Error when mapping start date to hire date in GTC

Question

i'm trying to use gtc trusted recon to provision users in OIM. i am trying to include a start date in my flat file and mapping that to Hire Date on the OIM column in the gtc connector.
i'm seeing the following exception:
<Mar 28, 2011 2:10:57 PM EDT> <Error> <oracle.iam.reconciliation.impl> <IAM-5010000> <Generic Error/Information: {0}
oracle.iam.platform.utils.SuperRuntimeException: -9: Attribute field (HIRE_DATE) does not exist in table USR.
     at oracle.iam.reconciliation.dao.ReconActionDao.executeBulkUserMatchCRUD(ReconActionDao.java:697)
I've tried a couple of different things here. I first tried supplying the start date field in my flat file with my source data format as yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm:ss z
and the value in the file as 2011/03/29 06:30:00 EDT. when that didn't work, I set the variable in the staging of the gtc to a literal value (2011/03/29 06:30:00 EDT) instead of getting it from source. But in both instances I'm seeing the above exception. anyone seen this before
thanks

Answer 1

rajiv, you are saying to create a new user defined field which i would then map my start date field in gtc to?
first question with this approach is, shouldn't i be able to use the OOTB Hire Date? Or are you saying this is a bug in OIM
second, i did try your suggestion, but it is still not working. i'm no longer seeing that error, but at the same time i'm not seeing any exceptions in any of the logs