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by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:58 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Processing Binary data
Replies: 3
Views: 871

^@ is not really binary data. ^@ is ASCII NUL character, or Char(0), which is the default APT_STRING_PADCHAR setting. Your strings are padded with this character because of that setting. Change the setting to 0x20 or simply a space character. You could explicitly get Trim() to remove that character ...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Remove Duplicate Error
Replies: 2
Views: 2775

What columns are on the input link of the RemDups stage, and which of these are marked as keys for the purpose of removing duplicates? What columns are on the output link, and how are these mapped from the input link (look on the Mapping tab of the output link)? Are the data partitioned and sorted o...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: reverting back to 7.5
Replies: 5
Views: 2493

"Modica" would be the plural, however plurality does not enter the argument.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:46 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Migrating 7.5.2 to 8.0.1 and Windows to Unix
Replies: 10
Views: 2679

Yes, it's work. It's not difficult work, if you're systematic about it, even though it is tedious. And you do need to schedule time to do it. But, if you do it well, you only ever need to do it once (per project). Not sure about whether AllowCRLF as the right property. Test this. Create a job with U...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Migrating 7.5.2 to 8.0.1 and Windows to Unix
Replies: 10
Views: 2679

What Vincent means is: export edit the export file (search and replace) import You can do the same with line terminator characters, provided you export with default values of properties included. ExecDOS to ExecSH could similarly be searched and replaced, but you ought to do this manually so that yo...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:58 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: XML Message from MQ to MQ
Replies: 16
Views: 6707

Try putting a Copy stage between the two Connector stages and/or disabling operator combination.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Performance issue while inserting into Oracle table
Replies: 7
Views: 1480

Purely curious, can you ask them why they set the speed low? It doesn't save electricity or anything like that. Seems to me a strange decision to make.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How do i check whether a particular patch installed or not
Replies: 3
Views: 903

Most System Administrators - certainly all the ones I've trained over the years - keep records of what patches (and software) have been installed, when and why.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:45 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Handling picture file through DS
Replies: 1
Views: 827

My advice is not even to think about moving them with DataStage directly. Move them with FTP or some other transfer utility. DataStage is an extraction, transformation and loading tool - what transformation are you likely - or even able - to do on picture files?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:34 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Before/After Subroutine problem
Replies: 16
Views: 5723

How do you determine the exit status in the before/after subroutine?

What happens if you call the transform function from the before/after subroutine?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Ignore one or more keys of an hashed file in a lookup
Replies: 14
Views: 3652

What error message do you get when the query "failed"? Just "it failed" does not help anyone to diagnose it. Have you tried SELECT branch_code, branch_surrogate_code FROM branch_pointer WHERE branch_code = '? ' UNION ALL SELECT office_code, office_surrogate_code FROM office_pointer WHERE office_code...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:25 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: SERVER JOB NOT STOPPING!!!!!!
Replies: 13
Views: 4770

If the job is really still running, compilation will be prevented with a "job may be being monitored" message.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:22 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: DSJ.JobStatus
Replies: 5
Views: 3419

Time to mark this thread as Resolved, then.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:19 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to split into n number of records from one record
Replies: 7
Views: 1699

Can any one please provide the routine for this. That's the kind of thing consultants charge money to do. I still don't believe that "we have to split the dates and premium amount based on the no of premiums" is a sufficient specification. If you had the adverb "equally" in there somewhere it would...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: reverting back to 7.5
Replies: 5
Views: 2493

But surely anyone with a modicum of sense takes a backup before upgrading! DataStage or any other software.