Getting a before-job routine value in a job parameter

[abc123]

I would like to get a value from a Unix text file by using a before-job subroutine as:

cat FileName1

I would like this value to be the initial value of a stage variable in the job. I know that I can have a sequence job and call this in a exec command stage and then call the job in a job activity stage. However, I would like to do this in one job. How do I do it?

[Madhavan VM]

Could you explain what is the scenario where you need such a work around?

[ArndW]

This approach will, unfortunately, not work due to the way DS jobs are executed at runtime.

What you can do is compute the value of the stage variable in a sequence, then pass it into the job as a parameter and use the parameter value as the initial value for the stage variable.