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You can't use ReadSeq to read to end of line unless the line terminator is appropriate for the operating system. You can read with ReadBlk, a character at a time, until you come to a Char(13) or a Char(10), and check the next character just in case. Don't forget to CloseSeq, to release the lock on t...

System variables give the job start, which timestamp can also be had via the DSJobStartTimestamp macro. If you need the timestamp "now", prefer Date() and Time() functions. Oconv(Date(), "D-YMD[4,2,2]") : " " : Oconv(Time(), "MTS:")

This is not a DataStage question. In a shell script a reference to an environment variable begins with $, for example $PROJDATADIR is a reference to (the value of) the environment variable called PROJDATADIR.

I wonder whether you asked the right question?

Cud is what ruminants chew. I have no idea of your context for the question about an OBJ file.

Your head -1 command needs to be followed by the file name. The Sequential File stage reads stdout of the command rather than reading the file and applying the filter command to it.

At the very least you need ALLOWNFS to be set to 1. However DataStage can be very particular with mapped drives; you may have more success using UNC pathnames to refer to files on the remote machines. Usual Windows security considerations still apply; DataStage can not bypass these.

Are the DataStage services started?

My bad. As usual on a Friday night I was in an airport lounge, and it was very stormy weather, I was probably not fully focussed on DSXchange!

Map name is an optional property. The "warning" is actually an alert, informing you that you are changing from ustring to string (in case you weren't aware of it). Are you saying that the "implicit conversion" message persists even when you specify an explicit conversion, or that you haven't tried i...

When it's only one (which was not the original question, by the way), there will not be much to choose from in terms of number of stages in the job. My personal preference is guided by the relative newness of the Row Splitter stage; the Transformer has been around a lot longer and has had a better c...

I suspect that 0xde is the address, the "." is punctuation indicating the end of that sentence in the error message and the final "0" is spurious.

Therefore a VLIST of the generated Transformer code would reveal what instruction occurs at addres 0xde and the corresponding source statement.

ROOT refers to a record in DS_JOBOBJECTS table in the local (project) repository and in the equivalent table (whatever it's called) in the XMETA common metadata database.

... except in file/table names. Only in expressions.

Tip: with these large configuration files it's not a bad idea to add a comment beside each node name indicating its node number. /* Four node configuration beatles.apt */ { node "john" /* node #0 */ { definition } node "paul" /* node #1 */ { definition } ...

The special tokens $PROJDEF, $ENV and $UNSET are only ever used in the job parameter definition grid in a job design. They are never mentioned in the Administrator client.
Does that help clarify your question?