OWB treats variable as a function - any ideas?

Question

Hello
I am learning owb and got stuck with this one problem.
i have successfully validated and generated map with match / merge. however i am having problems deploying it - every time i try - i get the following errors:
ANOTHERONE_MM
Create
Warning
ORA-06550: line 1370, column 6:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
ANOTHERONE_MM
Create
Warning
ORA-06550: line 1372, column 26:
PLS-00222: no function with name 'VIX_TEST_TIME1_4_SURNAME$1' exists in this scope
Having looked into the repository where the package is generated i have found out that the function reported in the error is actually a variable. It is being declared in package body and no references to it exists in package speck.
it is not an external variable - it is created by OWB. Debugging is going well until this varialbe is being applied like a function ?!
I would really appreciate if someone could advise me where i am going or what i am doing wrong here.
Thank you very much for all your help
Kind Regards

Answer 1

May be my description of the problem is not very clear:
I have created a simple map with match/merge (just to see how it would work etc). Followed the instructions as per manual and only used one field to be matched on - surname. Match / merged is defined as follows:
1 group for input and 2 groups for output
Input connection - ingrp1 surname
Input attribute - surname varchar2
Merge Output - surname
Cross Ref Output - surname and mm_surname (mm_ indicated matched and merged)
match bin - surname (as it is the only criteria)
Match rules - All Match
Merge Rules - Any record
the input is coming from table A, merged records should be inserted in table B and matched records should be inserted into xref table.
As i have previosuly mentioned - validation and generation are fine. When trying to deploy - i got messages:
ANOTHERONE_MM
Create
Warning
ORA-06550: line 243, column 6:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
ANOTHERONE_MM
Create
Warning
ORA-06550: line 245, column 26:
PLS-00222: no function with name 'VIX_TEST_TIME1_4_SURNAME' exists in this scope
So i connected to my runtime repository (where all other functions and procedured stored) with TOAD and examined the packaged that was created for my map. The spec is fine - everything complies etc (as it should be). Debuggin body showed the same error as OWB (which what i expected).
Having gone through the generated code i discovered:
"VIC_TEST_TIME1_4_SURNAME" VARCHAR2(30)
p_column=>SUBSTR('VIX_TEST_TIME1_4_SURNAME',0,80),
p_value=>SUBSTRB("VIX_TEST_TIME1_4_SURNAME",0,2000),
which to me looks like it has been declared and treated as a string. Then i goes as follows:
FUNCTION "m1_break_f"(is_buffer_done BOOLEAN) RETURN BOOLEAN IS
BEGIN
IF ( (NOT is_buffer_done) AND ("m1_br_tbl".COUNT = 0 OR
("m1_breakVar_0" = "VIX_TEST_TIME1_4_SURNAME"("VIC_TEST_TIME1_i"))
THEN
RETURN FALSE;
ELSE
RETURN TRUE;
which to me is a function - which would make kind of sense - OWB tries to use procedure that isn't there...
i have looked into spec and there are no references there either.
I would be greatful if anyone could help me to see the errors of my ways and may be point me in the right direction etc.
Thank you very much