IBM Streams 4.2

Working with jobs in IBM Streams Studio

Jobs represent running SPL applications. You can work with jobs in the Streams Explorer view in Streams Studio.

About this task

You can see the jobs that are running on an instance in the Streams Explorer view. Each job contains a list of processing elements (PEs), and each PE contains its ports. You can check the health of your application. For example, you can verify that all PEs and the connections between PEs are healthy. For more detail, you can view the Properties view.

Within the Streams Explorer view, you can download job-related logs in to the workspace. The downloaded logs are stored in a project in your workspace. After they are downloaded, you can use Eclipse search functions to look for log entries in the logs. You can also view the downloaded logs in the Console view, wherein you can use regular expressions to filter log entries.

You can also manage your jobs from a Streams instance in the Streams Explorer view. For example, you can submit and cancel jobs.

Procedure

To see the jobs that are running in an instance:

  1. From the Streams Explorer view, expand the Streams Jobs folder.
  2. Right-click on a job to perform a command.
  3. To see the properties or contents of a job, select the Goto job command.
    1. Open the Properties view to view the properties for the job.
    2. Open the folder for the job to view the operators and PEs in the job.

What to do next

To view log files, see Log files.