Extracting JOB_ID within the DS Job

Question

We have the following requirements:
Web Client calls a batch job.
We do not want the webclient to continually call the DI WebService to check the status of the job. So, when the DI job is finished, as the last step, we would like the job to call a web service to indicate that it finished (or failed in a Catch block).
To support this, we would like to pass the Job ID as a parameter to this Web Service (theoretically, there could be multiple instances of the same job running parallely, so the name would not be enough).
Any ideas how we can get the Job ID in the job, or support the above requirements?
Thanks,
Sandeep

Answer 1

you can use information stored in ALVW_HISTORY view
if you are running mulitple instances of same job, then it would be difficult to identify the row for the running job from with in the job, I don't think there is a buit-in fuction wihch gives you the runid of the job
since trace, monitor and error log files are unique for a job instance, you could use get_trace_filename() in WHERE clause to identify the row for the job in combination of other coumn like END_TIME not null, machine_name , port number etc
the TRACE_LOG column will store the complete path of the file, in case of windows you will combination of / \ as path separator but get_trace_filename() will return only / in the output as path separator, you may have to do a replace while comparing