User receives an error when a DM Flow contains Target Transformation using DB_EXPR: FOC14037

Diagnostics

Product: DataMigrator

Release: 8206 Release: 7710

Primary OS: Windows

Solution Date: 2020-09-25

Symptom

(FOC14037) SELECT STATEMENT THAT CANNOT USE APT CONTAINS DB_EXPR(FOC14037) SELECT STATEMENT THAT CANNOT USE APT CONTAINS DB_EXPR

Problem

The user receives the error message above when a DataMigrator Flow contains a Target Transformation using DB_EXPR.

Solution

To address this issue, make the transformation dynamic by including columns from the source tables. For example:

   DB_EXPR(CAST(RIGHT(SPACE(fld_len) + CAST(COALESCE("T2.QUANTITY",0) AS VARCHAR(fld_len)) , fld_len) AS CHAR(fld_len)))  AS fld_nm

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