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by chulett
Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:20 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Transaction Management Handling
Replies: 11
Views: 3639

You can't use 'transaction grouping' if you want an 'all or nothing' style load. It forces the transaction size to 1 so that each 'unit of work' is either commited or rolled back together.

If you want all or nothing, uncheck the grouping option and use a transaction size of 0 for all links.
by chulett
Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:48 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: To Append timestamp to file name:filename.MMDD.HHMM
Replies: 6
Views: 1884

Substring ( [] ) or OConv pairs with the proper coversion codes & masks, then concatenate with a dot between would do the trick. Assuming an ISO standard timestamp format: Convert("-","",YourTimestamp)[5,4] : "." : Convert("-","",Your...
by chulett
Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:37 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Jobs aborting due to unknown error
Replies: 1
Views: 850

Been posted before - try searching for "check that 'dbx' and 'sed' are installed and on your PATH" and see what turns up.
by chulett
Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: Menu bar hidden
Replies: 10
Views: 4112

I searched for 'registry' to find that one, but 'menu bar' found 20 matches (including the link I posted) when I did an Exact Search. Ah well, at least the silly thing is back. :wink:
by chulett
Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:40 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Need help on oracle bulk load
Replies: 3
Views: 1298

Should be the same name you used as the 'Database source name' in the OCI stage, a valid entry in your tnsnames.ora file.
by chulett
Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:33 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: XML &apos;
Replies: 6
Views: 3212

As noted above, set the data element to 'XML' for that field and it will pass it through unchanged.
by chulett
Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:27 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Update Strategy in Oracle stage
Replies: 3
Views: 1589

Because the first action has to fail to trigger the second. Without a unique index over your keys, Case I never fails and all records insert. Case II only inserts when the update effects zero records.
by chulett
Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:22 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: To Append timestamp to file name:filename.MMDD.HHMM
Replies: 6
Views: 1884

There would be no 'performance issue' with doing this in a script or after-job routine. :?

To do it in the job it must be a job parameter, then you can use it directly in the filename.
by chulett
Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:20 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Send email for 0 rows in link
Replies: 4
Views: 1615

You need to check the link count after the fact in a separate process. This would typically be done in a Sequence job - a Routine Activity stage to do the DSGetLinkInfo and then triggers to send a zero result to a Notification Activity stage.
by chulett
Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: New Year Wishes
Replies: 15
Views: 4319

Me three! :D
by chulett
Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:47 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: jobs run
Replies: 2
Views: 590

Or the 8.x release, I do believe.
by chulett
Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:46 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Renaming of file in a Server Routine
Replies: 4
Views: 1448

Post your syntax.
by chulett
Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:45 am
Forum: General
Topic: Surrogate Key
Replies: 1
Views: 878

Check out in the Manager or search here for discussions on the 'KeyMgtGetNextValue' routine, that's a good starting point.