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Hello All,
Is there a way to check from command line that a connection could be established from the DataStage clients to Information Server?

We have a validation script to test the health of our ETL infrastructure but in case that a connection can not be established to the clients Production Support team won't be able to do much .. hence the need to add this check if there is way to avoid a manual check

We do check that the dsrpc daemon is up but due to an incident in one non-prod environment we discover that the daemon could be running and is possible that a connection can't established. We also use the Operational Console in case of any failures....

Let me know

I seem to recall that, at one time, you could issue the "dsjob" command from the Windows client command line. You would Need to get that executable (and associated libraries) from the windows DataStage server directories. Once that works, you could issue a query to get job information and parse the response.

I've only got a UNIX Server here, so can't check to see if this still works.

Worst case if you know the IP address and the port you could do your own check from the command line using Windows utilities. While not 100% accurte, it should come Close enough.

The ISA Lite health check verifies this connection, though it's probably overkill for what you require.

The dsjob.exe and dssearch.exe commands should be available on the client tier. That would allow you to test a connection. Use the -jobstatus option with dsjob to have the exit status of dsjob be that of the job that you run.

Thanks to both of you.

My understanding is that dsjob uses a different connection mechanism and the goal is to ensure that a connection via a DS client could be established. We don't have the luxury of recycling the services in the middle of the day

I will explore Ray's suggestions

A good news is that on the new 11.7 version we won't need to worry about it

Thanks to both of you.

My understanding is that dsjob uses a different connection mechanism and the goal is to ensure that a connection via a DS client could be established. We don't have the luxury of recycling the services in the middle of the day

I will explore Ray's suggestions

A good news is that on the new 11.7 version we won't need to worry about it

The only way to be sure is to use a "robot", automated keystroke routines that replace the user actions. We are using Blue Prism for similar work, replacing high-volume, repeated user activity (like acting on data defects that require updates via a user interface).

Good luck.

Datastage Designer does have command line parameters so that you can start without any interaction:
dsdesign.exe /H=<host> /D=<domain> /U=<user> /P=<password <project>
By this, you only need to check if it opened and then close it.

It could also be enough if you check other things which are fully command-line-tools:
- Job export/import using istool: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... ndset.html
- Job Compilation: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... _Line.html
- Generate a job report: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... _Line.html This one also uses dsdesign.exe so it should show a pretty comparable result to the normal client...