how to join the two flatfiles using the joiner t/r if there
is no matching port?

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how to join the two flatfiles using the joiner t/r if there is no matching port?..

Answer / sudhar

Connect the source Qualifier of two different flat files to
two different Exp Trans. Create a dummy output port in both
the exp trans. then using that port connect the joiner
Tansformation

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how to join the two flatfiles using the joiner t/r if there is no matching port?..

Answer / jana

yes you can join two flatfiles using the joiner t/r even if
you don't have any matching port for that you need to take
one dummy column in source files and based on the dummy
column you can join them

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how to join the two flatfiles using the joiner t/r if there is no matching port?..

Answer / alisha

Hi Sudhar

What condition we need to give in Joiner transformation to
join tht dummy column.

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how to join the two flatfiles using the joiner t/r if there is no matching port?..

Answer / vin

create dummy1 port in flat file1
create dummy2 port in flat file2

assign the value '1' to both dummy1 and dummy2.

In the lookup condition use dummy1=dummy2. This is going to be always true so all the records are took into consideration.

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how to join the two flatfiles using the joiner t/r if there is no matching port?..

Answer / vaas

Hi Jana,

How can we take a dummy column i.e what r the values would
be in that port? We need to take dummy columns on both files?

could u explain clearly. mi id is vaas31@yahoo.in

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