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Does this non-existent file show up in the repository tree? If so, you might have a few problems getting rid of it. You could try to provision the PAT file by itself, to see if that flushes the reference out, making it easier to provision the whole ruleset. Otherwise, you could export the entire rul...

mdemerick@dow.com wrote: Instead, I get an error:

"Standardization process failed.(Invalid entry in convert tbl
Error occured on line 50 of file ... SIZE.PAT
Offending convert tbl line: AMP

Do you have AMP listed twice in the lookup table?

This should be an easy one for most of you. Unfortunately, it's not mentioned in the documentation. I have a pattern with one recognized token. It is a mix of numbers followed by letters. I know I can separate them using (n) and (-c), but I need to get them into their own tokens for further process...

Is there any way to really debug QuailtyStage? Specifically for the rule sets. You can't step through a ruleset (Wouldn't that be nice! Anyone from IBM listening?), but you can write your own trace code into the ruleset itself. Not hard to do, but pretty time-consuming depending on what you want. M...

Hi all, Is there there an issue with DS Designer holding some sort of exclusive lock on a database connection object? This might be a hard one to explain, but here goes... Take 2 users (A and B). - A user (A or B: doesn't matter who creates it) creates a database connection (Oracle data access [PxOr...

If you have done much work with DS 7.5, then you could probably get by without the QS V8 course as far as everyday usage goes. V8 is now more like DS but with a few new kinds of operation that let you do the stan, match, parse, etc. That's of course if you know QS 7.5 and want to move to 8. If you k...

Hi all, Is there any way at run-time to tell an investigate stage which ruleset it should use? I am trying to put together a process for some data-driven some word investigation: get a list of columns to be investigated from a table and loop through them, setting the ruleset for each one. Can this b...

A quick note to those new to version 8 (myself included): if you make changes to a ruleset and they don't seem to get picked up after you save and close the ruleset dialog, select the ruleset objects in the repository explorer window, right-click and Provision All... Worked like a charm where nothin...

Hi all, I've copied an existing ruleset and made some mods, including changing some of the fields in the DCT & PAT files. Now I get this when I try to use it in a standardize stage: STAN_Email__URL: When checking operator: The modify operator keeps field "EmailAddress_VEMAIL2" which is...

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Sure you're not missing a few tokens here (between all of the consecutive pipes I bolded)?
Maybe a "vacuous operand" means it reckons you forgot some tokens in your pattern.

Sorry Ray, can't read most of that reply.
I guess what I'm specifically talking about is things like engine bugs.

I've hit one where the value in a destination field becomes prefixed to [2] of the following pattern. Problematic, to say the least.

Hi all,

Does anyone know of an FAQ or reference guide for PAT files other than the PDF that comes with the client install?
The lack of support documentation is really starting to annoy me...

ray.wurlod wrote:Is it really Avenue, or is it Apt (Apartment)? That it is followed by a 1 (which you're putting in UV1) suggests the latter. Perhaps this particular A (in this particular pattern) needs to go into U ...

abc123, my stuff will do what you ask, but Ray's got a darn good point here...

But how would you tell QS this: "Interpret A as Ave in this situation"? Putting something like this in the PAT file would do specifically what you asked: ^ | + | I="A" | ^ | $ copy [1] {HN1} copy [2] {SN1} copy "AVE" {ST1} copy [4] {UV1} retype [1] 0 retype [2] 0 retyp...