Certain job_list jobs do not run & produce no log in $alephe_scratch

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 18.01

Description:
Since the upgrade from v.16 to v.18, we have had trouble running p_cir_50 and 51 from the job_list.

Yesterday (7/11 and today 7/12) the jobs produced empty output files and .scr lock files in ABC50 $data_scratch.

Yesterday, I removed the .scr files and we were able to run the jobs manually. Here is what we see in $data_scratch:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 aleph aleph 0 Jul 12 08:55 cir_51_1.scr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aleph aleph 0 Jul 12 08:55 cir_51_3.scr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aleph aleph 0 Jul 12 08:55 cir_51_2.scr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aleph aleph 0 Jul 12 09:25 cir_50_1.scr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aleph aleph 0 Jul 12 09:25 cir_50_3.scr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aleph aleph 0 Jul 12 09:25 cir_50_2.scr

Resolution:
I have found that the form of the entries in the /exlibris18/aleph/u18_1/alephe/tab/job_list is non-standard.

This is this "non-standard" form:

01 08:15:00 N csh -f /exlibris/aleph/a18_1/aleph/proc/p_cir_50 ABC50,BillsGen1,N,06^07^
08^11^18^19,Y,,,00,00,00,Y,L,4

("N" in column 3 says that you do not want to use the batch queue.)

This is what I consider to be the standard form for this same job:

01 08:15:00 Y ABC50 p_cir_50 ABC50,BillsGen1,N,06^07^08^11^18^19,Y,,,00,00,00,Y,L,4


It could be that the "non-standard" form should work, but rather than trying to figure that out, I have

1) changed the "csh" job_list sections to the standard form

2) util e/15/2 (Kill job daemon)

3) util e/15/3 (Activate job daemon)

This worked.