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In a CMD shell execute the AT command. What do you see there?

Anything. The File Name is ignored when a Filter command is used; stdout of the command is read by the stage. The fact that the File Name field has to be populated is merely annoying.

Version 8.1 (availability announced yesterday) DOES have server-side export and import. More news as it comes to hand.

However, you can explicitely specify the delimiter type in the stage "Sequential File stage" itself.. Let me know if u got ur answer or u want some other clarification... The second person personal pronoun in English is spelled "you" and, in its possessive form, "your". We strive for a professional...

Welcome aboard. Is this an interview question?

If not, can you give a scenario in the context of which you'd like an answer? There isn't really any "one size fits all" answer.

I meant packed decimals within structured data. Sorry for any confusion.

Use a Sequential File stage with a Filter command that turns all four files into a single bytestream, for example cat file1 file2 file3 file4

There is a role in version 8.0 and later called Super Operator which can see all jobs. Something to which to look forward.

DLLs are sometimes tricky. Have you re-started the client machine in the meantime?

When you have any structured data (repeating groups, redefines), when you have packed decimal fields, just to name a couple.

Are they in the same schema/have the same owner, and can you import them one at a time? It might be a timing issue.

MVS Edition (more formally Enterprise MVS Edition) is available for version 8.0. I have it installed but have not yet played with it (busy!).

Do you have SELECT privilege on the Oracle system tables?

Adding columns to the Transformer stage will prove fruitless unless those new columns also exist in the Oracle table.
The error message suggests that your Oracle table still has only seven columns.

It was a combination of factors in the end. First, I had moved from a wire network to a wireless network. It seems that these are slightly differently handled by Windows name resolution. Second, the XMETA user ID that is created by the installation process is created without "password never expires"...