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by ray.wurlod
Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:05 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Message Handler for specific Job
Replies: 7
Views: 3026

Once you have named message handler(s) - files with names ending in ".msh" in the MessageHandlers directory - you get an extra option in the dialog for handling a message, and the drop down list of named message handlers becomes available. Choose one from there.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: delete files using ftp
Replies: 3
Views: 1009

Etiquette Note If no-one has replied it means one of a number of things. >> They don't know. >> They haven't had a chance to log in (it IS a holiday weekend in the US) >> They don't care. Very rare at DSXchange. >> They're still thinking about it. "Push" posts such as yours don't really help. Why d...
by ray.wurlod
Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:57 pm
Forum: General
Topic: JOIN TWO SEQUENTIAL FILE
Replies: 8
Views: 5200

That's because Server was specified in the original post. There is no Join stage in server jobs.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Type II Dimension Implementation Using DS 7.1
Replies: 6
Views: 3153

Procrastinate until verion 8.0 is available and use its SCD stage. :lol:
by ray.wurlod
Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Universe Stage
Replies: 11
Views: 5868

Why? It all changes completely in the next version.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to read Microsoft Excel file as data source?
Replies: 7
Views: 3695

Check the box that says something like "include system tables". For some strange reason (all complaints to billg@microsoft.com) the ODBC driver for Excel treats worksheets as system tables. They come in with "$" prefixes.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:04 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Remove the warnings
Replies: 5
Views: 1287

Orchestrate Operators manual is where handle_null() is documented.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Query regarding validation
Replies: 2
Views: 860

1. IsAlpha()
2. IsAlpha(Substring())
3. Index()
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:00 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Regarding shell script
Replies: 3
Views: 1134

... and then what? If the script is invoked from DataStage it must provide ALL responses to the shell script, including the command to end the session. I assume, because the question is posted in a DataStage forum, that such is the intention.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:58 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Timed out while waiting for an event
Replies: 2
Views: 1073

Use some of the other reporting environment variables, to capture the process IDs of the player processes and their memory consumption. Relate these back to your UNIX system monitoring.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:57 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: join datasets
Replies: 8
Views: 2211

Usually because the input data sets are not identically partitioned and sorted on the join keys.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Negative Elapsed Time (- rows/sec link count)
Replies: 8
Views: 2346

Yet another reason not to rely on rows/sec as a throughput measure!!
Consider the impact if the times differed in the opposite direction - you'd be complaining falsely about poor performance.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:46 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: DataStage Job 113 Phantom 21941
Replies: 4
Views: 3472

Find the name of the routine that is being called and make sure it is properly cataloged in the VOC.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:44 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Viewed data is different from data being processed
Replies: 10
Views: 3240

You weren't using two different routines, each of which used Select List #10, by any chance?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Operator Role problem
Replies: 13
Views: 3254

chulett wrote:Hmm... I think there is a Dilbert cartoon about trying something over and over, expecting it to eventually work the way to want it to. :wink:


This one?

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

-- Benjamin Franklin