Thanks to Jason and Mark for suggestions.
Jason, Trying an Oracle Data source with the same parameters failed spectacularly, with errors in the log, but it did put me on the patrh to a workaround.
I believe I have stumbled on an FME bug, would appreciate your comments.
The final workaround was to use a concatenator immediately before the joiner. The concatenated Item was my transform lookup key (in lower case) and the destination attribute a made up key MYKEY (uppercase). This worked fine but then I got to thinking what if I made the made up key MKEY lower case mkey? So that worked as well destroying my theory of a bug.
Then I removed the concatenator and put my workspace back how it started when I first posted on the forum. ARGHHHHH. That worked as well.
If I had any hair left I'd be tearing it out.
I don't get it. Yes, I do have a working transform but it's taken best part of two days debuging/experimenting and the endpoint is actually the start point!
I still think FME is a fabulous tool though and just hope that one day I'm smart enough with FME to contribute more to the forum.
Richard Wilkinson
Systems Analyst
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