Concatenate Parameters in Job sequencer Job Activity

Mat01 · Post by **Mat01** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:59 pm

Hi All,

I wrote a job that will be called by other processes sequencers to perform a common functionality. One of my parameters is the input file name. In many of our processes, this parameter is actually built from other params (like #name#_#source#_#date#.dat). I am trying to pass to my job this name as one parameter. Problem is that I cannot find a way to concatenate the parameters as one when I fill the job activity parameters list in the sequencer stage. Anybody know how this could be done?

Thanks

Mat

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 5:06 pm

You can't - at least not there as it only accepts a single parameter.

If I'm following what you need to do, you could write a routine that takes multiple parameters and concatenates their values together, passing the result out. The output from this routine could then be used in the Job Activity's parameter list.

Mat01 · Post by **Mat01** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 5:15 pm

Thanks for your reply. I could probably do that but that means I would have to add another step to my sequencer to call the routine, no?

Regards,

Mat

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:27 pm

Yes, you will need an extra stage. Many of these fiddly restrictions on sequence jobs are fixed up in 7.5.

Mat01 · Post by **Mat01** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:30 pm

Okay, thank you very much for your answers. Out of curiosity, do you know when the next version will be released?

Regards,

Mat

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:44 pm

I think it was two weeks ago! There is an announcement of 7.5 and details of new functionality over on Ascential devnet. You should check it out. I think it also contains a summary of new features in version 7.0 and 7.1. You're moving from version 6, you'll get cut and paste of stages, hanging links, automated restart in sequence jobs etc.

Mat01 · Post by **Mat01** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:07 pm

Wow, don't make we dream too much. I have been working on 6.x for almost 2 years now. hopefully, my next project will upgrade.

Thanks much

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:58 pm

Time to upgrade, man!

Much goodness awaits, especially in the Sequencer job arena. And cut-and-paste in Designer! And hanging links! And it's pretty darn painless to upgrade.

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