[HTCondor-users] Using VARS with SPLICE in DAGMan

[Christopher Martin <martin.christopherw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm looking at SPLICE in DAGMan and I'm curious if you can use CATEGORY and VARS to send values into the jobs of the inner dags. The documentation mentions that MAXJOBS can be controlled this way so I'm hoping there is the same functionality for VARS.

I'll potentially going to have a lot of jobs with slight variations and I'm trying to work around having to generate submit files for each.

I've put together an example of what I'm wondering is possible:

#BEGIN DAG FILE X.dag

JOB A condor_job_A.submit

CATEGORY A catA

JOB B condor_job_B.submit

CATEGORY B catB

PARENT A CHILD B

#END DAG FILE X.dag

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#BEGIN DAG FILE S.dag

JOB A outer_job_A.submit

JOB B outer_job_B.submit

SPLICE X1 X.dag

VARS X1+catA myvar="myvalue1"

SPLICE X2 X.dag

VARS X2+catA myvar="myvalue2"

SPLICE X3 X.dag

VARS X3+catA myvar="myvalue3"

PARENT A CHILD X1 X2 X3

PARENT X1 X2 X3 CHILD B

# END  DAG FILE S.dag

Cheers,

Chris.