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Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:40 am**

I have been looking for a way to get the current DataStage version from a DataStage routine but haven't found anything in the API or documentation. Does anyone know of a documented way to get this information?

I am aware that I can use an entry in the UV.ACCOUNT file to get a project's version number and can also get some information through the VOC's "RELLEVEL" or the project home directory file ".dsrel"; but I wanted to write something that will withstand the test of time, especially with the upcoming changes to the underlying structures in DataStage.

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:58 am**

I am not aware of any function call in the API.
However, in DSVERSION.H (in DSINCLUDE) there is the declaration

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EQU DSFullVersionStr      TO "7.5.1.35"

that's fairly reliable. Lots of other version stuff in there too.

The following you might also find interesting. It's from DSR_ESRPROPS.H (again DSINCLUDE). They left out 40 (version 7.1).

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3003: *   Current job version string - must be an integer.
3004: *   The numbers that have been used correspond to these releases:
3005: *   0 = SCT1  ; 1 = SCT2;  2 = FCS (1.0)
3006: *   3 = 1.1
3007: *   4 = 2.0
3008: *   5 = 3.0 (early builds)
3009: *   6 = 3.0 (FCS)
3010: *   7 = 3.1
3011: *   8 = 3.5
3012: *   9 = 3.6 development
3013: *   10= 3.6 (QA and FCS)
3014: *   11= 3.7 (Jakarta)
3015: *   12= 4.0.1 (4.0 NLS)
3016: *   13= 4.1
3017: *   14= 4.0.3
3018: *   15= 4.1.2
3019: *   20= 5.0 (Kobe)
3020: *   22= 5.2.1
3021: *   25= 6.0 (Viper)
3022: *   30= 6.1 (Rattler)
3023: *   35= 7.0 (Twister Alpha)
3024: *   36= 7.0 (Twister)
3025: *   50= 7.5 (Trinity)
3026:
3027: * Note that for major releases, we now increment the version number by
3028: * five, rather than one, to allow some leeway in case a new version
3029: * appears that needs to be slipped in before the major release.
3030:
3031: EQU DSC.CURRENT.JOBVERSION TO "50"
3032:
3033: *   Values for version stamping
3034:
3035: EQU DSC.INITIAL.VERSION TO "0.0.0"

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Reading the current DataStage Version string in a routine

Reading the current DataStage Version string in a routine