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EinarRoed
Pyrite | Level 9

I'm working in a User Written transformation in DI Studio. It has a DATA &_output step with the following statement: report_date = intnx('weekday', today(), -1);

The output work table has a column called report_date, which the value for the variable report_date appears in (as 03DEC2012).

If I want the User Written transformation to output TWO values to the report_date column, how do I do it? I basically need it to output both report_date = intnx('weekday', today(), -1); AND report_date_saturday = report_date +1; to the report_date work table column if run on a Monday (so that it outputs the date of Friday and Saturday).

If the job is run on 10DEC2012, the output work table should look like this:

report_date

30NOV2012

01DEC2012

Thanks for your time.

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LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20

You need an output statement after each assignment.

Data never sleeps

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LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20

You need an output statement after each assignment.

Data never sleeps
EinarRoed
Pyrite | Level 9

Whenever I try using the output statement, I get an error saying  "ERROR 455-185: Data set was not specified on the DATA statement". The data step is data &_output;

Is it forbidden to use output inside an &_output data step, and if so, is there an alternative?

UPDATE: Nevermind, figured it out, thanks. Smiley Happy

christinagting0
Quartz | Level 8

what is the solution for this? I'm having the same issue. What did you figure out?

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