Problems with pre-mapping process in owb 9i

Hi,
I was trying to use the pre-mapping process operator in owb 9i. Problem is that the manual does not specify how the inputs need to be connected to this operator.
Following is what I went through -
I created a mapping table operator and a mapping dimension operator and connected these two. Then i created a pre-mapping process operator selecting the LTRIM function. Further I connected one of the table attributes to this pre-mapping operator as input and connected the output of this pre-mapping operator to the appropriate dimension operator attribute.
On performing Validate, following error message was flashed -
VLD-2451 : Illegal connection to pre-mapping process operator
I am trying to learn how to use OWB 9i from the manual. So my interpretation of the use of the pre-mapping process operator may be wrong.
In any case kindly help,
Thanks,
Saju

Hi,
Essentially the pre (and post) mapping processes are executed before and after the mapping logic. These are separate procedures in the generated package and are "stand alone" from the main package procedure holding the actual mapping diagram.
If you want to use LTRIM, there are 2 supported ways:
1) use an expression, this means you feed the column you want to do the expression on into the expression operator, open the code editor and select from the transformations (or type ltrim......) and then link the result to the target object
2) use a transformation operator, choose ltrim from the Oracle library and connect the operator as I stated in use case 1
We do not encourage you to use a filter to do transformations, it is better to use the operators that are intended for transformations.
Thanks,
Jean-Pierre

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Hi,
I was trying to use the pre-mapping process operator in owb 9i. Problem is that the manual does not specify how the inputs need to be connected to this operator.
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On performing Validate, following error message was flashed -
VLD-2451 : Illegal connection to pre-mapping process operator
I am trying to learn how to use OWB 9i from the manual. So my interpretation of the use of the pre-mapping process operator may be wrong.
In any case kindly help,
Thanks,
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Pre-mapping process is use to perform some operations preceding to mapping operation itself.
For example, if your mapping is designed to incrementally append data to table for the definite time interval (witch is a parameter of the map operation) you might want to perform the table data cleanup for that period. That will allow for reload data number of time.
In this case you have to define the procedure witch perform cleanup and than include the call to that procedure as a pre-mapping process.
Other examples of pre- and post mapping process is disabling referential integrity before loading and re-enabling them after loading.
Anyway, OWB documentation has clear definition for pre- and post-mapping processes.

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Hi,
I was trying to use the pre-mapping process operator in owb 9i. Problem is that the manual does not specify how the inputs need to be connected to this operator. Following is what I went through -
I created a mapping table operator and a mapping dimension operator and connected these two. Then i created a pre-mapping process operator selecting the LTRIM function. Further I connected one of the table attributes to this pre-mapping operator as input and connected the output of this pre-mapping operator to the appropriate dimension operator attribute. On performing Validate, following error message was flashed -
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I am trying to learn how to use OWB 9i from the manual. So my interpretation of the use of the pre-mapping process operator may be wrong.
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I'm new here and this is my first time posting, so please be gentle! :-)
Running OWB 10.2.0.1.0 on an oracle 10g target db and a 9i source db.
I have a mapping which contains a pre-mapping process and it contains a simple mapping from a source view into the target table.
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I am using OWB version 10.1.0.4.0.
There are two source tables namely src1_tb(id1,field1,field2), src2_tb(id2,field3,field4) and a target table namely target_tb(id1,id2,field1,field2,field3,field4).
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