datastage error: User Id is a required stage property

[Champa]

Team,

in datastage director I am getting the following error while running my job.

User Id is a required stage property

Any suggestions.

Thanks.

[chulett]

Pretty much exactly what it says: you have a stage in the job that requires a User ID - typically a Database stage - and you haven't supplied one. Shouldn't be all that hard to track down...

[Champa]

Team

I got rid of that error by changing my parameter UserId to something else.

Thx

[ray.wurlod]

No you didn't. You got rid of it by supplying either a value or a job parameter reference to the missing UserID property.

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[dsscholar]

Just wanted to know, how where you supplying the user id, was it a parameter or was it hard-coded...

[ray.wurlod]

It doesn't really matter; it has to be supplied

[chulett]

Exactly... and it doesn't even need to be a legitimate value to make that particular error go away - it just needs to be non-blank. Of course, adding a bogus value will generate other errors...

[Champa]

Team,

I had a parameter UserId & supplied a value.

Job was working fine up untill I started getting this error.

I had not made any other chanhes.

My lead suggested changing the parameter from UserId to something else & it worked.

I cannot explain what happened.

Thanks

[ray.wurlod]

My guess is that UserId is used internally as a variable name therefore making it the name of a job parameter introduced ambiguity into usage of that particular variable.