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by ray.wurlod
Sat May 14, 2016 5:55 am
Forum: General
Topic: Encrypting a column in Datastage 9.1
Replies: 6
Views: 2107

No. There is only encryption.

But you could write your own.
by ray.wurlod
Sat May 14, 2016 5:52 am
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: Load Rule Assembly Permission Issues
Replies: 3
Views: 7320

On your client machine. The actual location depends on where Information Server client was installed (default is C:\IBM). You should be able to find it searching from there.
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 12, 2016 4:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Metadata Driven ETL
Replies: 7
Views: 5377

Specifications in the Modify stage can be fully parameterized.

However, the Modify stage has only a subset of the Transformer stage in terms of transformations; in particular it can only (in general) effect transformations that have a single input field.
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 12, 2016 4:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Get column names from command line using stage name/link nam
Replies: 4
Views: 1852

Many years ago I created a DataStage routine to reverse-engineer DDL from a DataStage table definition. So it's definitely do-able. Alas, I have long since lost the code. (It also generated IFX format.)
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 12, 2016 4:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Get list name jobs DataStage
Replies: 3
Views: 1427

What have you tried?

We are not here to solve your requirements - that would be consulting, and that's how some of us earn a living.

We are here to help you to resolve any problems, but expect you to have made some kind of attempt first.
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 12, 2016 4:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Question on information analyzer
Replies: 3
Views: 1774

All global variables are string. Use the val() function to convert to numeric value to use in comparisons. I have used this extensively to create Data Rule Definitions that compute and verify check digits.
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 12, 2016 1:04 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reading Excel files from share point
Replies: 3
Views: 1805

Don't push. If someone can help you, they will. DSXchange is an all-volunteer site whose members post when they can, and in any case are not compelled to do so, nor to meet arbitrary timelines. If you need urgent help sign up with with your official support provider for premium service, and learn ju...
by ray.wurlod
Thu May 12, 2016 12:37 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Get SQL State of DB connector
Replies: 5
Views: 5917

As a general rule, a DataStage Connector will be silent about a successful commit. It may be possible to use Before-SQL to set a state that causes the database to report successful commits.
by ray.wurlod
Tue May 10, 2016 5:47 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Sequential File --> All Records are coming in a single re
Replies: 4
Views: 1586

Eliminate your Final Delimiter property and set the Record Delimiter String property (which is different from the Record Delimiter property) to "DOS style". Let us know whether that works.
by ray.wurlod
Tue May 10, 2016 5:35 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: CPU and APT file
Replies: 5
Views: 1575

What do you mean by "faster"?

Do not believe anything expressed as rows/sec. Search DSXchange for reasons.
by ray.wurlod
Tue May 10, 2016 5:34 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Issue with Timezone in flat files
Replies: 6
Views: 2827

Is TZ being set for your project/environment?
by ray.wurlod
Tue May 10, 2016 5:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Parameter sets, value files and sequence compilation
Replies: 9
Views: 2288

Bonne chance!

Each values file allows you to specify a different set of default values for the parameters in the Parameter Set.
by ray.wurlod
Tue May 10, 2016 5:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DSX file triples after minor change in DataStage Designer
Replies: 7
Views: 2676

Typically the symbols preceded with "\\\\" are the structure of the repository; they represent folders in the local DataStage repository, control records, class type records, and so on. I would imagine (guess) that an export excluding read-only components would not include these (unless th...
by ray.wurlod
Mon May 09, 2016 5:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Duplicate Surrogate Key
Replies: 3
Views: 1535

Might the table be getting new rows from sources other than DataStage, and not updating the Oracle sequence?
by ray.wurlod
Mon May 09, 2016 5:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Issue with Timezone in flat files
Replies: 6
Views: 2827

You can probably retrieve the system's timezone from the TZ environment variable.