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by crystal_pup
Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: Architect certification
Replies: 2
Views: 2447

Architect certification

Hi Folks So its been almost 9 years working on different versions of Datastage and gaining a lot of understanding on Data Modelling stuff. I am now thinking of using all my experience and expertise to jump into the bandwagon of ETL Architect / BI Architect / Datawarehouse Architect. However , I woul...
by crystal_pup
Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:25 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Changing date format from YYYY-MM-DD to DD-MON-YY
Replies: 4
Views: 4820

DateToString(DSJobStartDate,"%dd-%mmm-%yyyy")

I used DSJobStartDate as an example, you can substitute it with your input date.
by crystal_pup
Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:24 am
Forum: General
Topic: How to login IIS webconsole V9.1?
Replies: 4
Views: 5472

http://<servername>:9080/ibm/iis/console/loginForm.jsp?displayForm=true

If you login to administrator, you will find a link at the right bottom corner namely "Suite Admin". Clicking on it will also take you to the web console.
by crystal_pup
Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:21 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: compilation error in transformer
Replies: 8
Views: 12663

Is Joined_DATA_200 an input link? Can you share the metadata of the input link?
by crystal_pup
Fri Jan 03, 2014 4:57 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: String to Timestamp Conversion
Replies: 10
Views: 7466

In case if "User Variable Activity" is used in a sequence then Oconv,Iconv functions can be used
by crystal_pup
Fri Jan 03, 2014 4:07 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: String to Timestamp Conversion
Replies: 10
Views: 7466

Try using Oconv,Iconv functions
by crystal_pup
Thu Nov 28, 2013 3:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: how many patches are released for 8.7 DataStage version
Replies: 2
Views: 2030

A quick google search fetched me the below link.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg24032115
by crystal_pup
Wed Nov 27, 2013 5:53 am
Forum: General
Topic: The IBM IOD presentations can be downloaded by anyone.
Replies: 1
Views: 2032

Thanks for the link Vincent! :)
by crystal_pup
Wed Nov 27, 2013 5:05 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Transformer: No input sort key information found
Replies: 2
Views: 3235

LastRowInGroup function does require the data to be sorted. "A key break can be detected on any column, as long as the input data has been sorted on that column. The data must be sorted in the job, so that the Transformer stage can detect that it is sorted. If the data is sorted before being in...
by crystal_pup
Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:31 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Integer to Char conversion questions
Replies: 12
Views: 8201

hmmm i tried exactly what you have coded and in my target table (created on Netezza), I am not seeing any "??" suffixed in the data.Also, i didn't make use of APT_STRING_PADCHAR in my job.
by crystal_pup
Mon Nov 25, 2013 6:34 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: TimeStamp with Microsecond
Replies: 6
Views: 3950

You can try something like this :- Before populating the data into Teradata, use a case. Within the case , cast the said column into varchar and check for its last three substring values (and may be another cast is required to integer for comparison) if it's greater than 499. If it is greater than 4...
by crystal_pup
Mon Nov 25, 2013 6:28 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Integer to Char conversion questions
Replies: 12
Views: 8201

Can you try using "APT_STRING_PADCHAR" in the job and set its value to 0x20
by crystal_pup
Fri Nov 22, 2013 4:04 am
Forum: General
Topic: Passing parameter with spaces to Execute Command Stage
Replies: 12
Views: 7411

I created a sequence (no environment variable used) with only execute command activity and passed the following command (under the command option) in it :- echo "Overtime Reporting/Cubes" Output --> "Overtime Reporting/Cubes" Then, Passed following under command option - echo Pas...