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Where's your InvocationID? It looks to me like you're running your MI job in a non-MI mode as I would think it would say "Waiting for job SeqDocSiatcProposta.??? to finish" otherwise.

Post your XPath Expressions.

Interesting, but not what I was thinking of. It was more of a 'Christmas Carol' kind of story - DataStage Past, Present and Future.

Why check if NAME is equal to something *and* like something?

Regardless, return the substring into a new field, select the full name back into the key field.

Vincent has blogged on the history of DataStage over at ITToolbox but for some reason I wasn't able to find the three-part conversation I recall reading over there.

Then that means you're not looking in the right place on the server... or you're looking for the wrong name.

What does the log show as the actual command that was executed?

You need to start your own thread.

FYI, the "from" doesn't matter. XML Output to create an xml target, XML Input to read an xml source.

Depends on the data. It's telling you that you are emptying a 10 pound bag into a 5 pound bag and that it may not all fit. The outcome totally depends on what's in the bigger bag.

So... your job completes without warnings or errors and then you find leftover processes? Can you be precise about exactly what 'phantom processes' you are finding and killing?

Hashed file yes, Universe table no... other than the account/project that is. So all that's valid there is the table name itself, no 'path' of any kind. Now, you can create a hashed file wherever you like and then create a VOC pointer in the project to that location and reference it by that pointer ...

And typically what you'd put for the Data Source Name would be localuv - the equivalent of the current Project. User Name and Password will automatically 'grey out' and be non-applicable.

I don't think I have ever moved a Container stage onto the canvas and built it 'from scratch' so can't really comment on some of your frustrations. What I do is build the job to completion and then create the container from the built stages. To do this, simply select the stages that should be in the...