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You bet.

Arlo Guthrie is touring (or has just toured) here at the moment. Brought back a few memories, even though he doesn't do "that song" any more. Also, I ride a motorcycle.

echo "$DEITY has called in sick."

The release notes include a section on what's new in the current release. This should provide a fairly comprehensive summary.

The "why" is almost certainly an issue with your constraint and/or derivation expressions. Are you able to post your design overview, with the actual constraint expressions that you're using?

... and, on that basis, you go back to the providers of the XML file and complain bitterly to them that what they're sending to you is not well-formed XML and therefore impossible to process, and require that they do send you well-formed XML.

It why we have standards!

When you promote using Version Control, do you take advantage of the "auto-compile" feature?

The Oracle error codes manual contains not only the meaning of each error code but also, in most cases, suggested remedial action. It's worth having nearby when you're working with Oracle.

The Cleanup button for the project in the Administrator client, as one of its tasks, seeks out and deletes any such "orphaned" Repository objects.

Since a job log is a table in the Repository, you can also use SQL, executed within the DataStage environment on the server or through the Administrator client Command window. SELECT TIMESTAMP, SEVERITY, FULL.TEXT FROM RT_LOGnnn WHERE @ID NOT LIKE '//%' ORDER BY @ID; where nnn is the job number obta...

There is a series of functions for capturing log information. DSGetLogSummary DSGetNewestLogId DSGetLogEntry You can use these within DataStage BASIC code, for example in a job control routine or in a before/after subroutine. Statements for working with text files include OpenSeq , WeofSeq , WriteSe...

Does the user ID you're using have privileges sufficient to SELECT the system tables in the Progress database?
What are the permissions on the PROMSGS file?

Sounds like A=header, B=detail and C=trailer.
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There are at least three different solutions, even without using a Complex Flat File stage.

Overkill.

All you needed was
perhaps through the Administrator client Command window.

If it is, it's in the online help, and you will find the constant in a file called JOBCONTROL.H in the dsinclude directory.
If it's in neither place, then it's not available in 6.0r3. My routine will work for all releases back to when multi-instance jobs were introduced (5.1?).

The COBOL and JCL are generated by DS390 into files on the server. You specify the location! You can upload them from there by any means you like. However, the Upload button is constrained - as far as I am aware - to using FTP and the properties specified in the machine profile. (You marked your pos...

Some plug-ins are chargeable!
Mainly those for which Ascential must pay a licence fee of some kind, such as the SAP extract and BW Load plug-ins.

It's only 6:30pm on the east coast, 4:30pm in Perth (last stop before Jo'burg)!