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LEN should retun 10 but have you tried LEN(TRIM())?

If you already have the detail record following the header record, what else you exactly looking for?

If timestamp or data shouldnt be used, then to fetch the latest information, you need to have another column which represents the version of the data. Or as simply utilizing the surrogate key as Ray suggested, which will increase sequentially.

Unix is also not a cheap product. Unless you go for Linux.

If you intend to check Null you can optionally use LEN(TRIM(Link.Column))=0 which will give you the desired result.
The "00 00 hex" is configurable in Datastage Adminstrator client in Environmental variable.

Download SP2 Patch from https://www.ascential.com/eservice/public/welcome.doc

If that special character creates the line to break, i.e., which creates a new line character, the rest of teh columns might not get data. And hence you got the error.
By specifing explictly, datastage will wait till the specified character is met.

The usual problem. Update with lates service pack. If already been upgraded, search for a patch dsclient xps2.

There are lot of ways for all of your question. If you go through the pdf given for the JobSequence, you might understand that this can be done easily. If SeqA and SeqB are linked to a Sequencer with ALL mode and SeqAB continuing that, your requiement is solved. On failur you can use the notificatio...

Use dsjob command from unix prompt to get these details and divert it to a file.
dsjob -linkinfo/logsum/-logdetail/-lognewest...
can be used for this option.

Perhaps the another General forum out of Datastage. Or New DataWarehouse forum for gateleys option.

Kim has mentioned one way. You can get that from his signature link.
There are some other option from DSGetJobInfo funciton in datstage.
DSJ.JOBELAPSED
DSJ.JOBLASTTIMESTAMP
DSJ.JOBSTARTTIMESTAMP
You can also leverage the
dsjob -log
-logsum
-logdetail options for it.

There are various ways to achive this. Read the file using Execute command activity and pass the value of ReturnValue as parameter to the Notification stage.

If your intention is to collect the records not equal to any of these 'u','i','d', have another condition in filter stage itself.
Else you can find one such scenario in vincents blog, use copy stage and enable the RCP to collect the sqlcode.

If it is well designed, the annotation should give you the full detial of the job.