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There's no "loop" in the Command Stage, it should just be generating a snapshot, a static list of the files available at the time it ran. Sounds like you have an "extra" delimiter at the end of your list, something causing it to loop one more time than it should. Verify that and ...

Thanks... missed the distinction for some reason. Agree that that makes sense as being the best approach to take in situations like this.

Doesn't the Parallel Job Developer's Guide go into quite a bit of detail about the differences between the Merge, Join and Lookup stages?

What kind of "custom stage" are you thinking of? Seems to me pretty much anything "custom" in a Sequence could be handled by either the Routine Activity or Execute Command stages.

sbass1 wrote:

ray.wurlod wrote:Yes you can; in a trigger expression it's clearer to use OR conjunction.

Matches was just easier to input

Hardly the best criteria for making the decision regarding which one to use.

How is this any different from the question you posted here yesterday?

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I'm curious... these changes are strictly on the source side and your target is more generic / can absorb these changes? Or are they tightly coupled and the changes need to be reflected on both ends?

Yes, we're fine with this discussion here. Questions about the client tools, Sequence jobs, generic DataStage questions and the like are all best placed here. And now that I ponder it, all I can swear to is it still being there in 7.5.1a. I only had 7.5.2 installed for a few of days on a test Itaniu...

It's going to affect your loads even more in three days.

Guess again. If it was we'd have solved this by now. :wink: So... this process launches every five minutes, eh? And yet your stream of jobs runs anywhere from 10 to 50 minutes? How are you ensuring there's no contention there, no locks or collisions amongst the processes? And this script... after it...

Hmmm... I certainly saw it up through 7.5.2.

Ah, there it is.

Ray, I'm a little disappointed... I fully expected to see both of these answered with something about "the interview".

PhilHibbs wrote:Later versions of Director no longer have this check box

Really, I wonder why they decided to do away with that.

Does "later versions" mean 8 and up?

Really? That's interesting, Vincent. I could have sworn that "only from 7 to 8" upgrade advice came from IOD but could very well be wrong.