Identifying and restarting crashed jobs
After the DSHARestart tool finishes, restart jobs by using the dsjob tool.
About this task
- Crashed/Restartable. You can run these job sequences from where they stopped, or reset and run them.
- Crashed. You must reset these jobs before you can run them.
Procedure
Use any of the following tools to identify jobs
that are
in a crashed/restartable or crashed state.
- The dsjob tool
- To use the dsjob tool:
- Log in to the computer that hosts the engine tier. Use an account with administrator or IBM® InfoSphere® DataStage® user privileges.
- Change to the directory that contains the dsenv file. This directory is specified in the $DSHOME environment variable. By default, the directory is /opt/IBM/InformationServer/Server/DSEngine.
- Source the dsenv file:
. dsenv
- Run the dsjob tool. Specify the -status option
with a value of
96
.dsjob –ljobs –status 96 project
- To restart checkpointed job sequences that are in the crashed/restartable state,
specify the -mode option with a value of
RESTART
, and specify the job sequence.dsjob –run –mode RESTART project jobsequence
- The IBM InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage® Director client
- To use the InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage Director client, start the client and view jobs. Look for jobs where the Status column reads Crashed or Crashed/Restartable.
- The C or DSBasic Job Control API DSRunJob function.
- For information about the C or DSBasic Job Control API DSRunJob function, see the IBM InfoSphere DataStage documentation.