How to avoid values from being overwriting with nulls

How to avoid values from being overwriting with nulls

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Article ID: KB0078384

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TIBCO Cloud Integration - Connect ( Scribe ) V1

Description

Product: TIBCO Scribe® Online

Issue: Target data is being over written with NULL values in TIBCO Scribe® Online
 

Issue/Introduction

Workaround to prevent target data from being overwritten with NULL values in TIBCO Scribe® Online

Resolution

TIBCO Scribe® Online defaults to overwriting target data with NULL values.  So essentially, without a formula on the linked field, the TIBCO Scribe® Online core does not interfere with NULL values being passed across during processing.  It passes them right to the target connector.  Standard design in Scribe connectors is to pass the NULL to the target API call without making any changes.

To get the opposite behavior in Scribe Online, to avoid overwriting the target with NULLS, requires the implementation of some block logic in the map (e.g. using the IF Block).