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I say go for Craig's solution. Build a small routine that checks for file size and uses DSSendMail().

chulett wrote:Hmmm... I'll let Ray respond to that.

Not possible huh? Legal issues ....

Thats a good practice. Makes it clear to everyone. Ray, you should consider writing a book. It will be a great seller, and you can call it "DataStage for dummies"

As noted, I sincerely doubt the patch will help with that but you should apply it regardless. I never pick job or routine names from inside an Activity stage any more. Not once I found out all you had to do was click and drag the job or routine onto the Sequence canvas from the Repository window an...

ray.wurlod wrote:Why shocked? If you remember the sixties you weren't there?

Well I am shocked because of your diversity in knowledge and pass times. If i recall, you even play a sitar, right?
And no I was'nt there in the sixties

You need to set your enivronment variables first. Follow the instructions in the post embeded in naraishma's post.

Should have asked you this before, what such functionality are you looking to implement?

just4geeks wrote:Wouldn't it work then?

If the space is enough to accomodate the data.

See if thispost helps.

Read about Field(). It works along the same lines.

You can also use DSExecute() if your thinking of doing this via routine.

kduke wrote:Ray you shock me.

Your not alone Kim.

Search for it here. It has been discussed a number of times. Here is a start.

No estimate on my part, usually the DSXchange window is open and when i get a break from my work, I come back and reply to posts. Usually I do multi-tasking. I am sure others do the same.

Two pages into the post and the error was right there in the log file. Please post complete error messages from the log file.