Make vector stage

[DINAKAR]

Hi,

I am new to datastage, earlier worked on other ETL tools,

I was going through vector concept in datastage ( using parallel vesion 8.0), while reading through parallel job development guide came across Make vector stage, gone through description as well as example.

Question here is, how do I use the vector built by this stage, I mean once the single column col with vector comes out of this stage how can I use it in downstream process, Can I access perticular element, do mathematical cals or apply some in built function? How do I access array using perticular index, How do I loop through array elements?

Appreciate your resposne.

Thanks

[ray.wurlod]

It's not that kind of vector.

It's a structure that might be produced or consumed by a COBOL file definition containing a single field that OCCURS multiple times. Both fixed-count (OCCURS N TIMES) and variable-count (OCCURS MAX N TIMES DEPENDING ON fieldname) vectors are supported, though there are some restrictions on the latter.

You access vector elements using a standard index notation, which is fully described in the DataStage Parallel Job Developer's Guide manual.