Informatica Converting string to date

Question

i'm trying to convert a string date from a flat file to a Date data type. what i did is create a new conv out port and use TO_Date ( Field name , 'YYYY/MM/DD') and i'm getting an error ..... this is the error message btw this the date i'm getting from the late file ....

" Severity Timestamp Node Thread Message Code Message ERROR 3/17/2014 4:18:01 PM node01_t41-ccc-03 TRANSF_1_1_1 TE_7007 Transformation Evaluation Error [<> [TO_DATE]: invalid string for converting to Date ... t:TO_DATE(s:' ',s:'YYYY/MM/DD HH:MI:SS')] " please help ....

Sam

Answer 1

从带有NULL值的平面文件中提取数据时，SQ有时可能将长度设为0或1，尝试将特定列的长度更改为10（日期长度），并使用IIF函数加载NULL值。