Too complicated if he only wants the first stacked item. The VAR stage, without the TRACKING option assigns its first input to the variable then shorts. So the take 1 is unnecessary, and one possible solution is simply: PIPE Stack', '|Var expdt', '|Hole' would fit the bill.
Or to build on Paul's question: 'PIPE (End ?) Stack', '|a:Take 1', '|Var expdt', '?a:|Hole' -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support /sp CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List <CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 06/24/2016 09:21:03 AM: > From: Mike Walter <walterthepennyl...@hotmail.com> > To: CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: 06/24/2016 09:23 AM > Subject: Re: the STACK stage > Sent by: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List <CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > Steve, > If you expect three stacked records, are they all the same format, > where 33.8 is an expdt? If so, then do you want to do with each of > those expdts? > Changing your '| VAR expdt' stage to something like '| STEM expdts.' > with three stavked input records containing expdts in 33.8 would > create rexx stem variables: > expdts.0=0expdts.1='xx/xx/xx'expdts.2='xx/xx/xx'expdts.3='xx/xx/ > xx'Where 'xx/xx/xx' is the expdt of each record in whatever format > was stacked. > Mike Walter > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone<div> > </div><div> > </div><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message > --------</div><div>From: "Gentry, Steve" > <steve.gen...@westernsouthernlife.com> </div><div>Date: 6/24/16 12: > 06 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU </ > div><div>Subject: Re: the STACK stage </div><div> > </div> > Possibly,(and I thought of that) but I'm not experienced enough to > know how to code that. This was something I had to get done very > quickly. I may go revisit. > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List [mailto:CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU > ] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 11:59 AM > To: CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: the STACK stage > > On 2016-06-24, at 08:19, Gentry, Steve wrote: > > > I'm not getting the results I'd expect when STACK is the first in > a pipeline. What I thought would happen is the entire STACK is > read into the stream and then proceed onto the next stage. This is > not happening. Here is my code: > > 'PIPE stack' , > > '| take 1' , > > '| spec 33.8 1' , > > '| var EXPDT' > > > Since TAKE shorts the remainder of its input to its secondary output > stream, would it work to connect that secondary stream to HOLE? > > > I will have at least three lines in the stack. These three lines > are created by another command that uses the " STACK FIFO" (w/o the quotes). > > > I've hardly mastered connectors. I'd first try STACK LIFO then TAKE LAST 1. > > -- gil >
