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A) It's not a "work around".

B) The file you told it to use is missing. Find it. Probably from wherever you got the code.

I'm not sure that question is really answerable. Seems to me the only way to really know would be to try it both ways on your system with your data and compare the results.

Never mind the fact that you saw enough of the answer to know what it was going to be - roll your own solution, search the 'net for code examples.

What exact 8.x version are you running? From your error message of "FAILURE: Code not yet implemented" I would think your first step would be to involve your official support provider and see if you can even do what you need to do using that mechanism in your version.

How similar? For anything other than exactly the same you should start your own post.

If you are processing XML files in a Server job you should be using a Folder stage and that can automatically pass in the name of the file along with the file contents.

It would help to know what all is in the directory and what you can and cannot see... especially what is different about the ones you don't see. A specific type? Permissions?

That too. Even on the PX side, not all capabilities of the 8.x suite existed back in the 7.x world.

... and you've just given a PX answer to a Server question. Please be aware of the forum / job type when answering as there are two different products in the suite.

He's looking for more specifics from you. So 'groups' of 5 based on input order, fine... but then what? What exactly do you mean by 'array structure'? Details and examples would all be good otherwise we're just guessing.

the file doesn't have such a field Then it sounds like you may not have a "variable block" file. I'm not the best one to help for stuff like this, I've done more than my share of COBOL in the past but never actually got any hands on time with the CFF stage and not done much mainframe stuf...

Have you checked this FAQ?

Show us how you are doing the conversion, your exact syntax.

Have you searched the forums? An exact search for in transfer from "beforeRec" to "outputRec" returned 38 matches.

I'm sure that Ray will be along eventually to school us but as Mike mentioned it seems to me it would be worthwhile to check the log timestamps to see what all of the activities were that took place during that initial 1:39:42 of run time. Unless we're in that "not accounted for elsewhere"...

I don't think that is applicable here. We're talking about a "start up" time of over an hour and a half, not a couple of minutes when it should normally be a handful of seconds. I'm guessing this job always has this discrepancy... I'd start by looking into what all is encompassed in that s...