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I'm happy to report that, after my 10 second test, this looks to be fixed in 7.5.

I'll have to try this in my 7.5 test project and see as I'm curious about this as well. The general consensus here seems to be it's a bug, but who knows? There is a post somewhere here detailing a work-around. From what I recall, you can either hook up the stage you want to use directly to the curre...

The other problem is that we are using a lookup to a db2 stage using a sql "values nextval" command to get a unique id. This only wants to be run if its a new insert otherwise we'll have unused ids. This should never be considered a problem. Unless you are assigning some sort of artificial meaning ...

You can use the Folder stage just to retrieve filenames but only defining the first column in the stage. The second 'all data' column is primarily intended for use with XML data to feed the XML stages. Also, if you are running 7.5, they've added looping stages in Sequencer jobs to allow you to do ex...

Truth to tell, I haven't made much use of Named Batches but I understand your concern. I'll poke around tomorrow in the office and see if there's something in Version Control that may help. Anyone out there actually using Named Batches or with insight on the issue want to chime in, be my guest... Vi...

Time to upgrade, man! Much goodness awaits, especially in the Sequencer job arena. And cut-and-paste in Designer! And hanging links! And it's pretty darn painless to upgrade.

Join us...

Ah, yes... excellent advice. You don't necessarily need to do this in a different project. Once you are done playing with a few jobs and Version Control, you could simply delete and recreate the VERSION project and then go back and scrape the VC log information from the Long Descriptions of the jobs...

I'm with Vince on the whole push-back-into-dev thing. I only do it when I know something there is borked and I need to "reset" it to the last good version. And, no, it does not show details in the Initialize form - which is unfortunate. It would be nice if it gave us some help in the process, but it...

In what way is it not working? What is it not doing that you are expecting it to do? This option doesn't seem to do a whole heck of alot, from what I read about it. And for it to work at all you have to not use your own "error" triggers in the Sequencer. Other than that, it is simply a matter of che...

You can't - at least not there as it only accepts a single parameter. If I'm following what you need to do, you could write a routine that takes multiple parameters and concatenates their values together, passing the result out. The output from this routine could then be used in the Job Activity's p...

I would be reluctant to advise anyone to move straight from development to production; I would always advocate an interim Test/UA/QA environment. As would I! I just made the assumption that there was stop along the way between development and production for testing. In version 6.x you are pretty mu...

The problem is that it seems with Version Control that I cannot promote by category. I don't have the time right now to fully absorb your issues, but this popped out at me. You can initialize by Category, which in turn means you can (in essense) promote by Category as well. It's one of the right-cl...

That's one thing that new developers need to understand - each file does not require its own stage. Sometimes it can help make the job easier to understand when you do that, but you'll find that when all of the sources have something in common, they can be combined into a single stage. For OCI, all ...

There can be times when you write to one hash file and read from another, all in the same job and using the same hash file stage. So, the fact that they allow that to happen, as an option, is a good thing in my mind. However, it would be nice to have a mechanism whereby you could setup one side and ...

ORCH is short for "Orchestrate", which is the original name of the technology now know as Parallel Extender, or "PX" for short.

What I was getting at is it probably isn't necessary for a Server install.