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That should be plenty of reason to keep it stable for the time being, not using reflection.
Implement retry on connection issues (this is discussed in PDI-6189)
Usually what is asked is as follows: "My jobs occasionally receive an "I/O Error: Connection reset" while performing DB Lookup steps. This causes the entire transformation to fail. Is there any way to configure the transformation to retry if there are connection issues, or to open another connection?"
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