OWB Process Flow and Mapping Differences

IHAC where we have a mapping which produces two different operations depending on how the mapping is called from the Deployment Manager.
When you call the mapping as an individual job an INSERT is performed.
However, when the SAME MAPPING is called as part of a process flow a MERGE is performed instead.
The test data for each case is exactly the same and the result set at the end of the mapping, using either, method is the same.
Has anyone come across this sort of behaviour before ?
I would be grateful to know why this is happening and should I be concerned about it given the fact that the outcome is the same in both cases.
Thanks in advance
Chris

Hi Christopher,
This is funky. I have not seen this before... The only thing I can think of is that in the process flow someone changed the runtime parameters for the mapping, doing a set based execution while the map itself is doing this row based...
Should not happen otherwise...
Jean-Pierre

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