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Search the forum, where you will find definitive statements - one quoting Keith Kohl, worldwide head of DataStage - that server jobs will continue to be supported for the foreseeable future, meaning at least five years. Probably forever while ever DataStage is a product. There was some FUD (fear, un...

Typically you don't. You create test data and use those data to test that DataStage is doing the right thing. Of course you can. You can use the Transformer stage with no input link as a row generator. Derive all the columns using whatever expressions you like. Include a constraint expression of the...

Search for AddYears or AddMonths. You will find a link to a dsx file on my website with several date manipulation routines of this type.

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Sure. Make use of the Schema File property.

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You will need to re-install. Best practice is to uninstall first. Before doing that, of course, take a backup. Then take a second backup, just in case.

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Install is usually only dimmed if you are logged in without Administrator privileges.

Filter stage uses an SQL-like WHERE clause.
Switch stage uses a value.
Transformer stage uses a BASIC-like expression.

The Field Width property is the Display Size, not the SQL precision.

These ones you can't. Direct them to an otherwise/log link in an upstream Transformer stage.

Either via the Server option in your DB2 stage, or via the APT_DBNAME environment variable, you've specified db2inst2.

The (non IBM) training advertised on my website can be sourced through the parent company of DSXchange (DCS Strategies, also known as On Demand Strategies). Or directly.

There is one (a "leftover") at the sister site www.datastagexchange.com

What happens when you import the table definition? (Use orchdbutil; it seems to be more accurate.)