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Thank you so much FranklinE for the details. Here is what we are planning as a part of deployment automation, 1. Maintain dsx files with Design and executables in bitbucket feature branch (which is created from develop branch. Develop branch is created from master branch) 2. After development and un...

Thank you so much FranklinE for your response. In many places I found that deployment in Test environment is based on individual dsx file based and in production it is package based. If we use dsx (design + executables) based deployment on test server, is it ok to use same dsx based deployment for p...

Hello All, Just wanted to understand this option more because of "Where applicable" note. I am planning to use deployment automation scripting on Linux server. On Linux server job compile and dsx export options are not available. Therefore, I am thinking to keep dsx file (design with execu...

Hello All, I got the istool command for creating the package. Here is the one which I have tested, ./istool.sh create package -domain <host name>:<port number> -authfile <authentication file path name> -pkg <package name> -datastage '-includeexecutable -includedependent -base=<host name>/<ds project...

Hello All,

I was looking at this post about CLI options. Can you please send few examples of how this ./istool create package CLI was used to create package based on list of Datastage objects ?

Thanks in advance.

Hi PaulVL, Thanks for the info. I tried your below command with correct values but getting error : Untyped Exception: entry jobList=`$DSHOME/../../Clients/istools/cli/istool.sh import -domain $host:$port -authfile /$userName/.datastage.authfile -archive $isxFile -preview -datastage "$host/$proj...

Hello All,

For deployment automation and source code management I need to extract the object list from the DataStage package. Is there any option to achieve it?

Another question - Is there any server side CLI available in 11.3+ to compile the dsx file on UNIX server?

Thanks in advance.

Below is the command I am using, /lopt/IBM/InformationServer/Clients/istools/cli/istool.sh export -domain xxxxxxxx:9446 -authfile /ldata/mwaas/gif/app/datastage/relmgt/input/xxxxxxxx.af -updatearchive -archive /ldata/mwaas/gif/data/datastage/GSSM/12345-DSR185_TEST/DS2DS/1.0.0/deployment/DSR185_TEST-...

Hello All, I am using istool.sh from command prompt to update the existing ISX file by adding more sets of jobs into it. root ID is able to update the isx file correctly but non-root ID is throwing Error "Export Error : unable to create temporary archive file" This non-root ID has all the ...

Hello All, We are using istool.sh on linux server. We have a requirement to use only Include Designs (NOT Include executables) and then compile the objects on the target server after deployment. We are using istool.sh for our automated deployments. However, we found that post deployment jobs are in ...

Basically, we are looking to automate processes like job export, job import, updating dsx file or DS Metadata table, creation of project, etc. Can we call such commands/processes through web services ?

Hello All, Can we import dsx file (design time info) from unix? I tried below command, /home/dmzjz9y/LocalAmit/mwaas_poc$ dsjob -import GWM J40040_LD_FILE_TO_DB_UPDATED.dsx -OVERWRITE dsjob -import is not supported at this release. Status code = 0 As you see it is not supported even in DS11.3. Can I...

Hello All, I have read that "dsjob" and similar commands can be called using CLI or API, however, just wanted to understand if such commands can be called as a web services? If yes, can you please provide more details ? Basically, we are looking to automate processes like job export, job i...

Thanks everyone for your valuable response and insight. I have gone through the documents and found that IBM Infosphere DataStage has given CLI commands and APIs to achieve some functionality for automation. More or less same thing can be achieved using both the ways. Any recommendation on which one...

Hello All, We are planning to work on PoC for Development Automation using CA Release automation and Chef. One of the question is can we create DataStage job using API or CLI. Can you please throw more light on this? Also do you know where can I find the exhaustive list on what is possible to automa...