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How precisely do you plan to "read the metadata of a file"?

Without knowing this it is rather hard to provide further advice.

Sort data on the first two columns, have the Sort stage generate a Key Change column.
In a Transformer stage use stage variables to accumulate the third column, and use the Key Change column to trigger sending a row to the output link.
Be careful to partition your data based on the sort keys.

Search for DSParams. It has been addressed a number of times even in the past week.

If you can create mainframe jobs, then you have EE MVS, not EE. EE MVS is the newer name for mainframe edition.

Doesn't the Search facility work in your browser?

This question has been answered on an number of occasions.

Works fine for me. What do you actually get when you use View Data?

Version 4 parallel job? Really?

... unless, of course, your project is either incompletely installed or corrupted.

Ya hafta maintain the mystique!!

Have you read the file with "Contains Terminators" set for the appropriate column(s)? If so, you can effect your Ereplace() when deriving those columns.

Have you read the file with "Contains Terminators" set for the appropriate column(s)? If so, you can effect your Ereplace() when deriving those columns.

That message suggests that you do not belong to any group to which the DataStage Developer role has been assigned.

Simply setting ErrorCode to 1 in the after-job routine will cause the job to abort.

Is the DataStage RPC daemon (dsrpcd) running on the DataStage server?

dsjob is an executable (binary) file. It doesn't have lines in it. What is the size of the file?