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Kenneth, Five containers suggests to me 5 passes through the data. This doesn't seem very efficient. For sake of discussion, if efficiency did not matter, then why not just grep the data for the specific record-type in each of 5 sequential stages? Where's the benefit of using containers? Can you ela...

Looking into containers, it looks like they all require one input link and one output link only for the container's interface to the outside.

This doesn't seem workable - I need 5 output links on my container. Am I missing something in your suggestion?

Thanks

I've never used containers, but could give it a try to see if I can make it work that way. This option sounds better than creating a seperate server job to do the preliminary processing - I'd like to avoid landing the files unnecessarily.

You're right - the first post was from my co-worker, who was trying to help me out. I should have put my rephrasing of the problem into the same topic - sorry.

I have a large input file containing multple record types. Each record type has a different record layout. Is there a way to make one read-pass through the input file, and for each record-type encountered, select a specific output link, with a record layout correct for that record-type? I am trying ...