Creating and managing jobs in a project

You create jobs to run assets or files in tools in a project.

When you create a job you define the properties for the job, such as the name, definition, environment runtime, schedule, and notification specifications on different pages. You can run a job immediately or wait for the job to run at the next scheduled interval.

Viewing jobs

You can view jobs on the Jobs page in the project.

Each time a job is started, a job run is created, which you can monitor and use to compare with the job run history of previous runs. You can view detailed information about each job run, job state changes, and job failures in the job run log.

You can view all jobs across all projects. See Viewing all jobs across projects.

Creating a job

How you create a job depends on the asset or file.

Job creation options for operational assets or files
Asset or file	Create job in tool	Create job from the Assets page	Create job automatically	More information
Data Refinery flow	✓	✓		Creating jobs in Data Refinery
SPSS Modeler flow	✓	✓		Creating jobs in SPSS Modeler
Masking flow		✓		Creating a masking flow job from the Assets page
DataStage flow	✓	✓	✓	Creating jobs in DataStage
IBM Match 360	✓			Creating jobs in IBM Match 360
Notebook created in the Notebook editor	✓	✓		Creating jobs in the Notebook editor
Metadata import			✓	Metadata import jobs
Metadata enrichment			✓	Creating metadata enrichment jobs
Data quality rule	✓	✓	✓	Creating jobs for running data quality rules
Pipelines	✓			Creating jobs for Pipelines

Automatically created jobs

Some jobs are created automatically at the time that the asset is created in a project and listed on the Jobs page of the project. You can view the job run details, change job settings, run the job manually, and delete the job from the Jobs page.

For metadata import or metadata enrichment jobs, you can change job settings, run the job manually, delete the job, and edit the job settings from the Assets page. You can't edit job settings for a metadata import or metadata enrichment job from the Jobs page.

Job scheduling options

You can configure a job to repeat on a set schedule.

You can't change the time zone for the job schedule. You must set your job schedule in your web browser's time zone. Then, the schedule is converted to the time zone of the compute node where your job runs.

Note: Your scheduled job can appear differently if your web browser’s time zone is set to your local time zone during Daylight Saving Time (DST). For example, your scheduled job appears at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Zone (EST) daily corresponding to 8:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When your local time zone changes to Eastern Daylight time zone (EDT), your scheduled job continues to run at 8:00 PM (UTC), which appears as 4:00 PM (EDT) daily.

An API key is generated when you create a scheduled job, and future runs use this API key. If you didn't create a scheduled job but choose to modify one, an API key is generated for you when you modify the job and future runs use this API key.

You can specify the following properties of the job schedule:

Frequency: You can choose to run the job with a frequency of by minute, hour, day, week, or month.; If you select by minute, with the value of n, the job runs at the start of the hour, and then at every multiple of n. For example, if you specify a value of 11, the job runs at 0, 11, 22, 33, 44 and 55 minutes of each hour.
Start of schedule: You can set a start date and time. The job starts to run at the first multiple of n of the hour that occurs after the start time that you specify. For example, if you enter 10:24, and you set the job to repeat every 14 minutes, then your job runs at 10:42, 10:56, 11:00, 11:14. 11:28, 11:42, 11:56, and so on.
Exclude weekdays: You can specify which days to skip. If you exclude certain weekdays, the job might not run as you expect. The job might run at unexpected times because of a discrepancy between the time zone of the user who creates the schedule, and the time zone of the compute node where the job runs.
End of schedule: You can set an end date and time.

Creating jobs from the Assets page

You can create a job to run an asset from the project's Assets page.

Required permissions: You must have an Editor or Admin role in the project.

Restriction:

You cannot run a job by using an API key from a service ID.

To create jobs for a listed asset from the Assets page of a project:

Select the asset from the section for your asset type and choose New job from the Menu icon with the lists of options at the end of the table row.
Optional. Define the job details by entering a name and a description.
If you can select Setting, specify the settings that you want for the job.
If you can select Configure, choose an environment runtime for the job. Depending on the asset type, you can optionally configure more settings, for example environment variables or script arguments.

To avoid accumulating too many finished job runs and job run artifacts, set how long to retain finished job runs and job run artifacts like logs or notebook results. You can either select the number of days to retain the job runs or the last number of job runs to keep.
Optional. On the Schedule page, you can configure a one-time or repeating schedule. See Job scheduling options.
Optional. Select to see notifications for the job. You can select the type of alerts to receive.
Review the job settings. Then, create the job and run it immediately, or create the job and run it later.

Managing jobs

You can view all of the jobs that exist for your project from the project's Assets page. With Admin or Editor role for the project, you can view and edit the job details. You can run jobs manually and you can delete jobs. With Viewer role for the project, you can only view the job details. You can't run or delete jobs with Viewer role.

To view the details of a specific job, click the job. From the job's details page, you can do the following actions:

View the runs: See runs for the current job and the status of each run. If a run failed, you can select the run and view the log tail or download the entire log file to help you troubleshoot the run. A failed run might be related to a temporary connection or environment problem. Try running the job again. If the job still fails, you can send the log to Customer Support.
Edit job settings: Edit settings by clicking Edit job. For example, you can change schedule settings or to pick another environment template.
Run the job manually: Run the job by clicking the Run icon from the job's action bar. You can start a scheduled job based on the schedule and on demand.
Delete the job: Delete the job by clicking the Delete from the job's action bar.

Editing jobs in a tool

If you can create a job within a tool, you can also view and edit job settings that are associated with an asset in the tool.