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by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job Related Information
Replies: 13
Views: 6562

Interesting... and only a partial answer. Searching for 'EndOfTransmission block' even without the 'block' part only returns this post out of the bajillions here over the years, so not exactly in common use. While I could guess what an EOT block might be, I'd settle for an explanation from the Maste...
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job Related Information
Replies: 13
Views: 6562

Huh... hadn't noticed that, what pray tell does that one do?
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Need some help
Replies: 5
Views: 1620

Good guesses, you may very well be right on both counts. :wink:
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: "like" in Stage Variables
Replies: 9
Views: 3210

Ahhh... revisionist history is a wonderful thing. :wink:
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job Related Information
Replies: 13
Views: 6562

Yup!
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:43 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job Related Information
Replies: 13
Views: 6562

Yes, do that as soon as you are done with the handle, so typically just before the exit point.

:idea: And you need to not enable the 'Disable BBCode in this post' option if you want tags (like the quote tags you used) to work properly. I fixed your post, so just FYI at this point.
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:33 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: "like" in Stage Variables
Replies: 9
Views: 3210

"Matches" has been there basically forever, I do believe.
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:55 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: ODBC Enterprise stage...
Replies: 8
Views: 2373

So use two stages.
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:53 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Parallel job reports failure (code 134)
Replies: 2
Views: 3152

First pointer? An exact search here for "Parallel job reports failure (code 134)" to see if anyone else who has seen this error has any helpful information in their post.
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:48 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Datastage client speed
Replies: 7
Views: 2217

Being a fat client, distance kills speed as you've noticed. Something like a Citrix server, as suggested, would solve that problem for you.
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:47 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: "like" in Stage Variables
Replies: 9
Views: 3210

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by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:46 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job Related Information
Replies: 13
Views: 6562

Where's your detach of the handle?
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:44 am
Forum: General
Topic: Converting Stored Procedure to DataStage Jobs
Replies: 9
Views: 4029

Sure, why not? Once in a great while you'll find things done in a proc that are difficult to do in a job but otherwise it should all be perfectly feasible and make them (typically) much easier to maintain... or at least you can pawn it off on the ETL folks afterwards rather than having to bother the...
by chulett
Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:10 am
Forum: General
Topic: Server Routine output in Job sequence
Replies: 7
Views: 2519

Sorry, never know when to mention that and generally make the assumption that people know you should be targeting active stages, which principally means transformers in the Server world.