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Abort second job activity if first one aborts


I want abort 2nd job activity if 1st job activity aborts due env. issue or manual abortion.

I gone through the triggering option but couldn't get. Can anyone help me ?


Solution

  • OK, You can't abort a job without running it. So you would need to be able to invoke Job 2 with knowledge of Job 1 status (e.g. from activity variable Job1.$JobStatus). This could be used to cause Job 2 to abort.

    The cleanest solution would be a before-job subroutine, which sets its return code to 0 if Job 1's status was DSJS.RUNOK or DSJS.RUNWARN (these are DataStage constants), or to a non-zero value if Job 1's status was DSJS.RUNFATAL or any other value. This is the cleanest approach because the before-job subroutine could write a message to the job log indicating precisely why the job was being aborted.

    A less clean way would be to have a parameter in Job 2 of type, say, Integer (anything other than string), and set its value in the Job Activity using an expression such as If Job1.$JobStatus = DSJS.RUNFATAL Then "" Else 1 - setting a non-string parameter to "" will cause the job to abort with DSJE.PARAMBADVALUE error.