compile error--invoke GenRuntime using phantom process helpe

lak4u · Post by **lak4u** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:31 pm

Hi

I am getting following error while compiling my job.please help

Failed to invoke GenRuntime using phantom process helper

SoaresRui12 · Post by **SoaresRui12** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:41 am

Hi lak4u,
We have the same error, how it was resolved?

regards
Rui Soares

p4paulian · Post by **p4paulian** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:29 am

I am getting the same error. How was this resolved.

rsiem · Post by **rsiem** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:28 pm

I'm getting the same error now too.

We're on Datastage 8.1 on AIX.

It's isolated to one project which is kinda good at least...

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:26 pm

Try closing your clients and attempting for a second time, when the server isn't overloaded. GenRuntime is the umbrella routine responsible for generating the runtime components of a job design when it's compiled.

rsiem · Post by **rsiem** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:23 am

The first time we saw this message, we rebooted the box and on reboot the jobs were still locked. The only way to solve this was to export all components, drop the project and recreate it.

Now I'm seeing this again in a different project. Can't afford to keep doing this as we lose all our scheduling each time we do this.

My client's the only one running. The server isn't doing anything. We solved the last issue by exporting the project, dropping the project, and reimporting it again.

Any other ideas?

thepakks · Post by **thepakks** » Tue May 26, 2009 10:53 pm

I Have the the same problem.

Server - AIX
DS version - 8.1

"compile error--invoke GenRuntime using phantom process helpe"

Please giv any suggestion.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed May 27, 2009 12:08 am

Server job or parallel job?

thepakks · Post by **thepakks** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:39 am

Operation System - AIX version 5.3
Job Type - Parralal job
Datastage Version - 8.1

I dont want to remove project and re-create it.

Please give right suggetions.

shareeman · Post by **shareeman** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:53 am

Belated response....

This could be related to available swap space on the server, specifically in the Job's Project directory. Check for any recent files (core, debug)consuming a lot of disk space. Try getting rid of those and recompile. It Worked for me.

nirav_2004 · Post by **nirav_2004** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:31 am

I think this error is because of insufficient swap memory...and probably you can see it in the event viewer of windows. Apply above server fine tune tips and you can get rid of most of this performance related problems.

D0n1117 · Post by **D0n1117** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:51 am

nirav_2004 wrote:We had same issue, but after tuning the Windows OS as per the link below errors went away....

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg21318253

This worked for me as well (although the reboot could have had something to do with it. Will reply if the problem comes back.

clarcombe · Post by **clarcombe** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:41 am

I also got this error because I had a check for a Euro symbol in a stage variable in a transformer. I changed it to a test using char function

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:45 pm

That's because the ASCII representation for the Euro symbol (Char(128) is the same as that which DataStage uses internally for NULL. DataStage had this long before the Euro was invented.

There is an environment variable that can be set to specify a different internal representation of NULL (for example Char(164)). Alas I can't recall what it is at the moment, and am not in a place where I can easily check.

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