Writing data to pipe using External target stage.

[allavivek]

Hi All ,

I am trying to write data to pipe using external target stage.

But i am finding difficult in writing the syntax for writing to pipe in "Destination Program" property.

What was the syntax to populate input columns to pipe ?

I tried just giving pipe name but its reporting error.

Thanks
Vivek

[ArndW]

When writing DataStage should not be able to detect a difference between that and an sequential file target. What is your error message?

[allavivek]

Well, When i am running the job by just giving pipe name as file name,Job was getting hung.

On the server side i did opened pipe using cat<pipename but nothing coming through.

Vivek

[ArndW]

When you write to a pipe you need to have a listener as well, otherwise the job will hang - pipes are just buffered areas and when the buffer fills up the writer process waits until the buffer frees up.

You can make a dummy named pipe reader by opening up a command line window / session and entering "cat [pipename]". This will just echo whatever is written to the pipe to the screen, and will terminate once the pipe writer process (DataStage) finishes.

[ray.wurlod]

Why not use a Sequential File stage? These have a property that allows them to read from or write to named pipes.