Summary
The Link Collector stage is an active stage which takes up to 64 inputs and allows you to collect data from these links and route it along a single output link. The stage expects the output link to use the same metadata as the input links.
IBM documentation
Server Stage: Link Collector Stages - IBM Documentation
Parallel Stages: The Link Collectors is implemented as a combination of Local Container, Copy Stage and Funnel Stage.
Local containers - IBM Documentation
Copy stage - IBM Documentation
Funnel Stage - IBM Documentation
Conversion Notes
Structural changes
The output of the Server Link Collector translation process follows the same structure as the Server Link Collector stage itself: multiple inputs with a single output. The Server Link Collector stage is replaced with an identically-named Parallel Local Container within which is the following implementation:
Each Server Link Collector input link is translated into a Container input link.
The Server Link Collector output link is translated into a Container output link.
Each container input link has a Parallel Copy Stage which acts to rename columns to align with expected output metadata definitions.
Each Parallel Copy Stage is connected to a Parallel Funnel which combines results into a single Container output link based on the Collection Algorithm and (for the Sort/Merge option) Sort Key properties derived from those of the original Server Link Collector.
See Parallel Job Structural Differences.
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