source code control systems - directly with ClearCase and CVS, through an interface (API or Eclipse plug-in) to others.