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by ray.wurlod
Thu May 26, 2011 9:41 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Aggregator and (maybe) partial schema
Replies: 4
Views: 1582

Not at all. The Aggregator has special rules (the same rules as GROUP BY in SQL) - you can only pass through grouped columns or columns to which a set function is applied. You can't pass through any other columns, automatically or specifically.
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 26, 2011 9:40 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Compiler settings for new installation
Replies: 27
Views: 15654

If you have installed the SDK, make sure that your LIB and INCLUDE environment variables include the Lib and Include folder (respectively) for the SDK. You may need to restart your server. C:\Documents and Settings\raywurlod>echo %LIB% E:\DB\DB2\SQLLIB\LIB;E:\APPS\ProgramFiles\Microsoft Platform SDK...
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 26, 2011 9:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Aggregator and (maybe) partial schema
Replies: 4
Views: 1582

Not possible. You have to name it (in the Sum specification) and therefore you have to be able to see it.
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 26, 2011 9:09 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Decimal to Hexadecimnal conversion
Replies: 7
Views: 4181

Creators.
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 26, 2011 9:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: UV Script to release Job Locks from Unix
Replies: 4
Views: 2770

The unlock scripts for UV locks are already in place, in the DS.TOOLS menu. However, job locks are not necessarily held in the "UniVerse" (DataStage) database any more. The correct mechanism is to disconnect the owning session, which automatically releases the job locks. Don't forget that ...
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 26, 2011 4:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Capture Between Date from 2 Dates
Replies: 1
Views: 946

What does "doesn't work" in this contect? Where are you using this expression? What do you expect it to produce?
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 26, 2011 4:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to calculate date one year prior to an input date
Replies: 4
Views: 1924

Don't you have an F1 button (help) on your keyboard? Can't you access IBM Information Center? Don't you have any manuals?
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 26, 2011 4:45 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Decimal to Hexadecimnal conversion
Replies: 7
Views: 4181

These Oconv() conversions are designed to work with four-byte integers.
You can split larger numbers (divide by 65536 and use the integer result and remainder), apply the hex conversion to each then concatenate.
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 26, 2011 12:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Scenario with Sequential file for the Reject/Load selection
Replies: 8
Views: 2947

Define a second field consisting of VarChar data type.
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 26, 2011 12:24 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Scenario with Sequential file for the Reject/Load selection
Replies: 8
Views: 2947

Define a second field consisting of VarChar data type.
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 26, 2011 12:03 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: performance variance
Replies: 8
Views: 2191

It's the cheapest stage for renaming columns, dropping columns, re-ordering columns on the link and executing implicit data type conversions.

It's particularly useful for making copies of its input when you need more than one copy.
by ray.wurlod
Wed May 25, 2011 11:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DSCC and DSCMDEXPORT and IMPORT
Replies: 1
Views: 1558

dscmdexport and dscmdimport are to be found on the client tier only.
by ray.wurlod
Wed May 25, 2011 11:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: where to fine JAVA_HOME variables
Replies: 1
Views: 990

For which processes? For example, for DataStage processes, you would set environment variables in the dsenv script. For an interactive user, you would be more likely to set them in that user's startup script (for example .profile or .bash_profile). For independent scripts you might set environment v...
by ray.wurlod
Wed May 25, 2011 11:22 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Scenario with Sequential file for the Reject/Load selection
Replies: 8
Views: 2947

Define the field as Char(1) on the input link metadata.