Search and Replace within all scripts

Just create a job the has "24x7tower.com" or "24x7sc.com" in it and it should replace it. Within this job include a bunch of bogus lines ( I used 50 + in my test just now) and it cut it off with the JobModify command.

Thanks, please give me some time to play with this.

I'm able to reproduce this issue. Indeed there appears some limitation on the size of the value that can be passed using JobModify statement. I'm not sure about the exact place or cause of this limitation.

Here is a workaround that I found for this issue. It is possible to replace the JobModify with a user-defined statement using 24x7 DDE interface.

Create a new user-defined statement called SetJobScriptUsingDDE and taking 2 parameters: JobNo having numeric type and Script having string type.

In the code of the statement paste the following

	Code:
	Dim(channel, number) DDEOpen("24x7 Scheduler", "JDL", channel) Dim(what, string) Concat( JobNo, "\tSCRIPT", what) DDESetData(channel, what, Script) DDEClose(channel)

In the job script replace

JobModify( job_id, "SCRIPT", job_script )

with

SetJobScriptUsingDDE(job_id, job_script)

Why does the 'DDEClose(channel)' take so long? I have to wait 20 or so minutes.

I don't have an answer for that. For me it takes about a minute which is also suspiciously long. Try running the job as a detached process so it can "talk" to the scheduler via DDE as a separate process, which might help.

Also, you can save time, by declare "channel" as a global variable and calling DDEOpen and DDEClose only once for all jobs

Last edited by SysOp on Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:12 pm; edited 1 time in total

Do you have any other work around for this issue?
I need to visit 300+ scripts to update them.
The DDE option takes too long (15-20 min per script)

If you have a site license or a second license, you can use COM or Java APIs to perform the same operations. These APIs should be much faster, direct communications, no DDE timeouts, no script size limits, etc...

Another alternative is using a JAL script job to perform the required operation. Take a look at script examples provided in JobList and JobDescribe, JobModify topics in the on-line help. If you choose this method, make sure the job is run non-detached.