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Hi,
I'm mapping varchar18 to varchar(15) in transformer stage. I'm not using substring here. I'm just doing direct mapping. I have data in length 18 from source. I expected warning in data stage log and this record will get dropped and the job status will be finished with warnings. But it doesn't throw any warning. Transformer stage passed first 15 characters only to target and job status is finished. Is this actual behavior of transformer stage? Do I need to set any environment variable to raise warning and make the record to get dropped from transformer stage?
Thanks,
Poovalingam.

There is no variable or setting you can change to make DataStage warn you automatically when you explicitly change to a smaller length.

You can of course program a transform stage to reject and output a warning to the log file when this happens.

Hi,

You may try the APT_IMPORT_REJECT_STRING_FIELD_OVERRUNS environment variable (ibm doc).

Eric

I tried using APT_IMPORT_REJECT_STRING_FIELD_OVERRUNS as True. I think it's not working. The records are not dropped even after setting the apt variable. I took a reject link from transformer. Still it went to output stream only.

Code it yourself. Use a constraint expression such as Use an Otherwise/Log output link to capture the too-long strings.

If you want to generate a warning, you can create a routine that passes its argument through unchanged but called DSLogWarn() in its code.

That's strange, according to this technote, the env variable should work on all DS versions : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg21586920

Eric

It says "APT_IMPORT..." which could imply it only works in the Sequential File stage rather than a Transformer. And I see your TechNote notes the same thing.

You are right, I really need to fix that 2days long headache.... Deepest apologies

Eric