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by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:20 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Finding Child Level
Replies: 4
Views: 1468

UniVerse supports a WITHIN query that can do this kind of thing as well, but requires a bit of setting up.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Join stage is not giving expected result.
Replies: 17
Views: 4848

Duplication of results can also result from improper partitioning. The Join stage requires inputs to be identically partitioned using a key-based partitioning algorithm. And sorted on at least these keys.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: using of schema file in a parallel job
Replies: 7
Views: 1739

Only it's not always best. It's the one that will work in all circumstances.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: ORA-12154 Error and Possible Job Corruption
Replies: 17
Views: 5695

Go back. The error is "TNS name can not be resolved". Work out why.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:14 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to import the job executable with Design info from Unix
Replies: 1
Views: 1049

1. dsjob only imports executables.
2. No.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem with execute_command activity
Replies: 32
Views: 10005

Put just mv in the Command field of the Execute Command activity.

Put the remainder of the mv command in the Parameters field of the Execute Command activity.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: SQL data type 'BIT' not supported
Replies: 11
Views: 3643

Cast to Integer is probably better for BIT, so that you get 1 or 0 as the result.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:00 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Call to input link returned numeric error code: 19
Replies: 7
Views: 5027

Fault types are documented in a late chapter (appendix?) in the UniVerse Administrators guide which you can download from the IBM U2 website. Don't have time to check right now, and it's one of the ones I have chosen not to memorize.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:57 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: what is the meaning of allow multiple instances?
Replies: 7
Views: 7350

There's a lot less that can go wrong juggling one ball compared to juggling many! Robustness stems from an approach that uses multi-processing rather than multi-threading.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Reject row capturing
Replies: 17
Views: 5119

That "solution" relies upon the database vendor being able accurately to report the correct row in which the error occurs if host array processing is requested. Currently the technology does not permit this.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Checking the Date Modified of a flat file
Replies: 8
Views: 2601

A bit of confusion there, grasshopper. STATUS() is a function, STATUS - without parentheses - is the statement.

Other than that, an entirely apposite response.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Killing process left running from aborted job
Replies: 13
Views: 26185

$DSHOME/bin/dsdlockd -p executed as superuser
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Delete from DB2 Table
Replies: 3
Views: 1402

How about a simple job that selects COL2 from B, and then uses user-defined SQL to DELETE FROM A WHERE COL1 = ?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:03 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: Non Human Name Filtering
Replies: 2
Views: 1426

If you standardize using a xxNAME Rule Set, names are identified as individual or organizational (I or O) in the Name Type (NTxxNAM) column. If you want something more graceful, then you might consider some Pattern Action Language to effect a comparison against the name classification table (xxNAME....
by ray.wurlod
Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Performance Statistics not Showing for Parallel Job
Replies: 24
Views: 5593

Normally the first candidate in this situation is the job monitor application (JobMonApp), which is a Java program that runs on the server. Its task is to collect those statistics - if it is not running (or APT_NO_JOBMON has been set) - then, no statistics.