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by maddog
Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:13 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Datastage 7.1 Server Job hangs when reading a named pipe.
Replies: 5
Views: 1747

Thanks again for your reply.

The script that writes the pipe is working. If I issue a Unix command that reads the pipe(e.g. wc), the pipe is emptied and the script exits with good return.
by maddog
Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Datastage 7.1 Server Job hangs when reading a named pipe.
Replies: 5
Views: 1747

Thanks for the reply

Timeout set to 60. I expected the job to abort when limit was reached. It did not. Why doesn't it read the named pipe? Is there another time out setting such as in the read stage on the format tab where the settings:

Wait for writer timeout = 0
Read timeout = 0

Should these be set as well?
by maddog
Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:04 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Datastage 7.1 Server Job hangs when reading a named pipe.
Replies: 5
Views: 1747

Datastage 7.1 Server Job hangs when reading a named pipe.

I have a shell script that writes a named pipe. I have a Server Job to read the named pipe. The server job has the performance options to enable row buffering checked , the Inter process radio button selected, and the Timeout(sec) parameter is set to 60. The shell script is not started by a before j...