If a restartable sequence aborts, it can be restarted from Director.

Choosing “Reset job” from Director will start the job where it left off.

Checkpoints are always added to every eligible Job Activity stage in the sequence.

There is no way to force a Job Activity stage to return if the sequence got beyond it.

Join

Merge

Modify

Funnel

Difference

Use the SQL type when specifying a schema via a file

The SQL type is what the parallel job data set understands

Use the Parallel tab of the Edit Column Meta Data dialog box to view the SQL type

The SQL type is mapped to an underlying data type that the parallel job data set understands