Hi Alan, Thanks for the pointers. Will look at oozie for the time being :)
On Feb 11, 2012, at 2:59, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > Not quite yet. We're working on a web services interface to do this for Pig > and other Hadoop tools, but it isn't ready for prime time just yet. You can > see the early form at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HCATALOG-182 > > Oozie does have some support for this as well, you could check it out at > http://incubator.apache.org/oozie/ > > Alan. > > On Feb 3, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Michael Lok wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I was wondering if it's possible to submit register and run a script >> using PigServer in MAPREDUCE mode in an asynchronous manner; compared >> to how a script is executed right now whereby the program is made to >> wait till the job is finished. Although the task is still executed in >> the server, I can't programmatically retrieve the job id for future >> reference. >> >> >> Any help is greatly appreciated. >> >> >> Thanks. >
