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ISO8859-1 can not read Japanese characters. You will need to find out how the characters are encoded in the file (for example SHIFT-JIS - there are about 14 possible maps that might be being used) and specify that map.

\\NextNumber is the control record in DS_JOBS that controls the issue of job numbers. Possibly another process was creating a job, possibly another process was killed while owning that lock.

Can you please advise (for the benefit of future searchers) how this one was resolved?

You can edit the rule set components using the rule set management window in Designer. This opens the file using Notepad by default, but you can use Options to set a different editor as your preference.

Scroll to the right in the Columns grid. There you will find more rules, including "contains terminator" and "missing column". For example you could have the stage output NULL if the column is missing.

What do you hope to gain by posting exactly the same question as the one you posted in this thread?

Do you have identically named columns on the Columns tab?

It's documented in the manual as being supported. For Type 2 the target record is marked as expired and no new version is created.

%mon is not a valid date format token. All of the valid tokens may be found in the documentation (manuals or Information Center).

Welcome aboard. You need to dump the score into the job log to determine why one field is behaving one way and the others differently. To do this add the environment variable APT_DUMP_SCORE as a job parameter and, when the job runs, set its value to True. It may also be beneficial to inspect the C++...

Perhaps StringToTimestamp() should be the function you are using. The StringToDate() function has day granularity.

Sometimes we're even expected to do the work we're paid to do!

Are you running a different client version and server version?

It's logically executing the job twice - the same job design executes on both nodes. However, partitioning makes sure that some of the records are processed on one node and the remainder are processed on the other node.

What is the value of UVTEMP in the uvconfig file?

If it's empty, then the engine will use /tmp for some of its temporary files.