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Status Not under consideration
Workspace DataStage
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 19, 2019

Move fields in a UVA/variable activity

I want to able to move a field/variable in a UVA activity inside a DataStage sequence.

Currently you can not change the position of a field in a UVA activity. Especially if you have aleady defined 20 Fields and want to add another one on position five, then you have to add a new field at the end, rename column 6-21 and copy paste the value for the fields, afterwards you can edit field 5 so that it contains the name and values that you want. Also when renaming the fields 6-21 you are not allowed to use already existing names (i.e. you have to rename them twice) or strange effects will happen. This looks like a GUI problem and should not be hard to change, in nearly any other context you can drag and drop fields inside DataStage Designer

This Idea has already been entered as an RFE

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=62123