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Search the forums for 'ETLStats' or 'dsjob -report'. We've had this conversation many times before. For example...

http://www.dsxchange.com/viewtopic.php?t=118145

'Before the first time run', meaning when the log is empty? Wouldn't one expect to get a zero in that case?

If you mean something else, please let us know.

Read, sure, but do you not also want to convert it to ASCII and unpack the packed fields? If not, well... guess I'll just move along and post elsewhere.

You are aware of the fact that there is a perfectly good and rather lovely shade of orange link at the bottom of the page that says 'Reply to Topic' yes? You really don't need to quote everything every time you post here.

Any particular reason why you are not using the CFF / Complex Flat File stage? It will handle all of your conversions for you automatically once you set it up correctly.

Oh well... so much for the "please don't quote everthing" request. The Field function does not require a trailing or 'second' delimiter to pull the second (or even the final) field from a string. Unless this is a feature in the 8.x release. You've said what it is not returning, how about letting us ...

Can't really help other than to say that a search for "Requesting Delayed MetaData" returned a dozen matches... any of those help?

I'll do this to - but only with a Filter of some kind enabled... never for everything in the Project.

In other words...

ArndW wrote:DSGetLinkInfo() will return a valid count only when called from the end-of-job.

This is funny... I thought about fixing it after typing it for about half a second and then decided to leave it there as bait for the PPP - the Possessive Pronoun Police. Sorry, Officer, it won't happen again!

Silly question, perhaps, but any chance you are using a trial license and it... expired? Or perhaps you've got a rogue anti-virus issue?

You'll need more room than you think. Under the covers, the Merge stage loads your two input files into hashed files so you'll need space for that as well as the resulting output. Perhaps a different approach... Can you load the smaller file into a reference hashed file and then stream in the larger...

No such thing, really. Curious, though, why you would be turning off categories in the Director? If there is a particular reason you are doing that (rather than just being a glutton for punishment) we should be able to help you find an alternate approach.

Not sure why that would be a problem. Besides, if you don't add it, DataStage will.