reading the records from thesored dataset using transformer

[ravikiran2712]

iam unable to get the logic in the transfomer stage for retrieving the first 200 records of the sorted data on two fields say store and date.i need to direct only first 200 records for a particular store on a particular date.
thanx in advance and

[T42]

One suggestion:

Run a before job routine that does a "head -200 #inpufile# > #outputfile#"

Read the output file in the main stream.