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by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Difference between Set and Propagate Partitioning?
Replies: 4
Views: 2987

"Set" is mandatory. "Propagate" is advisory.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:05 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: UCS-2
Replies: 20
Views: 5263

There is already a GB2312 series of maps provided with DataStage. Choose the Show All Maps option in Administrator client.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:04 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Sequential files and long strings
Replies: 8
Views: 1824

Love means nothing to a tennis player.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:03 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Problems handling a ® symbol in XML
Replies: 10
Views: 3493

How is this character encoded? Ought it not to be one of those magic designators, something like &reg; ?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Import metadata (Uni data files)
Replies: 4
Views: 991

The server node name is exactly what is says; the network node name of the machine on which the UniVerse or UniData database is running. If this is the same machine as DataStage server, you use that machine's name, or localhost or 127.0.0.1.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Pattern read in the DataSet Stage.
Replies: 7
Views: 1358

As they say in the classics, "tough bikkies". You don't have any alternative. You could always create ten jobs, that handle one through ten Data Sets, and use a job sequence to decide which one to run.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Pass a job level parameter at command line for running a job
Replies: 7
Views: 1554

You can use encrypted environment variables as job parameters.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: NFS Drive access related question
Replies: 9
Views: 3196

Basically try it and see. Automount is a good plan - it avoids unnecessary manual intervention. Default timeouts are usually ample for anything DataStage does. I
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Naming Convention
Replies: 2
Views: 1058

Whatever conventions are meaningful in context are suitable, provided they are documented, promulgated and adhered to.

:idea:
Do not create conventions so complex that it takes longer to work out what name to use than to create the entire job.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:10 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Iconv/Oconv Functionality
Replies: 3
Views: 877

Only in the BASIC Transformer stage, the use of which is Discouraged, and in before/after job subroutines.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:08 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Sequential files and long strings
Replies: 8
Views: 1824

What's an order of magnitude between friends?!!
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:07 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Join Stage Error - Output File Full
Replies: 7
Views: 3488

<Maxwell Smart voice>
Ah, the old "unbounded VarChar" trick, eh?
</Maxwell Smart voice>
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:04 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: UCS-2
Replies: 20
Views: 5263

If you can't view all maps, you can't build them either. You need to be the DataStage Administrator.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:02 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error while load the data in sequential stage with jobpar
Replies: 8
Views: 1464

Then please mark the thread as Resolved, and post a message indicating what the problem was and what you did to fix it.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:01 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Multipe Sql Commands
Replies: 8
Views: 2586

Does the old "double semi-colon" trick (no, that's not the same as a colon) work" ?

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query1;;
query2;;
query3;