Invalid Workunit

[swampsoda]

I'm trying to follow the tutorial and run the Hello World program but keep getting this Invalid Workunit error message:

WsWorkunits.WUInfo
2019-09-15 12:14:27 GMT: WUInfo: Invalid Workunit ID: L20190915-081424

I could not find someone with a similar problem and would appreciate any help I can get.

[rtaylor]

swampsoda,

Because your WUID begins with "L" that tells me you're compiling "Local" -- try selecting "Thor" from the target droplist and see if that corrects the issue.

HTH,

Richard

[JimD]

Swampsoda,

In addition. if your submitted ECL has a syntax error, your Workunit ID may begin with an L (indicating Local) because that is where the error occurred. In other words, it failed to syntax check locally before ever reaching Thor.

Do any syntax errors display in the IDE?

HTH,

Jim

[swampsoda]

Hey all, I got it fixed.
I downloaded Visual Studio C++ compiler and it started to work.
Thanks for the responses!

[lpezet]

Hello!
I know this is old but I'm getting the same exact behavior right now.
And yes, I selected "Thor" and I still get "Local" stuff.
I can select anything I want in the "Target" dropdown (roxie, thor, thor_roxie, hthor), but it doesn't seem to matter, it's stuck to "Local" somehow.

I was working off 6.4 when I decided to upgrade. I installed 7.8.8-1 (server is 7.8.6-1) and since then I'm stuck in "Local" mode. I tried uninstalling it and going down couple versions, but still stuck.

Any tips what I could be looking at? (logs?? some Microsoft C++ dependencies??)


Thanks for the help!

[hwatanuki]

Hello lpezet,

I have seen cases before where this could be caused by a bad ECL IDE install or connectivity issues with the cluster.

At this point in time, and based on the details you have provided so far, I would suggest you to setup a configuration within your current ECL IDE to the playground (play.hpccsystems.com) and give it a try with a simple code. Note that the playground is currently setup to use SSL.

Let us know how it goes.

HugoW

[lpezet]

Hi HugoW!

I just tried. It managed to connect to the cluster I believe (otherwise I'd get that "Unable to communicate with server" error).
I used the code from ECL Playground (the dataset with 3 people in it) and still no luck: it doesn't submit anything remotely, just stays "local".

I'll look into uninstalling and installing different versions (again) then.

Thanks!

[lpezet]

I believe I've figured it out.

I used command line to run eclcc.exe manually. When doing so, it complained MSVCR120.DLL was missing. I had Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 installed (and I probably uninstalled earlier version) but Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 is needed.

Once I installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 I was back in business.