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Kumar, I hate to admit it here, but I have years of COBOL experience on both host and mainframe - but I have never seen a PIC -B(4)9V99 datatype and have no idea how it might differ from either a 9-type or even a COM-x type. From the label it would seem to be "blank" but I remain at a loss. If you c...

This is a very odd scenario - I have a simple sequencer that used to work to which I made a minor change and now it fails to compile, even when I revert the change. I get a compile-time popup window stating Error compiling Job Control Subroutine JsDSSFCRActCarBookPostSyncro . When I click on the "mo...

Kumar, thanks for the cut-and-paste. But you didn't really think about the real question. Anything in binary is in binary; there is no conversion done between an ASCII "binary" and an EBCDIC "binary" - in fact a binary field can, by definition, be neither ASCII nor EBCDIC. From your post you are rea...

Vmcburney, I have seen that the C compiler on our machine has a limited number of licenses for concurrent use and the process will just sit there and twiddle-it's-thumbs waiting for a free slot; so we sometimes get long wait times because of that bottleneck. I've noticed similar seemingly inexplicab...

I think that DataStage is padding the Bit fields to a byte boundary and thus getting an incorrect length computation. If this data is EDCDIC then you will want to ensure that the data is NOT being converted to ASCII as this would change all the bit flags. I would define this file as having just one ...

This is a line termination issue. Under DOS or on PCs you typically have a <CR><LF> line termation character sequence. On UNIX the default is just to have a <LF>; as you were posting under a UNIX environment we assumed that you were using default termination. But then I made the mistake of using CHA...

Kumar,

instead of just writing an answer, let me pose a question to you:

What is the difference between a binary EBCDIC and a binary ASCII?

Titto, Suggestions/Questions: -are you getting an abort in the log file when opening in the file?, i.e. an incorrectly formed path? try putting "Counter += 1" and "CALL DSLogInfo(Counter,'')" inside the loop and seeing if it loops for each line. If you test from within the manager you will need to d...

Another method would be to use a Routine activity from a sequencer before re-calling your job "x"; in there use the DSGetJobInfo("x",DSJ.JOBSTATUS) to get the last run's status, return that code to the sequence and decide upon the action to do there.

Craig,

this looks like a continuation of a thread last week; and if that is the case then the answer to your question "yes"

Pavan, columns in your stages have the naming convention <stagename> [b].[/b ]<columnname> . Since we know neither your stage name nor your column name people will most often use examples like Link.Column or, in my case, In.Line or In.Column . All we are referring to here is the name of the column t...

snassimr, no, none of these tools actually look at the disk size of the physical file, they only know about the logical view of the file and it's contents. You will need to use your OS and get that information from there. You do have a UV/Basic function called FILEINFO() which does give you a lot of...

The only way to guarantee that you don't repeat a number when you use a RND function is to keep track of those number already used. If you seed your pseudo-random number a the same point you will get a reproduceable series - but it will, by definition, have duplicates. Another approach is to create ...

Another way to do this, in addition to Ray's suggestion, is to declare the bit-level fields as CHAR (of appropriate length) and then use the OCONV(In.BitString,"MB0C") to get a longer character string with each character being a 0 or a 1.

info_ds wrote:hi ray,

i tried and got the result --> 19950512

any suggestions?

No suggestions from anyone, it works just like it is supposed to.