Bug 2306 – Unique job id as RSL substitution variable

Bug 2306 - Unique job id as RSL substitution variable

Summary:

Unique job id as RSL substitution variable

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	GRAM
Component:	wsrf managed execution job service
Version:	development
Platform:	All All

Importance:	P3 enhancement
Target Milestone:	4.2
Assigned To:	Peter Lane

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Reported:	2004-11-17 11:49 by Mats Rynge
Modified:	2005-11-08 17:49 (History)

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Description From Mats Rynge 2004-11-17 11:49:37

It would be useful to have a unique job id as a rsl substitution variable. For
example, it would allow for resuing the same RSL for multiple jobs on the same
resource:

<job>
    <executable>foo</executable>
    <stdout>/tmp/stdout.${GLOBUS_JOB_ID}</stdout>
    <stderr>/tmp/stderr.${GLOBUS_JOB_ID}</stderr>
    <fileStageOut>
        <transfer>
            <sourceUrl>file:///tmp/stdout.${GLOBUS_JOB_ID}</sourceUrl>
         <destinationUrl>gsiftp://target/out.${GLOBUS_JOB_ID}</destinationUrl>
        </transfer>
    </fileStageOut>
</job>


As a comparison, most batch schedulers provide something like this in their job
descriptions. LSF:

   If  you  use  the  special character %J in the name of the error
   file, then %J is replaced by the job ID of the job. If  you  use
   the  special character %I in the name of the error file, then %I
   is replaced by the index of the job in the array if the job is a
   member of an array. Otherwise, %I is replaced by 0 (zero).

PBS:

  PBS_JOBID
     the job identifier assigned to the job by the batch system.
  PBS_JOBNAME
     the job name supplied by the user.

------- Comment #1 From Peter Lane 2005-09-29 17:22:28 -------

Added to the trunk.  I didn't add a scheduler test case since I don't know how
to test it effectively.  I would need control of the globusrun-ws command so I
could specify a submission ID that would end up as the value for the substitution.

------- Comment #2 From Olle Mulmo 2005-11-08 05:26:49 -------

YOU SHOULD NOT ADD THAT GLOBUS_JOB_ID EXISTS IN THE 4.0 DOCUMENTATION TREE!!!

------- Comment #3 From Peter Lane 2005-11-08 12:31:48 -------

I commented out references to GLOBUS_JOB_ID in the 4.0 doc.  Let me know with
screaming, all-caps text if I missed something.

------- Comment #4 From Olle Mulmo 2005-11-08 17:30:44 -------

Apologies about the screaming. I discovered today (the hard way) that GT4
didn't
work as I had expected it to work. That GLOBUS_JOB_ID would be one of the
available substitution variables seemed like a very natural thing to me, and I
had to spend the rest of the day engineering ugly workarounds. The pressure
valve collapsed and steam had to be let off somewhere...

Another way to look at it: since this functionality has been part of the 4.0
documentation, wouldn't the fix be a candidate for 4.0.2? ;-)

------- Comment #5 From Peter Lane 2005-11-08 17:49:48 -------

The documentation was accidentally added rather recently, so the doc has been
without it for much longer than it has been included.  It's also clearly an
interface change, and interface changes are prohibited for the 4.0.x series of
releases.