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by chulett
Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Discard trailing spaces in char field
Replies: 5
Views: 1616

Yes, you need to change APT_STRING_PADCHAR to a space: 0x20
by chulett
Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:06 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Discard trailing spaces in char field
Replies: 5
Views: 1616

Your requirements are bad for a CHAR. If your database target was a varchar, then yes you could 'discard trailing spaces' easily.
by chulett
Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:39 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Discard trailing spaces in char field
Replies: 5
Views: 1616

It's a char field... that's how they work. Everything is fine.
by chulett
Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:26 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: dsjob return status
Replies: 1
Views: 1109

Success. 2 is with warnings, 3 is aborted, etc. All are documented in the dsapi.h 'include' file under the DSEngine directory.
by chulett
Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:21 am
Forum: General
Topic: Server routine help needed
Replies: 6
Views: 3011

That's because it's inside quotes and thus just text. Build the string properly so it can be resolved:

...Failed !\nBody: " : SummaryArray )
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:10 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: DataStage Server Job Control Text Font Change?
Replies: 7
Views: 7608

Yes, 8.5 client and server.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Concatenation
Replies: 6
Views: 2787

DataStage uses a semi-colon for concatenation, let the Expression Builder put it together for you if you are unsure.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:56 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Error 11 in GCI Link initialization
Replies: 4
Views: 6092

Are you current on your fix packs?
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: warning message :DataStage Job 4364 Phantom 6488
Replies: 2
Views: 1812

First suggestion, search. An exact search here for "Nonnumeric data when numeric required" in the Server forum will get you your next steps.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:21 am
Forum: General
Topic: Restartability mechanisms
Replies: 31
Views: 12071

Parameter sets were introduced in the 8.x release, so no. You would have to code something to read the file and loop to build each -param name/value pair.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:57 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: REMOVING SPECIAL CHARACTERS FROM A STRING
Replies: 2
Views: 4024

Please don't post in all caps, it is considered SHOUTING.

Now... are the only "special" characters you need to remove the ones you posted in your example? If so, the Convert() function will handle that easily.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:34 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job without source stage
Replies: 3
Views: 1672

Should be fine, provided you add the missing @.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:30 am
Forum: General
Topic: Popup windows hidden
Replies: 2
Views: 5163

For the record, here's the fix: I would just like to thank you for your posting to my "popup" window issue! I went through the registry and identified the entries that were in error and removed them! now it appears that all the popup windows that were missing are now back! Many thanks for ...
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:07 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Conversion from string to decimal
Replies: 17
Views: 10549

Ah... true. There are no leading zeroes. :wink:
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:05 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Import validation failed - Checked all previous posts
Replies: 4
Views: 6105

Tell us what you do have by posting the information Andy asked for.