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by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Transaction handling in Parallel jobs
Replies: 23
Views: 5379

If you have an active SELECT cursor on table abcd, then table abcd will be locked against INSERT operations. Reduce your transaction size to 1 row, and/or set to auto-commit. Even better, select the data into a staging area (a persistent Data Set or Lookup File Set) in a prior job to avoid a self-de...
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:00 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Hashed File error
Replies: 6
Views: 2848

This is, as the message tells you, an internal corruption in the hashed file. From the size of the addresses, it looks like it hit its 2GB limit at some point. The fix is to clear the hashed file of contents (or delete then re-create it) and assert 64-bit addressing, obviating the 2GB size limit. Yo...
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:58 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Execute Command Stage
Replies: 11
Views: 7446

It (error code -4) means that whatever you're providing as a date parameter is not a valid date format.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Transaction handling in Parallel jobs
Replies: 23
Views: 5379

Does the job itself have an active SELECT on the same table?
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Running DS from within an MKS Tools environment
Replies: 6
Views: 1655

's a product name - can't avoid that. Original intention was to provide a UNIX tool set on Windows - folks (and Ascential engineers) just took it to another level.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:11 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Server License Upgrade
Replies: 9
Views: 1803

On a Windows platform it's an uninstall, to clear the serial number (and a lot of other stuff) out of the Registry. The "Microsoft solution"! And you should, you will be surprised to hear, re-boot after uninstalling.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:09 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: configuration file
Replies: 9
Views: 1923

1. No. Just process. As a general rule DataStage does not use threads. (There are, of course, some exceptions, particularly in sorting.) 2. They both have section leader and player processes. The conductor node is usually the first-named node in the default node pool, unless you have specified APT_C...
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:05 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Isnull problem
Replies: 4
Views: 3213

IsNull() returns 1 or 0 (a numeric value). Therefore you can not use it as an operand of a concatenation operator, as you appear to be attempting to do. What data type is your stage variable?
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: load(DB2) doesn`t work
Replies: 7
Views: 4140

Try disabling automatic load and inspecting the control file generated by DataStage.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:58 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Modify Stage AND/OR Transformer Function
Replies: 29
Views: 4685

That's kinda the same part of the world (yeah, not exactly) that once legislated the value of pi to be 3. Not every management decision is clever, or even intelligent. Some things are just not possible; other things are not cost-beneficial.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: MQ Error
Replies: 4
Views: 842

Please post the messages from the job log resulting from resetting the job. There should be three or four events logged.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:52 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: last field null chk fails
Replies: 10
Views: 1540

There are no marks any more - they converted to Euros some time back.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Running DS from within an MKS Tools environment
Replies: 6
Views: 1655

This is precisely how version 7.5x2 works - it doesn't really run on Windows; it installs MKS Toolkit and runs on that. But I believe it's the only version that works that way. Craig: there's a trick you can use to impress your clients. Open up a CMD shell, enter sh as a command (the UNIX prompt app...