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Ray, Thanks! That just verifies what I told the client, "You can't do that!" :) Thanks again for the code. It did help me to give them a way to read parameters out of a file. I did search through the archives, but didn't come up with much. Guess I need to refine my search criteria. :) Tony

Ray, I wanted to thank you for posting this code. I used the snippet you posted as a basis for a batch job that reads the job parameters from a file, then launches the job with those parameters. Not exactly what they wanted, but close enough for now. (they wanted to read parameter values from a file...

Thanks again for your help, Ray and Craig.

I appreciate your help.

Tony

Ray,

I don't find ExecUV anywhere. Is this something I have to install?

Thanks,
Tony

Ray and Craig,

Thanks for your replies. I appreciate both your thoughts and suggestions.

I did come up with a job design that clears the hash file(s) before anything else occurs in the job. Ray, your suggestion seems a bit cleaner than mine. I'll look into it.

Tony

I have always been taught that the hash file needs to be cleared in an earlier part of the job before any of the stages that write to it are allowed to write to it. In fact, I'm pretty sure that when I did it the way you've described I've seen DataStage write data from one stage into the hash, then ...

Good day, everyone. I just started on a project where the client is using DataStage 6.x. I previously worked with DataStage 4.2.1, so some things have changed. The folks at this client have just taken a DataStage class a couple of weeks ago and are still learning. Anyway, to my question. In DataStag...