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by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:46 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Converting Server job to Parallel
Replies: 10
Views: 3780

The Sequential File stage DOES have a First Line is Column Names property. It's on the Stage tab. Look again.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:43 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to generate sequence Number in Teradata
Replies: 5
Views: 3983

Posting this question on a Teradata forum might be more fruitful, or looking in your Teradata manuals/help files.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:42 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Sequential file input with optional columns
Replies: 6
Views: 1293

Please advise where to find the "Incomplete Column" property in a parallel job's Sequential File stage.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: warning with the license
Replies: 2
Views: 681

The warning messages about licence expiry start five days prior to the expiry date on your licence. On 10/10 your DataStage will stop working, unless you obtain a licence with a later date and update the licensing information prior to then.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem in assiging metadata
Replies: 2
Views: 911

Please describe the job design; in particular what stage type is upstream of your Oracle stage, and what is the data type of the column in question in that stage? I ask to find out whether the conversion mentioned in the message is occurring within your job design, which I suspect, or in Oracle itse...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:20 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Data stage Configuration File
Replies: 8
Views: 12603

:idea: Use file systems with more space available.

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by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error in Stored procedure stage
Replies: 9
Views: 3970

:idea: When setting environment variable values, there is no space either side of the "=" operator. Therefore you needed

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by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Current Time from Column Generator
Replies: 3
Views: 3262

The Column Generator stage has the limitations that Arnd suggests. You need a different stage type downstream (probably a Transformer stage) to insert the current time value.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Release Note for 8.0
Replies: 10
Views: 5789

The Hawk version (except for TX) has not been released. How would anyone have any release notes, then?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How Find Out the last Space or Hyphen in a String
Replies: 9
Views: 3097

Welcome aboard. :D

You seem to have answered a different question, namely whether the final character of a string (ignoring white space) is a hyphen.

That is not the question that was asked.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:58 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: Sequencing the flow
Replies: 10
Views: 2917

That's when you'd need intermediate files. Hopefully "they" have fixed that in the next ("Hawk") release.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:50 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Check whether string consists of alphanumeric characters
Replies: 7
Views: 1429

You've still missed the point. The OP required detection of non-alphanumerics, not non-numerics.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Splitting a Large text file into small files
Replies: 13
Views: 4753

The split command is incapable of changing the file's format if you split on lines. What - precisely - did you do?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:47 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error Reading Char Field from Sequential File
Replies: 4
Views: 2758

Is the "First Line is Column Names" property set to True? This does need to be explicitly set - it does not import with the other format information, because it is a stage property whereas the other format information form link properties. I suspect that this is the problem because the error is repo...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:45 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Converting Server job to Parallel
Replies: 10
Views: 3780

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