Also, if you run the pig job from a script rather than from the grunt shell, the name is the name of the script (so, "pig foo.pig" names spawned jobs foo.pig)
On Apr 15, 2013, at 5:50 PM, Bill Graham <billgra...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can do this in your script as well: > > SET job.name 'my job'; > > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Prashant Kommireddi > <prash1...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> You can use >> >> http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.11.1/api/org/apache/pig/PigServer.html#setJobName(java.lang.String) >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Apr 15, 2013, at 4:25 PM, Jeff Yuan <quaintena...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> This is probably just a quick answer, but how do I set the pig job >> name? I'm generating Pig jobs in Java, and each job has the name >> "PigLatin:DefaultJobName" in the hadoop tracker. How can I change it? >> Or is there an easy way to generate a more useful name (in Hive, the >> default job name is based on the actual query)? >> >> Thanks, >> Jeff >>