I am having trouble with a seemingly simple problem. I have set up a script on file a to find a set of records, perform an external script on file b whose job it is to import those records from file a. There doesn't seem to be any consistency to whether file b imports those found records or all the records. I have restore import order selected on the file b script. Even when I simply go to file b and do a "manual" import, I can't figure out how to make it import only the records found on file a. I know I am missing something simple here. Any help? thanks, mike

An import operation ALWAYS operates on the found set of the file you are importing from. The restore in a script step only deals with the fields imported, not the set of records, that is determined by the current found set of records.

-bd

That is what I have always thought and operated on. Does the found set have to be found from within the script set that the import command is part of, or can it be found first, then a command to another file to then import those records?

I think I just figured it out. I had more than one copy of the file to be imported from - it must have confused one with the other.