REmoving transformer

bikan · Post by **bikan** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:23 am

Hi,
I have job in which I am using transformer to to check whether particular value has onlly integer or not (I am using is Isvalid function). I am passing records only with integer value in particular col.
Now I want to replace transformer from this job, I there is any other stage ( modify, filter ) which perform same fumctionality.

Also can I use columns generator to create col having default as current timestamp.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:41 am

There is no other stage that can perform the functionality. Why do you want to replace the Transformer stage? That is it relatively inefficient compared to other stage types is no longer true (in versions 7.5 and later).

bikan · Post by **bikan** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:44 am

okk....I thought transformer is not so efficient stage ..hence I want to get rid of it to improve performance :D

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:46 am

True in versions 6.0 through 7.1, no longer true. Keep it in.