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by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Output to a flat file of the following structure
Replies: 2
Views: 1199

Not easily using a Sequential File stage. Only one record format is permitted. You can use multiple Sequential File stages each writing one record format then assemble the resultant files into one with a cat command. Or you could specify the table definition for the Sequential File as a single, larg...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to read redefines using parallel complex flat file stage
Replies: 10
Views: 2730

So what, precisely, is the problem that you are having? Is the metadata on each output one of the redefined table definitions? Are you getting any error messages logged by the CFF stage? If so, please post the exact text.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:22 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to read .dtl files
Replies: 15
Views: 4748

The Sequential File stage reads a line at a time. You would typically pass this line into a Transformer stage and have as many outputs from that as there are different line types. You can derive whatever data you derive from each input line on its own output link. And then send them wherever you wil...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:19 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: reading file names from a windows dir
Replies: 7
Views: 1914

Or you can use the fact that DataStage can treat a directory as a table in which the file names are the keys.

Code: Select all

OpenPath directory_path To file_variable
Then
   Select file_variable To 10
   ReadList Ans From 10 Else Ans = ""
End
Close file_variable
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Unable To Open Job Activity in DataStage Sequence
Replies: 10
Views: 3461

Who's on first? (Don't go there.) For younger participants and those who haven't been exposed to the great radio comedies of the 1930s, that quote is a line from an excellent and hilarious comedy duo called Abbott and Costello. There are still some around who can do the whole thing. You can probably...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:11 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Dates (Datetime) comparison in Routines
Replies: 10
Views: 2844

Neither Iconv nor Oconv work with timestamps. You must first separate the date and time components, and convert them (if needed) separately.

Timestamps in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) can be compared accurately as strings.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:09 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: match output's
Replies: 9
Views: 2926

I can only ask "what changed?" - not only in QS but also on the system(s).
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Unable To Open Job Activity in DataStage Sequence
Replies: 10
Views: 3461

What I actually said was "uninstall SP2 OR get the patch". Small semantic difference!
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:19 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Converting EBCDIC vlaues to UTF8 with NLS enabled
Replies: 1
Views: 1190

Try setting the NLS map (at least on the Sequential File stage) to NONE, then using the ASCII function, or one/some of the SDK utility functions, to effect the conversions.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Importing Meta-Data from Universe
Replies: 5
Views: 2986

This isn't the VOC any more. Now it's the fact that there are I-descriptors (called $DUMMY1 and $DUMMY2) in the file dictionary of APRECON.HIST but these I-descriptors are not in a compiled state. Use the COMPILE.DICT (or CD) command in UniVerse to compile them.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:04 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: match output's
Replies: 9
Views: 2926

Check in the Data directory of your project. Are they there? Have you changed your run profile, such that you're specifying a different master project directory pathname?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: client and server in data stage
Replies: 2
Views: 2272

The DataStage server is only a server to the DataStage clients. At run time it is a client to the database servers to which jobs connect.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:52 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Exception table
Replies: 5
Views: 1047

Yes. There is a paper on that very topic at Information on Demand 2006 conference.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to read .dtl files
Replies: 15
Views: 4748

To read the file specify #$DSLOGDIR#/#JOBNAME#.detail in the Filename property.

Do whatever you like with its rows in the job design. Multiple output files requires multiple output links, probably from a Transformer stage.