topic DI Studio bug: When reopening saved job, all objects are bundled on top of each other, and all connections are removed in SAS Data Management

DI Studio bug: When reopening saved job, all objects are bundled on top of each other, and all connections are removed

TurnTheBacon — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:55:21 GMT

Sometimes, when opening a job I've made alterations to in the past, all the objects (transformations and tables) are bundled on top of each other in the upper-left corner, and all connections are gone. Have any of you encountered this problem before, and do you know what might be causing it?

Thanks for your attention.

Re: DI Studio bug: When reopening saved job, all objects are bundled on top of each other, and all connections are removed

Patrick — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:28:14 GMT

I have already encountered similar issues. The appear to become less and less frequent the newer the SAS/DIS version is.

Obviously something with metadata is not o.k. so one way to go is to try and run an "analyze/repair" in SMC. What also sometimes helps is to export the job to an .spk, then delete it in metadata and then re-import it. Of course best is you have such a .spk of your job from shortly before the issue occured - and if you're currently working in an environment where you're having such metadata based problems then take regular backup copies by exporting the jobs you're altering (before and after).

Re: DI Studio bug: When reopening saved job, all objects are bundled on top of each other, and all connections are removed

LinusH — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:38:08 GMT

This was quite common in 3.4, but I haven't seen this kind of behaviour since.

If you are stuck with the your current version, make sure that you at least have all available hot fixes installed.