Maintenance Team

1 • IIS9.1
• 23/03/2014
Maintenance Team
Operations Console
• Monitor DataStage jobs that are running or have run
− Information about the job, job activity, and resource usage

• View jobs running on any engine system in the domain

• Information is stored in the operations database
• Operations Console client – Thin client, accessible from Internet Explorer and
Firefox
− URL: http://domain:port/ibm/iis/ds/console/login.html

• Login with a DataStage user ID

− Supported DataStage project roles include: DataStage Operator, Super Operator,
Developer, Administrator
− Only information about projects the user ID has access to will be displayed
− DataStage Administrators can view information about all projects on all engine systems

2 • IIS9.1
• 23/03/2014
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Operations Console
GUI: Dashboard tab

• Job Activity section:

Monitor job activity
− Jobs running within the
current time range.
− Summaries of jobs
recently completed.
− Click on the Last: N
minutes links to specify
time ranges.

• Operating System
Resources section:
Displays CPU usage
and the amount of
available memory
• Engine Status section: Specifies the status of the engine services, including the
Operations Console services
• To the right of each section heading is a refresh icon
− Use it to refresh the display for the most current information

3 • IIS9.1
• 23/03/2014
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Operations Console GUI:
Projects tab
• Navigation section: Lists
projects for the currently
selected engine
− If your domain contains
multiple engines, you
can select which one to
display
− You can select which
projects to display for
the engine

• Select a project to
display information
about the project
− Contents statistics
− Environment variable
settings
• Select a specific job to display information about the job
− Job runs
− Select a job run to view details about it, including its job log messages
− Select multiple job runs to compare details about them, including resource usage and performance

4 • IIS9.1
• 23/03/2014
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Past Activity

Current Activity

Resources
Job Runs Tab

Operations Console GUI: Activity tab

• Monitoring current and past activities.
• Job Runs tab provides details about the job run history for all of the jobs
• Resources tab provides details system resource information for the selected engine during
a set time period
5 • IIS9.1
• 23/03/2014
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Operations Console GUI: Workload Management tab

• Two jobs are waiting in a medium priority queue
• In addition to maximum job count, system limits can be placed:
− CPU usage
− Memory usage
− Job start speed
6 • IIS9.1
• 23/03/2014
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Job run details
Click the View Details
link next to a job, for
example, seqJobs, to
view details about the
job run.
The window has several
tabs. Shown here is the
Log Messages tab,
which displays the job
log messages that were
generated when the job
ran. The Full Messages
box has been checked
to display the full set of
messages. The
Performance tab
displays information
similar to what you see
on the Dashboard tab,
including CPU and free
memory usage.
7 • IIS9.1
• 23/03/2014
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Queue Management tab
• Specify queue priorities: Low, Medium, High
• Specify queue priority rule
− Priority Weight (default): Priority based on queue priority and time in the queue
− Elapsed Time: Maximum time in queue before running
− Job Run Ratio: Specified ratios between priority queues
• Example: High to Medium = 3 to 1, meaning 3 high priority jobs run for each
medium priority job

8 • IIS9.1
• 23/03/2014