Writing to sequential file

PeterPol · Post by **PeterPol** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:28 am

Hi all,

My simple job has the following stages:

SYBASEOC --> Transformer --> Sequential File

Since writing to the sequential file is irrelevant, I wondered if I can skip this target stage? Or can I use a dummy (non-existent) filename?

Peter

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:35 am

Yes, but it will just be created for you. If it is too much of a dummy it will cause the job to abort. It would help if you explained why it is 'irrelevant' in this case, I would think, so the suggestions can be more... targeted.

PeterPol · Post by **PeterPol** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:47 am

Hi,

Output is not relevant because the job only needs to set the userstatus in the transformer.

Peter

DSguru2B · Post by **DSguru2B** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:54 am

You can write it to NULL. In unix it would be /dev/null. I think its windows equivalent is NUL or \NULL.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:55 am

If you were on a UNIX server, I'd suggest writing to '/dev/null'. From what I recall, there is an equivalent on Windows but not sure what it is off the top of my head. Anyone?

Ah... Chuck snuck in right before me.

PeterPol · Post by **PeterPol** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:11 am

hi all,

\NULL works !

Peter

Sanket_Saraph · Post by **Sanket_Saraph** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:30 am

If writing to file is not mandatory then you can put copy stage as trash.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:58 pm

Just curious - how are you setting the user status in a parallel job?

PeterPol · Post by **PeterPol** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:22 am

Example was for server job ...