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by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How datastage works
Replies: 4
Views: 2944

It takes 12 years to get 12 years worth of experience. Begin by reading the manuals and online help. Then ask specific questions. DSXchange (ignoring the soon-to-be-announced Learning Center) is not a source for general training. Take a class or three.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:32 pm
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: Unable to select rows from the table
Replies: 2
Views: 2413

How are you trying to do this? A proper column analysis should investigate all rows. There is the capability to work from a sample, but not - as far as I am aware - any capacity to select rows.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:41 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Problem in adding new project
Replies: 2
Views: 732

Disk full?

You haven't really given us much to go on!
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:35 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: INSERTing maximum value
Replies: 17
Views: 4634

Get it via a Lookup stage whose reference link is fed with the query SELECT MAX(keyvalue) + 1 FROM targettable and which is partitioned Entire. Downstream of that use a column generator to add a sequence column beginning at the partitionnumber and incrementing by the partitioncount, and use either a...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:32 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Catching all duplicate and non duplicate records seperately
Replies: 6
Views: 1773

My solution works in parallel mode. The Aggregator counts the members of each group. The filter stage only passes rows for which the count is greater than 1. ----> Copy ---------------------> Join -----> Copy -----> RemDups -----> | ^ | +-------> Aggregator -------+ +----------> Filter ----->
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:31 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Compilation hangs forever
Replies: 8
Views: 1905

No, because IBM don't document that. We know there must be a limit because we're software engineers, and there's no such thing as unlimited memory - you always design maximum sizes for things. Years later, you wonder why you thought so small - was it not a young Bill Gates who asserted that 640KB is...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Taking care of PST and PDT timezones in datastage
Replies: 2
Views: 817

If you are using server jobs (which one can assume from the forum in which you posted your question) you can use Oconv() to determine the current time zone.

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Oconv(Date(), "DZ")
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:39 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: A basic question on Database stage
Replies: 4
Views: 1676

Typically the database server will establish the result set and the DataStage job will establish a cursor into the result set, fetching an array of rows at a time. There are variations on this theme, but in no case (in server jobs) does DataStage cache the entire data set in memory.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:56 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error vmdsobj.dll while opening DataStage Designer
Replies: 9
Views: 4930

Which particular user name and password? There are at least three now. One for the deployment domain, one for DataStage, and one for Oracle.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Unable to Open Expression Editor in Transform Stage
Replies: 7
Views: 2134

If you right mouse on the expression field does a menu appear? If so, is "Edit Derivation" on that menu? If so, what happens when you select that option?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: SQL Serve Password with Escape Character
Replies: 3
Views: 1586

Is the first character a space or some non-printing character? It's possible that, if it's a space, it's been trimmed. I know that's not correct (and would be a bug), but that's my guess.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:36 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: View generated objects
Replies: 7
Views: 1730

No. The whole point of premium memberships is to fund this site's bandwidth costs. Shell out - it's less than 30c per day. There's no point providing a long answer to your question at this time. On the other hand, if you want to purchase customized training, then please consult my website for offeri...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:34 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error_When_Opening_dataset
Replies: 8
Views: 1832

Please post the record schema associated with the Data Set, as reported using the Data Set Management tool in Manager (or orchadmin command).
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:32 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: MOdify Stage: Multiple specifications for same source column
Replies: 4
Views: 3867

newcolumn:nullable datatype = function[options](inputcolumn)
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error vmdsobj.dll while opening DataStage Designer
Replies: 9
Views: 4930

IBM are very specific about this.
For IBM Information Server the only choices are:
    DB2 version 9

    Oracle version 10g

    SQL Server 2003