diff --git a/src/job-execution/JobExecutor.ts b/src/job-execution/JobExecutor.ts
index 4a61250..f9c9944 100644
--- a/src/job-execution/JobExecutor.ts
+++ b/src/job-execution/JobExecutor.ts
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ export abstract class BaseJobExecutor implements JobExecutor {
         config.useComputeApi === null &&
         config.serverType === ServerType.SasViya &&
         config.runAsTask === true
-          ? 'log'
+          ? 128
           : 131
     }
 
diff --git a/src/utils/parseViyaLogDebugResponse.ts b/src/utils/parseViyaLogDebugResponse.ts
index 0dfe20e..9060c9c 100644
--- a/src/utils/parseViyaLogDebugResponse.ts
+++ b/src/utils/parseViyaLogDebugResponse.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { getValidJson } from './getValidJson'
 import { parseWeboutResponse } from './parseWeboutResponse'
 
 /**
- * When querying a Viya job using the Web approach with _DEBUG=log (used when
+ * When querying a Viya job using the Web approach with _DEBUG=128 (used when
  * runAsTask is true), the webout JSON is inlined into the response via:
  *   var blob = new Blob([`{...}`], {type: 'application/json'});
  * On abort/error paths the same shape is used but with text/plain and
@@ -10,7 +10,12 @@ import { parseWeboutResponse } from './parseWeboutResponse'
  *   var blob = new Blob([`>>weboutBEGIN<<\n{...}\n>>weboutEND<<\n`], {type: 'text/plain'});
  * No follow-up request is needed — extract and parse the JSON directly.
  */
-export const parseSasViyaLogDebugResponse = async (response: string) => {
+export const parseSasViyaLogDebugResponse = async (response: any) => {
+  // If upstream already parsed the response as JSON (object), pass through.
+  if (typeof response !== 'string') {
+    return response
+  }
+
   const blobMatch = response.match(
     /new Blob\(\[`([\s\S]*?)`\],\s*\{type:\s*'(?:application\/json|text\/plain)'\}\)/
   )