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by ray.wurlod
Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:42 pm
Forum: Enhancement Wish List
Topic: Show the true value for environment variable
Replies: 5
Views: 2651

The true value is, of course, reported in the job log. You can use the Help text to indicate what the default value is, perhaps even the parameter prompt.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:57 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: completing a result
Replies: 5
Views: 1066

Seems too complex to me. I'd use:

Code: Select all

Fmt(a.JO_NUM, "L#6") 
by ray.wurlod
Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:52 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: better perforamnce ............
Replies: 2
Views: 816

In general, join in the database itself, so that the ETL tool has fewer rows to process.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:51 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: how to find the data is EBDIC or ASCII
Replies: 2
Views: 909

If it makes sense when you view it in DataStage without any transformation then it's ASCII.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:50 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Memory Management
Replies: 4
Views: 1902

There is an environment variable (APT_PLAYER_MEMORY) that you can set to True to report the memory demanded by each player process. The next ("Hawk") version has some more flexible estimating tools.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:17 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Metadata validation on source.
Replies: 1
Views: 722

Check out the IsValid() function.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:47 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Name column in director contains prompt info from designer
Replies: 5
Views: 1155

It is working as documented.

If you find that hokey, then so be it.

Change your prompt text to be the same as the parameter name if that's what you need. Why do you need to see the parameter name anyway? Generate job documentation; it's all in there.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:45 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: merging two files with different metadata
Replies: 14
Views: 8019

Neither is cat synonymous to UNION. A UNION removes duplicates; cat does not. Nor is UNION a join.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:43 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: need help
Replies: 2
Views: 1464

You already have all the documents. They are in the Docs folder where you install your DataStage client (by default C:\Program Files\Ascential\DataStage\Docs).
The three of most interest to you are:
    Parallel Job Developer's Guide

    Parallel Job Advanced Developer's Guide

    Core Developer's Guide
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:41 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reading or writing the last record to a Sequential File
Replies: 7
Views: 2488

Aggregator stage. Set the aggregation function to Last for every column.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:44 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: merging two files with different metadata
Replies: 14
Views: 8019

cat is NOT the same as join.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:43 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: SOX compliance for DataStage environments
Replies: 10
Views: 4316

Re: SOX compliance for DataStage environments

dnsjain wrote:2. It uses UNIX authentication but allows users to login into DataStage even if their UNIX password has expired.


I would be very surprised if that were true.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:41 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Delimiter for field "COL_NAME" not found;
Replies: 18
Views: 13946

The delimiter character is "|" as stated earlier, but there is no "|" character in any of those records. This would only work if your record schema referred to one field only.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Updating Techniques - Lookup Data [Reference]
Replies: 4
Views: 969

There's a logical inconsistency in your question. If it's static then surely there's no need to update it? Am I missing something here?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Delimiter for field "COL_NAME" not found;
Replies: 18
Views: 13946

Please post the full error message, so you (we) can determine in which stage it is being reported. A S S E M B L Y , T O T E S T T H E F U E L H O S E ( T O P U M P C O N N E C T I O N O F E F I B I K E S ) is the data from the beginning of the first row in whichever file is generating the p...