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by ray.wurlod
Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:38 am
Forum: General
Topic: Connecting to Sql server 2008 from Server routine
Replies: 24
Views: 12484

More likely Windows can't find the sqlcmd executable because its parent directory is not mentioned in your PATH environment variable and you're not executing in its parent directory. You can get around this by specifying the full pathname of the sqlcmd executable.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:35 am
Forum: General
Topic: migrating to Datastage 8.5 from Datastage 7.5
Replies: 9
Views: 6515

The upgrade is fairly straightforward, and jobs and sequences will be upgraded as part of it. Details about how to upgrade from version 7.5 can be found in the Installation and Upgrade manual for Information Server, which you have with the version 8.5 software. It's also available from the Informati...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:33 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Getting problem with Chinese characters when loading to DB2
Replies: 9
Views: 9824

Can you View Data successfully with respect to your source file?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: IsNull not working
Replies: 9
Views: 6649

But that's correct! If you're pulling NULL from SAP and inserting untransformed data into Oracle, then you should expect to see NULL in Oracle. You can't trim NULL (at least not till version 8.5). To detect NULL, therefore, you need to apply the IsNull() function to the original input column, as MT ...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Aggregrator stage behaving indifferent
Replies: 4
Views: 1650

How are you partitioning the data?

"Sort method" is how you are asking the Aggregator stage to work (and requires that the incoming data are sorted).
by ray.wurlod
Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:50 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: remove duplicates using transformer, capturing duplicates
Replies: 3
Views: 2280

You can not remove duplicates without either sorting or joining the source to itself.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:46 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Getting problem with Chinese characters when loading to DB2
Replies: 9
Views: 9824

Probably not using UTF-8 (though you may be lucky). Try using the appropriate Chinese character map (for example GB2312 or BIG5).
by ray.wurlod
Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How restart the job, where it left off
Replies: 1
Views: 1427

(1) Only by designing that functionality into your job.
(2) From the beginning, unless designed otherwise.
(3) See (1).
(4) It seems you need some kind of "vertical pivot" in this case. Yes it can be done. Search DSXchange for examples.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: remove duplicates using transformer, capturing duplicates
Replies: 3
Views: 2280

Sort the data upstream of the Transformer stage using a Sort stage which also generates a Key Change column. Then, within the Transformer stage, use the value of this Key Change column in constraint expressions to capture unique values and duplicates onto separate output links.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:42 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Delimited file with fixed width
Replies: 2
Views: 1686

Study one of the productivity aids in the Transformer stage, namely Derivation Substitution.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Aggregator Partitioning
Replies: 3
Views: 2819

Re: Aggregator Partitioning

soumya5891 wrote:It is better to use hash partition whenever you are working on group of data like aggregator,sort,remove duplicate.
That's not always true. For example, if the grouping key is an integer of some kind, then Modulus should be preferred, as it's more efficient than Hash.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:14 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Dynamically handling file
Replies: 4
Views: 2703

Are you reading or writing this file?
by ray.wurlod
Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:13 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Need to find sum(sal) for all the active employees
Replies: 16
Views: 6760

I'm sure I specified "cycle with one value" earlier.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:11 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: IsNull not working
Replies: 9
Views: 6649

Whenever you extract that field from the database use any null handling function like COALESCE function because it may happen that database null does not match with data stage null Do you have any proof of this? Over the last 13 years I've found DataStage null handling to be quite reliable, no matt...
by ray.wurlod
Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:56 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Configuration file error in Datastage
Replies: 12
Views: 13583

You shouldn't need a configuration file for server edition. Assuming, therefore, that you're using enterprise edition, the error is in TCP and described by exit status (error code) 111 - connection refused. Therefore we must conclude that, in spite of your assertions, communication between the machi...