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Does DataStage have any concept of a NULL key. Ei. An equivalent to the '{}' key specifier in Ab Initio? Suppose I wish to perform a column aggregation function such as max or average over all input rows, where all input rows are treated as one group. Only way I see how to do this in Aggregate Stage...

The documentation suggests that for components with a sort requirement, DS will analyze the incoming flow to determine if the sort criteria has already been met by a previous (sort) stage. If this criteria has not been met it will insert a sort internal to the stage. Questions: 1.) Will DataStage pe...

Any reason why remove duplicates doesn't have an option to output the duplicated (removed) records on a separate output/reject link? It would definitely improve the usefulness of the component.

Is it possible to run pre or post stage commands in EE like you could in Server edition? Only stage that I am able to get this functionality to work is with the Basic Transformer.

I installed the product to my computer to test it, and it placed an icon on my PC... I can run shell commands when I use the executable that it installed but how do I run them from the dos command line? To execute any windows command from command line, the location of that executable must be in the...

Where can I download cygwin and find the documentation for it? Is there a way to do it with Native DS? without installing any other products? Cygwin is free, and you can find more information about it here: http://www.cygwin.com/ I am able to run rsh from a windows cmd prompt, which means you shoul...

mkeevil wrote:DS is running on Windows, can't use rsh right????

You will be able to use rsh and many other Unix like commands if you install cygwin on your windows installation.