Flat File as Source in OWB Mapping.

Hi All,
Configuration Details is as follows:
Oracle 9i Warehouse Builder Client: 9.2.0.2.8
Oracle 9i Warehouse Builder Repository: 9.2.0.2.0
Windows XP Professional
I developed a mapping which involves a flat file as source & Oracle Table as target steps followed were as follows.
1. Created Flat File module, selected Connector & Location Details.
2. Done mapping for source file & target table.
3. Validated & Generated the mappings.
4. Deployed the mapping in Deployment Manager.
5. Following was Error Message after execution of the mapping.
Completion Status: Completed with errors.
Meesage Log: Starting Execution of VHM_MAP2. Starting Task VHM_MAP2. RPE-01013:SQL Loader reported error condition,number 4. Completing Task VHM_MAP2.
Following was Control File generated by the above mapping.
OPTIONS ( ERRORS=50, BINDSIZE=50000, ROWS=200, READSIZE=65536)
LOAD DATA
CHARACTERSET WE8MSWIN1252
INFILE '{{TEXT_DATA_LOCATION.RootPath}}dept.txt'
BADFILE '{{TEXT_DATA_LOCATION.RootPath}}dept.bad'
DISCARDFILE '{{TEXT_DATA_LOCATION.RootPath}}dept.discard'
INTO TABLE "{{TARGET_LOCATION.Schema}}"."DEPT"
APPEND
REENABLE DISABLED_CONSTRAINTS
FIELDS
TERMINATED BY ','
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
"DEPTNO" POSITION (1) INTEGER EXTERNAL ,
"DNAME" CHAR ,
"LOC" CHAR
Please note that no message is displayed in Row Activity & output parameters in Deployment Manager.
I worked on lower version of the OWB & in that version there was no concept of Location, Connector, Deployment Manager.
Not sure why the above mapping is failing?
Also I would like to know where can I get more information about the mapping errors which are different from oracle error messages.
e.g. In above case error message is RPE-01013: SQL Loader reported error condition, number 4 .
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Vidyanand

Hi
I'm using single host implementation OWB10g/Oracle on same host.
My flat file location is
c:\source\dept.txt
Pl tell me if I have to save the same file on any particular location for OWB to read.
Implementation in OWB10g
1. Created Flat File module, selected Connector & Location Details.
2. Done mapping for source file & target table.
3. Validated & Generated the mappings.
4. Deployed the mapping in Deployment Manager.
5. Following was Error Message after execution of the mapping.
Can not read data from file
c:\souredept.txt
OPTIONS ( ERRORS=50, BINDSIZE=50000, ROWS=200, READSIZE=65536)
LOAD DATA
CHARACTERSET WE8MSWIN1252
INFILE '{{TEXT_DATA_LOCATION.RootPath}}dept.txt'
BADFILE '{{TEXT_DATA_LOCATION.RootPath}}dept.bad'
DISCARDFILE '{{TEXT_DATA_LOCATION.RootPath}}dept.discard'
INTO TABLE "{{TARGET_LOCATION.Schema}}"."DEPT"
APPEND
REENABLE DISABLED_CONSTRAINTS
FIELDS
TERMINATED BY ','
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
"DEPTNO" POSITION (1) INTEGER EXTERNAL ,
"DNAME" CHAR ,
"LOC" CHAR
Thx in advance

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