DataStage Event Detail

[kvercruy]

Hello,

Does anybody have any idea how much characters/lines can be processed in the Message pane of the Event Detail in DataStage Director?

It seems that the output of a shell script generated a Job Control Failed error due to this kind of limitation.

Thank you in advance for a quick respons!

[ray.wurlod]

There is probably a limit in the DataStage Director.

However, this would not have any effect upon a script that was either logging or retrieving information from the job log, because the script would not be using Director.

There is no actual limit on the size of a logged event apart from the limit on the total amount of data in the log (2GB).

You need to look elsewhere for the cause of your job control failure.

[ArndW]

DataStage internally has no effective limit for the length of strings (as long as it can malloc() the space) so I don't think that a run will fail due to this. The message "pane" is a client side only object.

[chulett]

Actually, there is a 256000 character limit for log messages. When I capture a large amount of output from a script, for example, it will dump quite a bit of it into the log and then show:

Code: Select all

...[Message truncated to 256000 characters, actual length was 298659 characters]...

One such example pulled from my logs. As noted, however, it should not result in any kind of failure.

[ray.wurlod]

Obviously my jobs don't generate quite the same level of waffle as thine!

Learned something new today.

I suspect the limit for Director would be 64KB - it appears to use a rich text control to display the event detail.