ERROR : ExtractKey detected

[wwalker]

Hi, all,

We have a simple job accessing a Folder stage, extracting only file names (using a substrings command on the file name with a len-20 as the second value) and writing this to a hash file.

There are about 10 files in the folder. This job has been running for some time successfully. However, one of the files is larger today than it has ever been : 160 MB.

Normally, that would indicate we had exceeded some file limitation on the file stage....but I doubt that the limitation would be below 160 MB...

We are getting the error :

Abnormal termination of stage GET_EXT_LIST..ExtractKey detected

and no other error information.

Has anyone ever seen this?

Thanks!


Wade

[chulett]

Reset the Aborted job and let us know if a 'From previous run...' message is added to your log. If so, double-click on it and post the contents.

[wwalker]

Hi, Craig

here is the log entry:

From previous run
DataStage Job 228 Phantom 20690
GET_EXT_LIST..ExtractKey: DSD.StageRun Active stage starting, tracemode = 1.
GET_EXT_LIST..ExtractKey: DSD.StageRun Active stage starting, tracemode = 1.
GET_EXT_LIST..ExtractKey: Set NLS locale to US-ENGLISH,US-ENGLISH,US-ENGLISH,US-ENGLISH,US-ENGLISH
GET_EXT_LIST..Source_Folder: DSD_DIROpen set &Folder& to "/grdata/datast/tomrp/CRM_to_DM/master/"
GET_EXT_LIST..Source_Folder: Using project default NLS map UTF8
GET_EXT_LIST..ExtractFilesList.SaveNames: Write caching disabled
CRITICAL ERROR! Notify the system administrator.


....that last entry does not look good......

[chulett]

No, it doesn't - and it's not one I've seen before.

Suggest you open a ticket with your official Support provider, get some professional help tracking that down.

If you remove that one 160MB file from the directory, does the job run to completion?

[wwalker]

Hi, Craig,

Yes, if the 160 MB file is removed, it runs like always...this is why this is so bizarre...

thanks...in-process with IBM...