MQSeries.net :: View topic - flow-wide variable set once only question

pcelari

Hello,

I use a simple flow:

FileInput out - Compute_1 - FileOutput In
FileInput End-of-Data - Compute_2 - FileOutput Finish File.

The Compute_1 node transforms each record into appropriate format before sending to FileOutput. Compute_2 does nothing except set the OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.File.Name to the same as in Compute_1.

The setting of OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.File.Name involves complicated string manipulation operations.

Since for each record read from the file, exactly the same FileName is assigned to OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.File.Name, I wonder if it is possible to use a flow-wide global variable so it gets assigned only once and used in the two routes, for subsequent records. It can be set to null upon completion of the processing of a file.

thanks for any insight.
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