Funnel warnings

[tatikramos]

Hello There,
i have this parallel job in datastage V8. and i am using a funel stage but for some reason i am getting a lot of warnings saying:
Funnel_47: When checking operator: Dropping "message4" in transfer from "inRec3" to "outRec".
you guys know why is this?
thanks for you help

[ray.wurlod]

What do you mean by "a lot"? One per column, or one per row processed? In the former case it's metadata related, in the latter case it's data related. Please verify that the row structure is identical on all inputs and on the output link of the Funnel stage.

[tatikramos]

one per column.

[betterthanever]

[quote="tatikramos"]one per column.[/quote]

check the metadata for all the inputs to the FUNNEL stage.
they should have same number of colums/column names and metadata as well.

[datastage_slk]

one per column.

check the metadata for all the inputs to the FUNNEL stage.
they should have same number of colums/column names and metadata as well.

Before the funnel stage you might be concatenating some fields and if the input fields of a stage are not used on the output link then these warnings arise.

I got same warnings. Is there a way which can remove these?

[tatikramos]

You are correct, i am concatenating some fields. i have to input link (invoiceid,line(i concatenate some fields here)) i pass this to the funel i join them using the invoicelineid and i outpu only the line. so you think funel doesnt like the concatenate part or just because i am not outputing all the columns from the input links?

[chulett]

The latter.

[ray.wurlod]

It is a requirement of the Funnel stage that the record schema on the inputs and output links are all identical. At least structurally.