DSXchange

Sure it does! XML export files!

DSGetNewestId has options for filtering by event type (severity) and timestamp.

BASIC doesn't have data types, so the answer is properly no. Pass the value as string into your parallel job and convert it there.

Is there any way to control this?

Triggers. Your first job sequence has a link to your second job sequence. You make the trigger on this link "Finished OK" or a custom trigger that allows both finished OK and finished with warnings.

It's an "activity variable" in your job sequence.
RoutineActivityName.$ReturnValue

Can you use the oerr command successfully? For example

Search the forum for the SQL. You update a column called READONLY in DS_JOBOBJECTS where OBJNAME = 'ROOT' and OBJIDNO is the correct job number.

You could read up about the following commands in the Ascential DataStage Hash Stage Disk Caching manual!

SET.MODE
LIST.FILE.CACHE
CLEAR.FILE.CACHE
CATALOG.FILE.CACHE
DECATALOG.FILE.CACHE
DAEMON.FILE.CACHE

A ten digit number will never match that pattern, because that pattern matches a string containing three digits, one "any" character, three more digits, one more "any" character then four more digits. If your source data are purely numeric, you may prefer InLink.Phone_Number MATCHES "10N" ...

Can you open a CMD shell and execute the command shrdump ? This command is located in the DataStage Engine bin folder. It provides a listing of the shared memory segments in use by DataStage processes. It may be that you can connect soon after shutting down dsservice.exe because Windows has not yet ...

Not unless you tell us, completely and precisely, what your job is doing in these stages.

Check also in Task Manager. If dsservice.exe is genuinely not running, I dispute your assertion that "I can still connect to the server (which is on my local machine) and run the jobs." I have stopped DataStage services on my machine (server on local Windows), and I can neither connect from DataStag...

Look (in generated OSH) at the stage with which the export operator is associated. This is where you need explicitly to handle the null.

Verify that dsservice.exe has truly stopped and not restarted. Do this through the Services applet, not the DataStage applet.

There is a Tutorial that ships with the product. It has a couple of examples. Then, working through it, you get to build some others.