Troubleshooting u_dqm_end_job returns 3

Products

• CA Automic Dollar Universe

Issue/Introduction

How to investigate u_dqm_end_job returns 3 and what trace need to be set to investigate further. 

|ERROR|X|DQM|pid=p.t| owls_dqm_job_end| u_dqm_end_job returns 3

Environment

Release : 6.x and 7.x

Component: Dollar Universe Application Server (Node)

Area: DQM

Resolution

This error means the article is not found in DQM datafiles (maybe purge by something else).

For investigation, set in Node Settings - Logging - Main Log level: 0,DQM_FNC 

And collect information: 

• is it random?
• frequency of occurrences?
• related to a specific job?
• were there any manual intervention (on data file, or while stopping/deleting  a job),
• physical queues or logical queues?
• running on remote node?

Additional Information

Related article:

When a node is restarted, one or some launches go to aborted even though the script keeps running