A newly developed job in SAS DI Studio: Why target table not found after Checked In?

When you start working with new tool you will find the tool is buggy (you assume so.. but actually most of the cases it’s you who don’t know all features of the tool).  However, a few cases tool have it’s known issue or can’t report the error message properly.

If you are new to SAS DI, I am sure you will find this post interesting.

Let’s start with a ETL job that which get data from an external file and loading into Teradata table.

       Fig 1: An example job that get data from external file and load into Teradata table

When job is completed we do checked in and so that other developer can review it and can deployed to Production.

Check In Window Look like below:

                                        Fig 2:  Check In Window

After clicking Check In you will find below three steps to do check In the job.

Fig 3: Title and description at while check in.

  Fig 4: Verify the objects that you are checking in

Fig 5: Summary of Check In Wizard

After completing the check In when you tried to open the job you will find below error:

Fig 6: Missing Objects

By looking at the information message you can't identify what has changes until you look and observe your job is missing two objects one is external source file and other is target Terdata table. 

But you have checked in the job, why then those objects are missing??

Well, only by checking  the job you can't expect all objects will be check in automatically. You must need to do check In source file and target table then you will find the job as it should be.

Tips: It's always good idea to do check In even if the job is not completed and check In all the objects related to job.