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by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:13 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Handling Special Characters
Replies: 5
Views: 2939

:? What? No, I want you to define for us what specifically you mean by 'special' characters.
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Handling Special Characters
Replies: 5
Views: 2939

Re: Handling Special Characters

just4u_sharath wrote:To my understanding trim can only wipe away spaces.

Not true.

Define 'special'.
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Oracle Package
Replies: 14
Views: 4384

Stored Procedure stage.
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:11 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Issue with Aggregating the timestamp filed
Replies: 4
Views: 3632

If you search the forums for your error - No default type conversion from type "timestamp" to type "dfloat" - you'll find you're not the first person to ask this question. :wink:
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:09 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Data is not in order in Hash file.
Replies: 10
Views: 2086

... based on a hashing algorithm, hence the name. Now, if you want sorted output you can: 1. Create the hashed file in an account or create a VOC record for it if pathed 2. Create an index over the desired field (may be optional but certainly recommended) 3. Use a UV stage to access the hashed file ...
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:34 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Stored Procedure Calls using DS
Replies: 2
Views: 1200

One would typically use the Stored Procedure stage... or is DB2 not supported there?
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:33 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Naming a file with the current timestamp?
Replies: 8
Views: 2492

Parallel or Server, you can always use a job parameter for part or all of a filename.
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:30 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Data is not in order in Hash file.
Replies: 10
Views: 2086

Simply answer is - don't expect it to be. If the order matters, resort the data after you extract it.
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Concatenating multiple rows from the same column
Replies: 11
Views: 4792

Define 'quite large'. For rows coming in in a guaranteed order by col1, you can use stage variables to do the concatenation. Standard 'group change detection' on Col1 and, while Col1 is unchanged, build up a list of Col2 values in another stage variable. When Col1 changes, dump out the previous aggr...
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:12 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Issues with Date Formatting
Replies: 3
Views: 1494

Any particular error / abort or do we get to guess?
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:11 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Performance Metrics
Replies: 9
Views: 2822

:? A row who's total length is two bytes.

If you think two-byte rows are good, you can double that peformance using one-byte rows! :shock:
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:52 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error adding new columns with Modify stage
Replies: 7
Views: 3217

So... are you saying you can add new columns as long as an appropriate function is used? :?
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Datastage PX install on Windows
Replies: 11
Views: 4620

Re: Datastage PX install on Windows

ramasubba wrote:seq->tr->seq - compile & run successfully

The assumption here is the compiler must be both installed and configured. Rayo-san. :wink:
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:45 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DS server move
Replies: 4
Views: 2095

In a multiple server install, $DSHOME is not set by default. Read the multiserv.pdf for the details.
by chulett
Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:36 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: rejection logic
Replies: 2
Views: 715

Re: rejection logic

Actually i got to generate sequence ID'S.After that, i'll load d data into DB.So i ll generate the ID'S irrespective of the rejection.So i need to pull the ID'S again without generating again cos am supposed to maintain uniqueness.Is there any logic for single rejection run?and moreover am supposed...