Jobs

As described before, the Job is the set of tasks to be performed. A job script is an XML file defining the tasks to be performed by the job.

Tasks can be executed in:

• single threaded mode (default): tasks are executed sequentially.
• multi threaded mode: tasks are executed in parallel, according to their specific “thread” setting.

For further explanation on multi-threaded jobs, please refer to Multi-Threaded Jobs.

The job is defined by the XML element job whose attributes configure the execution parameters. The following attributes configure the job:

Attribute	Type	Purpose	Default
name	string	The job name.	the script file.
stopon	string	If specified, defines the error condition causing the job to stop. Refer to Stop Conditions for detailed description.	never
multithread	bool	Enables/disables multithreaded tasks execution.	false
maxparalleltasks	integer	Sets the number of maximum paralles tasks. If set to zero, it assumes the default value.	256
memorycheck	bool	If set to true, Ianus logs memory stats in the log	false

The Task elements are used to define the tasks included in the job.

Stop Conditions

The following stop conditions are admitted:

Value	Condition
abort	Job stops when a step aborts
error	Job stops when a step ends with errors
warning	Job stops when a step ends with warning
never	Job executes all steps, regardless of their exit status

Include Element

Using the Include element it is possible to include other XML files inside a job script.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<job name="DB2vsSQL">

  <tablecompare name="TBLCMP01" mode="key" left="DB2" right="QS">
    <left>ADMINISTRATOR.TEST01</left>
    <right>dbo.TEST01</right>
  </tablecompare>
  
  <filecompare name="FILECMP03" left="REPOEBCDIC" right="REPOEBCDIC">
    <log>**** SEQ VAR IBM vs IBM comparison ***</log>
    <left recfmt="variable" reclen="932">SYS053.bin</left>
    <right recfmt="variable" reclen="932">SYS053.bin</right>
    <layouts>
      <layout type="cobol" format="free" length="auto">
        01  SYS053-DESCR.
            03  HEADER-SUP      PIC X.
            03  HEADER-CLE-TAB  PIC 9(4).
            03  HEADER-CLE-CENR PIC 9.
      </layout>
    </layouts>
  </filecompare>
  
</job>