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by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:51 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: updating in oracle table which doesn't contain any key cols
Replies: 14
Views: 3780

You still have to call it Key in DataStage - that's what gets its value to replace the parameter marker in the WHERE clause.
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: problem with longnvarchar column
Replies: 7
Views: 1830

chulett wrote:ps. PITA is an acronym, it's short for Pain In The Ass. :wink:

All these years I thought pita was a kind of flat bread!
:lol:
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:46 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Another PIVOT/TRANSPOSE question
Replies: 3
Views: 1923

"Roll your own" transpose functionality as a Build stage.
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:45 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Setting uvsh directory settings
Replies: 3
Views: 3015

This is non-trivial. You need to change the device width in the same dssh shell as the one in which you execute the query. Therefore your query needs to contain \xFE characters (in lieu of line feeds between commands). Ignoring that for the moment, if your job names and category names are short enou...
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:39 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Strange behaviour in my Sequencer
Replies: 1
Views: 797

Log warnings, so that the problem is propagated upwards to the master controlling sequence. Deal with warnings appropriately there.
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:38 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Convert data from LATIN1 to UTF8
Replies: 14
Views: 7976

How do you expect to manipulate character sets if the tool for doing so is disabled?

The answer is no.

You can try using NVarChar as a data type but no guarantees are made. It may or may not work, when NLS is disabled.
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:35 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Conversion function
Replies: 4
Views: 1130

For starters, stop thinking like a server developer.

You will have to create your own function. Test each character and, if its value falls between 48 and 57 inclusive append that character to the initially empty result variable.
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Dsexecute equlent fn in PX library
Replies: 1
Views: 733

Any of the C functions that can execute a system call.
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:29 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Performance problems-running muliple jobs in parallel
Replies: 3
Views: 1188

Take an Economics 101 class - particular where they talk about supply and demand. You must monitor your jobs under normal (baseline) conditions and perhaps running in isolation under full data load then, from these measures, calculate the maximum demand you can place on the system, and schedule acco...
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:24 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Can't log into uvsh/dssh from unix
Replies: 10
Views: 4491

"do not work" does not work in DSXchange. Post the actual error message.
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:22 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Binary form of an incoming field
Replies: 4
Views: 1040

So you're actually after something like 00001010 for the result rather than 26? In server this would be easy, either via the DTB (decimal to binary) command or using Oconv() with an "MB" conversion. I think there's no convenient expression in the parallel environment; you could concatenate eight bin...
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 6:12 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Lookup problem
Replies: 3
Views: 1867

U did not ask the question. Maybe it will help ketanshah123.
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 5:55 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: counts
Replies: 5
Views: 1924

Please mark the thread as Resolved.

The solution appears to have been understanding how to perform grouping in conjunction with the COUNT set function in SQL - that is,

Code: Select all

SELECT attribute, COUNT(*) FROM tablename GROUP BY attribute;
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 5:48 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job Conversion Utility - Need Clarification
Replies: 2
Views: 1107

It is only available as a services offering from IBM.

Ask your support provider if you are wishing to buy their service to convert from server to parallel jobs.
by ray.wurlod
Fri May 16, 2008 5:44 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Impact and gap analysis
Replies: 1
Views: 1204

How rigorous has your metadata management been?

Get a time machine, redo from start and document as you go.

There is never time to retrofit documentation, in spite of myriad protestations of the "oh, we'll do it later" kind.