Link Collector with no output link

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Precious
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Link Collector with no output link

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I was working on a job with a Link Collector and Link Partitioner.
I always copy and paste links in order to try and save some time.
When I joined the copied link to my target sequential file, I linked it backwards :oops: Resulting in the target sequential file being part of the inputs to the Link Collector and no output link from the Link Collector.

I was able to compile and run the job like this. I only realized that something was wrong when I got mutex errors.

After trying several things, I realized that my Link Collector did not have an output link.

:?: Shouldn't the compiler pick this up? When you do the same thing with a transformer, the compiler tells you that the transformer has no output links. Am I missing something?
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Post by ray.wurlod »

The precompiler should pick it up. :oops:

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