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That cost entitles you to ONE attempt. The same cost applies to each additional attempt. Make sure to do your preparation.

Which Rule Set are you using here? The things you've listed can not be standardized with a single rule set - are you talking about USPREP for example? In that case the separator literal must be of the form ZQnameZQ.

So, what you're telling us is that your employer has transferred you into a new role without any intention of providing training for that role?

What other log files exist under C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer/profiles/default\logs\server1 ?

Does any of these contain useful information?

Rather than waiting for those occasions that we post, do involve your official support provider - after all, you're paying them to support you.

APT_STRING_PADCHAR will not help. Try a Trim() function with Char(0) as the second argument.

It was an example. I sometimes require my interlocutors to think.

But the question leads to an epiphany. Why not solve it from the other end, so to speak? Set up the "list of things" as a delimited string as before. In a User Variables activity create a variable that contains the number of things in that list of things (the number of delimited fields, if...

Folder stage gives the option of fully qualified pathname or not. Choose not. Then, for example, apply an "MCN" Oconv() to the file name to get the numeric portion.

$Counter contains one "thing" off the "list of things".

That's what you're missing here.

I have been given to understand that "Microsoft sucks" has been elevated to the status of "axiom".

You don't need a routine - you could use that expression directly in an expression.

If you do use a routine there's a much nicer solution that uses the Locate statement.

Almost none of the responses I put onto DSXchange is short enough to use this technology. Plus I don't use it personally. Phone or SMS is good enough for the few communications I need to have.

Indeed, at least one Friday is a holiday in Christian cultures, and Friday is not a business day in Islamic cultures. A Time (or Calendar) dimension is the preferred solution. A Time dimension at daily granularity might even include a "last business day of month" column if that makes good ...

It's a good question, naive or not. The answer is no. Therefore you are going to wear the warning, and might choose to incorporate a message handler to demote it.