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Especially considering this other problem they have posted:

http://www.dsxchange.com/viewtopic.php?t=120106

Actually, usually this is a Bad Thing. Sometimes even a Very Bad Thing.

Sure, they support multiple writer processes. There's still the 'last one in wins' destructive overwrite per key to keep in mind, of course.

They aren't available in PX because they commit the cardinal sin of being disk based entities.

The full error message will tell you what stage this is coming from, could be sequential or a hashed file. Also try searching the forums for "unable to read file header", there are a couple of other posts out there on the subject.

Ask an SA there, it uses 'sendmail' under the covers.

Then they're not nulls, probably just an empty string. What kind of field are we talking about? Can you try checking for both?

Not that I am aware of, it is a known limitation of the Folder stage. A couple of questions - first, define 'large'. Second, is the Folder really the right tool for the job? If you are just using it to 'merge' multiple files and not feed an XML stage, then why not leverage the Filter option in the S...

Server job. No 'Copy' stage. Sequential as the universal end point.

We've seen another post or two from people with the same problem, but no resolution that I recall. And I'm not aware of any legitimate situation where the 'Cleanup Resources' option in the Director won't show you anything when you tell it to show you all things. If that's truly your situation, open ...

D'oh!

Right... the only time I've had issues 'hacking' values into DSParams was if I didn't handle both sections correctly and completely.

Of course. Didn't really want to get into all of the gory details of what might be based on various job design considerations but thanks for throwing that into the stew pot, Ken. Was hoping Colin would come back and clarify his exact job design so his specific fears can either be confirmed or denied.

Well... you just basically repeated your first post without answering either of our questions. What one generally finds as one upgrades is 'bugs' or things you could have gotten away with in an earlier version are fixed in the latest release and no longer work. So the fact that this used to work and...

Give us an example of what the output data should look like, given your input data example.