ETL Job via SAS DI Studio:Why Precode and Postcode properties of a job is disabled?

If you are an ETL developer and working with the tool called SAS DI Studio. A bad day in the morning could be started like; you are not able to insert code in the Precode and Postcode box of your job properties. The check box for Precode and Postcode is disabled. It's maybe nonsense, you never seen this kind of error before, right??!! Precode and Postcode of the job property look like below:

                       Fig 1: Precode and Postcode of the Job Property is disabled.

What Can go wrong?

If you look at the below picture, you will find three different type of code generation mode.

                         Fig 2: Three different type of Code generation mode

Generally Code generation mode 'Automatic' is selected by default.

                                        Fig 3: By default 'automatic' is selected.

If we want to look at the user defined code then usually we select 'All user Written' which is look like below:

                                    Fig 4: Code generation mode 'All user written' selected.

By mistakenly, if you choose 'all user written' and click 'yes' (see below image) then code generation mode will be changed and saved.

                                Fig 5:Saving code generation mode 'All user written'.

At this situation, if you click on properties and want to insert Precode and Postcode for the job, you will not be able add Precode and Postcode for the job. The option is disable for the job.

How you can Enable Precode and Poscode?

To enable Precode and Postcode we need to change code generation mode from 'All user written' to 'Automatic' and save it.

Then you will be able to add Precode and Postcode in the job and property screen will look like below:

                                        Fig 6: Enabled Precode and Postcode