Can Profiler tasks be automated?

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Is there a way to automate the running of a profiler task? Say, daily?

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fblau (BOB member since 2005-02-07)

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you can create batch job and schedule it run daily

refer to the following post to invoke a java program from command line that will create the profiling task and run that task

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Hi, Does anyone have a guide or any documentation on calling the webservices interface for profiling. We have a number of profiling tasks we would like to schedule, so to be able to get a DataFlow to call the profiling web service would allow us to control these in a schedule, and to drive the profiling from a control table. Submit_Profiling_Task is exposed in the wsdl, which I guess does what it says, but need extra info as to what to parameters to pass and also any other calls that need to …

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manoj_d (BOB member since 2009-01-02)

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I tried that… could never get it to actually work… there is a discrepancy with the parameters being passed to the java class that was wrong…

But really, it shouldn’t even take doing that. Every other ETL tool on the market practically lets you automate profiling. This is just a little lame to have to go through all this to do something that simple.

Any chance of getting a scheduler for profiler tasks any time soon?

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fblau (BOB member since 2005-02-07)