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I tried building a simple case of the problem to be able to post more information here - but of course the simple case worked just fine. It was only after I threw in the lookup and and transformer stage preceeding the External Filter that things started to fail. Here are some of the 'clues' that I f...

Naveen -

Thanks for the response.

Do I imply from what you say that the output from an Extended Filter must match the input to the filter?

Thanks,
Bob

I've written a unix C program to be used as an external filter. The columns it returns are different than the columns fed to it (and many more rows are produced than are supplied to the filter). When I run the DS job, the external filter is called three times (there are three input records) and, bas...

The data is all flat file, no database involved. I defined the meta data from COBOL copy books.

Thanks,
Bob

I've written a unix C program to be used as an external filter. The columns it returns are different than the columns fed to it (and many more rows are produced than are supplied to the filter). When I run the DS job, the external filter is called three times and, based on debug msgs I've written to...