Process cannot recognize variable

[ray.wurlod]

Where - precisely - are these two routines being executed? In particular, are they in the same process? If the first is a before-job subroutine it is in the job process; if the second is in a Transformer stage it is in the stage process (a different process, with a different variable space). If that's the scenario, move the before-job subroutine so that it is a before-stage in the same Transformer stage as the one in which the second routine is invoked, then both routines will be executing in the same process.