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Has anyone else notice that if you have a job(s) that use a parameter set, that if a change is made in the parameter set, it is not reflected in the job?

The situation I'm running into is I delete a variable from my parameter set but my job still thinks the variable is there and asks for it when I run my job and of course fails. I've tried:

• recompiling
  removing/adding the parameter set to the job
  closing my designer and reopening
  making a copy of the job
  and a combinations of all of the above

No matter what I do, my job thinks the variable is still there. I can see the variable in the job control source code. So what I've had to do is export the job, use notepad to remove the bad code and import the job.

What version of DataStage?

Datastage 8.1 unfortunately

We're working on upgrading to 9.1 but that's still a couple of months away.

Others would have to confirm but from what I recall that was an issue in "older" 8.x versions that was subsequently corrected.

That is definitely fixed in 8.7. Another way to fix it is to save the job without the parameter set, exit the client, come back in and load the parameter set back into the job. Its a real pain on the early releases of 8.