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by ray.wurlod
Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:17 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to get previous timestamp field
Replies: 4
Views: 1227

Use stage variables to "remember" the previous value (that is, the value in the previous row). What does "previous" actually mean in your context?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:15 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Warning while running Validate and Load job
Replies: 2
Views: 856

Don't try to use array binding with mixed update and insert statements. Set array size to 1.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Parse question
Replies: 6
Views: 1796

Pivot stage pivots. There are no derivations. Any derivations, including parsing, need to be done in an upstream Transformer stage.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Hi
Replies: 2
Views: 1110

Welcome aboard.

You need to post questions about parallel jobs in the parallel jobs (Enterprise Edition) forum.

Persistent means "stored on disk", to contrast with a virtual Data Set which is in memory.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:28 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: type conversion functions
Replies: 1
Views: 899

Can you please stop asking the same question over and over? :x
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:27 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: 2 Char year - YY Conversion
Replies: 9
Views: 3794

1996 will always be displayed as 1996. APT_DATE_CENTURY_BREAK_YEAR is defined (in DataStage Parallel Job Advanced Developer's Guide page 6-19 for version 7.5) as "Four digit year which marks the century two-digit dates belong to. It is set to 1900 by default." That is, if you have a two-digit year, ...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:47 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Abort of Job
Replies: 6
Views: 1342

Yes, as noted in my earlier post.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:08 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Time stamp conversion
Replies: 1
Views: 1057

TiimestampToDate() function with appropriate timestamp format string in a Transformer stage. date_from_timestamp() function with appropriate timestamp format string in a Modify stage. Dates themselves do not have a format, so the format only becomes pertinent if you then want to convert the date dat...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: uvsh.exe "Memory cannot read"
Replies: 5
Views: 2742

Has your site modified any of the xMEMOFF settings in uvconfig (or, for that matter, any of the settings in uvconfig file)? If so, was the regen operation successful?
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:05 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Concatination of columns
Replies: 2
Views: 1224

Posting the same question twice won't get any better answers.
The only possible stage is Transformer.
Modify does not permit multiple argument functions (such as concatenate) while generators do not use input columns at all.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:03 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Concatinate columns
Replies: 1
Views: 781

Data type string is the only possibility. You need to convert each of the non-string data types to string and concatenate.

This seems to be a strange requirement.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: funnel sequential files
Replies: 2
Views: 1618

Why do you "have to use a Funnel stage" - is this some kind of examination? The Funnel stage requires IDENTICAL metadata on all of its inputs, so you would have to construct these based on your five different sets of metadata. And what fields are required in the output, and from which input file(s) ...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:00 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Abort of Job
Replies: 6
Views: 1342

Number of lines in the file = 2 (header and footer only). This is your "abort" criterion (shudder!). Why not check before doing any of the ETL?
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:40 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: View data error on the dataset
Replies: 2
Views: 1487

View Data on which link?

Please post the entire and exact error message.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Inserting a value for a field in column generator
Replies: 8
Views: 2006

Use exactly the same technique. A Cycle with a single value of 0.00.