DS.SCHED: Job Scheduled but not started.

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:43 pm

Hi DSXians,

JobSequence is scheduled from datastage scheduler. It used to run daily. The first entry in the log usually be

DS.SCHED: Started at: 22:30:02 21 SEP 2006, directory <Project>
JobNumber=81, TraceLevel=0/50, JobInstance=2

But last night, this is the only entry available and the job was not executed. So the job was been executed manually in morning. Other jobs which were scheduled, ran ok.

I could see, Craig mentioning the same issue, some years back. Is there any fix for this.

Thanks in Advance.

kcbland · Post by **kcbland** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:32 am

On unix it's just a cron tab entry, so if cron is active it should have started the job. Any chance the Sequence did something like a checkpoint restart and did nothing?

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:43 am

Thanks Kenneth,
I was wondering for the same reason. There is a log in DataStage, which assures that the Cron has executed the job, but job didnt have any further log. Other that that single entry. And started as expected from next day of the schedule.
Even for check point restart, atlest the environment variable settings, Job Start/Stop log should be available.

kduke · Post by **kduke** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:56 am

If cron fails then you should get an email saying what happened.

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:46 pm

Thank Kim.
I dont guess, Cron has failed. Because, there is a single log entry at the scheduled time.
This is very similar to this issue stated by Craig in this post.
http://dsxchange.com/viewtopic.php?t=85 ... c92ba1961b

The topic name is "DS Job Schedual" (I dont this the link will work even if I add www to it)

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:43 am

Nice to see Craig back from Vaccation. Let me wait, if he has some updates on this.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:56 am

Unfortunately, no. It was an issue I'd seen in the past but haven't had it reoccur in quite some time. When I reported it to Ascential support way back when, they were as baffled as I was. As noted in the other linked thread (which does work, btw, if you add 'www' to it) it went away all on its own without us doing or changing anything. Very frustrating.

About all I could suggest at this point would be to report it to Support and see if they've gotten any clues about it in the intervening years.

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:34 pm

Support

Btw, even I add www, it asks me for userid and password

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Atleast it works for others.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:56 am

Yah, Support. Sorry. :wink:

The whole link-wants-me-to-log-in thing seems to be about the 'www' part of the URL. If you connect to the site using 'dsxchange.com' then it seems that links will only work for you if they don't contain the 'www.' part. If, like most people I believe, you connect to 'www.dsxchange.com' then any links without the leading 3 dubs won't work for you.

I've found it simplest in that case to right-click on the link to 'copy shortcut' to the clipboard and then paste it into your address bar. After that, you can tweak it so that it works for you before making it go. Or you can take note of the Topic number and tweak your current location's URL to go there...