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by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 8:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error in surrogate key generator stage
Replies: 11
Views: 4145

Well, obviously something is changed or at least different about this run from the last one. The rub is trying to determine what.
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 8:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Routine And Exception Handler
Replies: 4
Views: 2441

Out of curiousity, what exactly does your routine return when it "fails"? And when it executes successfully? :?
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 7:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Fmt vs DecimalToDecimal/DecimalToString
Replies: 5
Views: 2124

No, nothing wrong with it and it's out there in posts. DecimalToString() should have worked as well AFAIK, what syntax did you try?
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 4:39 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Extra space between numeric columns in fixed width file
Replies: 5
Views: 1381

Hmmm... isn't the space a placeholder for the sign? Or is it literally between every column, even the string columns? :?
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 4:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Useful Perl Scripts I have written
Replies: 24
Views: 29537

Please edit your post and wrap all of the code in

Code: Select all

[/b] tags (as John did) - this will preserve the formatting.
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 2:59 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Handling Surrogate key
Replies: 2
Views: 1378

By making sure they all "buy them at the same store" - be that a sequence object or by using the same sdk KeyMgt routine key value or whatnot. Pull them from the same source and be prepared to handle concurrency - database sequences do that automatically and there is a 'Concurrent' version...
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 2:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DataStage 8.1 Documentation
Replies: 3
Views: 5519

DataStage 8.1 Documentation

Finally got my hands on the official IBM pdf documentation library for 8.1 and I'm not sure what to think. Sure, the number of documents has increased (I count 56 mysteriously named pdf files that I have) but the "IBM style" they are now laid out in seems... lacking. Many of the illustrati...
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 12:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Upgrade from 7.5.1.1 to 7.5.2.9 failing
Replies: 1
Views: 850

For something like this, it would be best to involve your official support provider. Your error message only comes up in one other post that isn't really answered. And just want to verify - this is an actual in place upgrade of an existing version to the new version, yes? No clue if this would work,...
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 12:34 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Aggregator stage doubling values
Replies: 10
Views: 2855

That would be similar to constraining it to one node. I haven't seen this behaviour when hashed correctly, seems like there must be something set/going on that you haven't mentioned, something critical to the problem solving effort. This is where it would be handy to be looking over your shoulder. :(
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 12:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Any limit to define parameters in parameter set
Replies: 2
Views: 1316

What kind of limit - the number of parameters in a set perhaps? Not that I am aware of.
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 11:08 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Checksum of a file
Replies: 5
Views: 1575

Yup, that would be the best way.
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 10:43 am
Forum: General
Topic: Details required for premium membership
Replies: 1
Views: 612

Seems a little redundant. There is a "Site/Forum" forum which would probably have been more suitable to post in. However, seems to me this really should go into an email to the 'Membership Director' rather than in an open forum. None of us here, including the Moderator, would be able to pr...
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 10:35 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Checksum of a file
Replies: 5
Views: 1575

At a file level? No, there's nothing built in for that.
by chulett
Thu May 14, 2009 10:31 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: job id & sequence id
Replies: 5
Views: 1440

What are you considering to be the "unique sequence id"? Do you mean the internal number DataStage assigns at job creation time? If so, you do realize this isn't a static value, yes? It can change over the life of the job.