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Hi all! ODI developers often create their own ODI procedures that contains any kind of specific logic/technology on it. Since it’s a custom code, we want to be sure that they are efficient, but also easy to read or show errors/warnings when something wrong happens. Let’s see an example of what can be done in ODI regarding this topic.

I’ve created a simple procedure and put it in a package. If I execute it and something goes wrong, the entire procedure gives an error and it is propagated to the main scenario:

Now imagine that this procedure is not that critical and that we could ignore the errors when it happens. We just need to open the ODI procedure and click the “Ignore Errors” option.

When we execute again, this is what happens:

My procedure step finished with a warning, which is good, but the main package finished with a success, which may be bad. If someone looks at the operator only at the package level, they may never look to see why that internal step has a warning, since the parent is “green”. If the warning is somehow important and we want to propagate it to the parent step, we will first need to understand what ODI checks to set a parent step to warning.

For ODI to cascade the warning to its parent, one of its child steps needs to have the “Nº of Errors” greater than zero. In our case, when the error was triggered and set to ignore, the “Nº of Errors” in the step was never change (it remained 0) as you can see below:

Fortunately, it’s very easy for us to manipulate all those record statistics numbers in ODI. You can use one of five methods below (one for each statistic):

• setNbInsert()
• setNbUpdate()
• setNbDelete()
• setNbErrors()
• setNbRows()

You may create a task in a procedure with Jython technology and just add odiRef.setNbErrors(1) to set the number of errors of that step to 1. Just to get it easier to understand, lets remove the Ignore step option from our example and create a new one procedure, just to set the error number, as below:

When we ran our package now, we can see the following:

Our procedure thrown an error, we caught with a red arrow in the flow and then set a 1 to the number of errors. ODI understands that, when the error number is greater than 0, then it must set the parent icon as a Warning. Depending on the code/technology in your procedure, you may even include the setNbErrors inside of your own code, so you don’t need a separated procedure for that.

Thanks all! See you soon!

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