Hi,
You can have a row generator generating a dummy row which you can funnel with the data from the dataset and then do the lookup. In this case you can avoid DB stages and the job will not abort even if the reference dataset does not have data.
HTH
--Rich
Search found 357 matches
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 4:52 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Lookup using DataSet
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5063
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:24 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: sql statement in odbc connector
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2263
Hi, Yes you have to import the required columns from both the tables into the stage and use user-defined SQL. My advise for someone new to DS would be 1. Do your homework before posting questions. Just go through the official documentation. 2. Always give it a shot. If it works good. If it fails the...
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:08 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: TD API Load Performance
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3319
Hi, I hope you know the difference between a SET table and MULTISET table. A SET table does not allow 2 rows to be exactly the same. So whenever an insert happens the duplicate row checking happens at the background. How many columns does the table have? If there are too many columns then the duplic...
- Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:26 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: About the two parameter with teradata EE stage
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2087
Hi Leo, These 2 parameters define the connections to the Teradata DB and is related to the number of AMPs in the Teradata Database. Talk to your Teradata DBA about the configuration of the DB. Requested Sessions = No of connections to the Teradata DB. Usually it would be the number of AMPs. Set betw...
- Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:16 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Change capture stage insert issue
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2139
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:07 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Performance concern for SCD stage for very large dimension
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2690
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:47 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Capture SQLCODE value from ODBC stage
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1566
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:27 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: passing variable values to columns
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2216
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:52 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: SFTP error
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3154
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:31 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: COncatenation with blank values
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4526
- Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:29 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: DS warnings related to CASE expression
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3296
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:46 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Date field is populated with Junk value
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1998
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:42 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: environment variable value in job
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1347
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:35 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Usage of sequencers:How to implement "Restartablity&
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2336
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:31 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Decimal Conversion & formatting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1186
Hi, I had a similar issue and I think I did a TRIM after doing the decimal to String conversion. The other solution was to use the stage variables. Use the decimal to String function. Use Field function to get the precision part and decimal part. Do a Trim on both the stage variables. Concat the sta...