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But are we over engineering this. Or is this how we have to do it with Datastage.

ArndW wrote:Building a good solid generic job or shared container in PX isn't as easy as it would seem. But by using rcp and proper programming techniques it is a very powerful and useful thing to do. ...

I understand that. We are attempting to do what we thought would be a simple case: Create a generic sort. Thought this would be easy. Pass filename. schema and sort parameters. But under the covers not so easy to build, for this simple case of sorting a file based on 1 field v.s. 3 fields. We are go...

We are attempting to build generic jobs in DS such that they can be called with a set of parameters (metadata) rather than use Templates and create separate jobs for each set of metadata.

Has anyone done this with any success with this on a large scale?