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More to the question than just 'can I'. Read the section in the Parallel Job Developer's Guide on Incorporating Server Job Functionality. It's page 2-33 in my copy and gives details and caveats of using them in a PX job.

Yes.

sgiang wrote:How can I set it such that my client session will not time-out ? I can't seem to be able to find it in Administrator.

It's there, right on the front from what I recall, but you need to be 'dsadm' to change it. Next to the timeout value is a checkbox to 'Never timeout'.

It's not always possible to clear all users and you may not personally have the permissions that you need to do so. In that case, stop the server which will kill the connection... eventually. In most cases. I've had to do that many times for various and sundry reasons. Once the server is down, start...

Ah. Thanks for the clarification, Mr Ray. :D

One such training class option would of course be the World Famous Ray Wurlod Server to Parallel Transition Lab.

You may also find that manually editing the file helps tremendously.

Sunshine, just an FYI. If you wanted to go crazy you could shorten that all down to one expression: Substrings(Input.Sentence,Index(Input.Sentence,ExtractWord,1),Len(ExtractWord)) I'm sure you broke it up to illustrate the individual steps, but also wanted to point out it cou...

I would like to extract specific substring from string, without knowing the position of that substring. That particular substring position is not fixed, it can be any where in the String. Technically, you will have to know or determine the position of the substring if you truly want to extract it. ...

In other words, have a chat with an SA.

That doesn't seem to be a 'tab delimited' read problem - are you saying that your file is messed up and there is a CR in the middle of record 3?

The patch is non 'version specific' and is related to Windows SP2.

Pad them (each field) to a consistant size.

Actually, try it without the commas between the fields. Don't understand exactly why, but with commas = same checksum while without commas = totally different checksums.

We need to use a bit of thought before submitting 'corrective' posts. This will make DSXChange a more positive environment for everyone. I concur. IMHO, people have gone a little overboard with feeling a need to correct others posts. People will 'inappropriately' quote entire messages for no reason...