Schedule Datastage ETL jobs – Basics

Read about Datastage Scheduler

What is the utility used to schedule the jobs on a UNIX server?

dsjob utility (UNIX commands) are used to schedule datastage jobs. dsjob commands allow us to:

• Start a job (-run)
• Stop a job -stop
• List projects, jobs, stages, links, and parameters
• Set an alias for a job
• Retrieve information
• Access log files (Important )- IBM reference

  dsjob -log [ -info | -warn ] [ -useid ] project job|job_id

• Generate a report

<h2>There are many tools that help scheduling</h2>

• Ascential Director
• AUTOSYS”: Thru autosys u can automate the job by invoking the shell script written to schedule the datastage jobs
  • Autosys is the most popular scheduler
• SeeBeyond,
• ControlM,
• at,
• cron

For more information read – Popular schedulers in Datastage