Pass Generated Value to After-job Subroutine

[davidnemirovsky]

I have a job that generates a value in a transformer stage. I need to pass that value to an after-job subroutine. The routine takes a pipe '|' delimited string, parses it and runs another routine that updates a flat file and performs some other tasks.

What is a neat way to accomplish this?

[ray.wurlod]

Lots of neat ways but they all boil down to pretty much the same thing; park it on disk. Another output link writing to a text file or a hashed file.

The job's user status area isn't in memory, it's a field in one of the run time hashed files in the Repository. So any "neat" solution using the user status area is still parking it on disk.

You could, if you wanted to, search for STAGECOM.ARR in the forum and figure out how this relates to the columns on input and output links. This approach carries the danger that it may change at some point in the future. However, your Transformer stage and your after job subroutine execute in separate processes, so even variables in COMMON aren't available to you. By the time you're in the after-job subroutine, all references to the variables in the Transformer stage, including the array STAGECOM.ARR, have been destroyed.

[davidnemirovsky]

Looks like I'll be parking it on disk then!

Thanks Ray.