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ReadSeq takes its Else clause if EOF is encountered. You don't need to worry about status, codes, or anything else.

... whereas i am sitting about 20,000km from Udo. It's going to be a mad Friday - breakfast in Cairns, lunch in Sydney, dinner in Canberra!

ls -1 instead of DOS /O/B - and, of course, "UNIX" rather than "DOS" as the shell argument to DSExecute - otherwise the technique is identical.

DB2/UDB (universal database) - according to certain IBM sales folk I've met, the only database you'll ever need.

Check (using a different db2 client) that the table actually exists and does not need to be qualified with a different schema (owner) name.

There's no such thing as MetaStage in version 8. Process metadata do get collected in version 8, and stored. They can be used by, among other things, the Resource Estimation tool. It would appear that, in the case being reported here, either the collection of the process metadata has gone awry or th...

Telnet uses well-known port number 23. SSH uses well-known port number 22. It is possible to change these assignments, but almost never worth it.

No spaces around the "=", either.

Run this sequence from another sequence with its own loop. Exit from that loop when the time reaches/goes past 6PM.

There is not.

The columns are not visible when you're entering the conditions. They are visible in the body of the Lookup stage. You may need to scroll down to see them.

While still developing I prefer a sequential file stage if I need View Data capability - they're easier to dispose of afterwards.

As a stub I often use a Copy stage with no outputs - it eats rows beautifully and makes zero copies of them.

Note that the problem is in an import operator, not in an export operator. So the problem's unlikely to be in your Column Export stage. Look at the stage that generates an import operator (which you can determine by inspecting the generated OSH).

I did.

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I just read that gays cause earthquakes. Is it true? (It was in the Hobart Mercury (newspaper - one of Rupert Murdoch's) so it must be true.)

Come on, attribute your sources. None of this "I heard" or "my invisible friend told me" please!

Query is harmless but beware that, once you move to version 8.x, the repository will be DB2, Oracle or SQL Server.