Reusable Multiple-Stage Process

[newerakb]

I need to do some name cleansing, and I'm using the USNAME Standardize stage, but there's some additional prep and cleanup I need to do on the names using Transformer stages.

However, I have about 20 very different input files that all need to run through this identical name cleanse process, which consists of about 3-5 stages. Is there a way I can reuse this group of stages within all my jobs, rather than create the entire sequence of stages each time?

Basically, I want to create my own stage, but instead of using BASIC or C++, I want to create it like any other parallel job in the DS Designer. Does this functionality exist?

I know that I could make the name cleanse process its own job, but then I'd need to split each of my file-processing jobs into two parts: one before the name job, and one after. I'd like to just drop this process in the middle of existing jobs as a stage.

If this isn't possible, it should be, and it seems very obvious and useful

[ray.wurlod]

Check out "Shared Containers". You don't need to create your own stage (though that's possible too, though you would need to code it in C++), you just need to create a shared container. And you can do that by selecting the existing five stages and creating the container from them.

[newerakb]

exactly what I was looking for, thanks ray!