Properties dialog box - General page

The General page of the Properties dialog box contains the following controls:

• Enable job administration in Director. Click this to enable the Cleanup Job Resources and Clear Status File commands in the Job menu in the InfoSphere® DataStage® Director. Setting this option also enables the Cleanup Job Resources command in the Monitor window shortcut menu in the Director.
• Enable Runtime Column Propagation for Parallel Jobs. If you enable this feature, parallel jobs can handle undefined columns that they encounter when the job is run, and propagate these columns through to the rest of the job. Be warned, however, that enabling runtime column propagation can result in very large data sets.
  Selecting this option makes the following subproperty available:

  • Enable Runtime Column Propagation for new links. Select this to have runtime column propagation enabled by default when you add a new link in an InfoSphere DataStage job. If you do not select this, you will need to enable it for individual links in stage editors when you are designing the job.
• Enable editing of internal references in jobs. Select this to enable the editing of the Table definition reference and Column definition reference fields in the column definitions of stage editors. You can only edit the fields in the Edit Column Metadata dialog box, or by column propagation.

  The Table definition reference and Column definition reference fields identify the table definition and individual columns within that definition that columns have been, that columns have been loaded from. These fields are enabled on the stage editor's Columns tab via the Grid Properties dialog box.

• Share metadata when importing from connectors. This option is selected by default. When metadata is imported using a connector, then the metadata appears in both the shared repository and the project repository.
• Auto-purge of job log. Select this option to enable automatic purging of job log files. When you select this the following subproperty becomes available:
  • Up to previous (job runs). Select this option button to specify the number of jobs to retain in the log. For example, if you specify ten job runs, entries for the last ten job runs are retained.
  • Older than (days). Select this option button to purge jobs which are over the specified number of days old.
• Protect project. Click this to protect the current project. This button is only enabled if you have production manager status. If the project is already protected the button says Unprotect project and you can click it to convert the project back to an ordinary one (again you must have Production Manager status to do this. (Note that, on UNIX systems, only root or the administrative user can currently protect and unprotect projects).
• Environment. Click this to open the Environment Variables dialog box. This enables you to set project-wide default values for environment variables.
• Generate operational metadata. Select this option to have parallel and server jobs in the project generate operational metadata by default. You can override this setting in individual jobs if required.
• Queue. Select the default workload management queue for this project. If you do not specify a default queue for the project, the workload management default queue is used for jobs that do not specify a queue.