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Monitoring Jobs

Job monitoring enables you to review job progress through the links and to see the number of rows that are being processed.

To monitor a job In DataStage Director, select a job and then select Tools, New Monitor:

The Monitor window displays summary information about relevant stages in a job. It contains a tree structure that displays stages in a job and their associated links. For server jobs, it shows active stages. Active stages perform processing rather than reading or writing to a data source.

The Link type column displays up to four types of links:

Link Type

Description

<<Pri

Primary link

<<Ref

Reference link

<<Out

Output link

<<Rej

Reject link

To see detailed information, double-click a link.

Setting the Refresh Interval

The Monitor window display is updated with new information from the server at regular intervals. You can set how often the updates occur by specifying a time, in seconds, in the Interval field. Click the arrow buttons to increase or decrease the value, or enter the value directly. The default setting is 10. The minimum value is 5. The maximum value is 65.