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Kim, I'd like to see it too; it's still at the client site, 2 years later, unused now I'm sure. It was a bit messy and problem specific, a 'throw-away'. We had boilerplate jobs that were created using metadata extracted from the DB dictionary; if and as the modellers changed schema (sometimes daily)...

I have encountered situations in PX where I had to rename data elements downstream to avoid what appeared to be 'name collision' error messages like that. It's also possible that Runtime Column Propagation is contributing to the error, as I believe that this makes the namespace global to all stages ...

FWIW, when I worked at CBIS (now Convergys), they DNS mapped the mainframe, so that we could view and manipulate MF files from our UNIX boxes and applications. We're talking 7x24 production instances, doing Usage/Rating/Billing processing of Call Detail Records for multi-million subscribers. Made ou...

Click the file stage Properties, then Input/Format tabs, on the Properties panel, select 'Record level', then choose and add property 'Fill char', and assign 'space' as the value from the listbox.

Carter

With Px target flat files, I believe that you will have to change the column types from Varchar to Char, and then perhaps also specify the fill character as 'space' (it may default, can't remember).

Carter

I've done something like this for specific purpose with Perl, but as has been said, 'why?'.

You can view and build the 7.0 PX jobs on the Wintel platform, but not (yet) compile and run them there.
I think this is actually pretty neat, since I can do my work in standalone mode on my laptop when remote, then export/import them to the real target UNIX platform later.

Carter Shore

I'm developing jobs to manipulate sets of records where it is proposed that they will be delivered to me encapsulated in an XML document. I'm concerned that performance may be a problem. Any members willing to share experience/opinions? Running DS 7.0 Parallel, currently on a Sun ES15K, but will be ...

In 7.0 there is a 'BASIC Transformer' stage and a 'Transformer' stage, with the same icon. I ran into a problem with the BASIC Transformer stage on Px jobs (it was on my shortcut palette somehow). Jobs would compile OK, but fail at runtime. Support said the BASIC Xfm ought to have worked, albeit at ...