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by ray.wurlod
Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Technical Explanation for lack of version control?
Replies: 12
Views: 5010

Each individual job IS stored in an individual table. Indeed, several tables. But these are not files, and not source code - the design time or run time objects are what are stored. Therefore, until a version control system that can deal with these objects can be invented, there won't be one. (Of co...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:15 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Phantom Error
Replies: 1
Views: 1758

Welcome aboard.

Please look at the menu at the top, particularly the Search option.

If you had used this, you would have learned that "phantom" is simply a DataStage (and UniVerse) term meaning "background process".
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:02 am
Forum: General
Topic: What does it take to implement HA with IIS?
Replies: 7
Views: 3281

Not really. You need version 8.5.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:09 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: xml records drop while loading into oracle target table
Replies: 11
Views: 2998

Please show us your job design. In particular, does the Oracle stage have a reject-handling link (painted with long dashes)?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Calling a Job in transformer
Replies: 4
Views: 1389

In a parallel job you will need a BASIC Transformer stage - UtilityRunJob() can not be called from a parallel Transformer stage. Or you can use a server job.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Db2 Connector error when trying to view
Replies: 3
Views: 1640

This may or may not work (but hopefully Ross has a solution in the three months since he posted the question). Connector stages use the "Connector Access Service" - one of the many services exposed through the Application Server Backbone (ASB). The agent is required when the engine tier is...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:22 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Questions regarding Hash files and hash file stage
Replies: 54
Views: 42070

What Craig mentioned was introduced in version 7. Prior to that you had to validate the job to get the hashed file created.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Technical Explanation for lack of version control?
Replies: 12
Views: 5010

The main reason is that DataStage does not use source code for everything. That immediately rules out source code control systems. The Version Control product that lived through versions 6 and 7 did a reasonable job of version control, but lacked component-wise check-out and check-in capability. Whi...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:17 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Dealing with Japanese characters
Replies: 8
Views: 4016

Well done. I guess we'd assumed you'd used NVarChar.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: In Sequence Job need to generate a sequence number
Replies: 2
Views: 1088

Use one of the Key Management routines in the SDK.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Datastage access
Replies: 10
Views: 2519

Unless, of course, you subsequently change how WAS security works to LDAP ! (For example.)
by ray.wurlod
Sun Jan 09, 2011 7:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage TX
Topic: Datastage Parameter value change inside the transformer
Replies: 5
Views: 11824

Welcome aboard.

This particular forum is for the Transformation Extender, not for DataStage. You should have posted your question in the Enterprise Edition forum.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Datastage access
Replies: 10
Views: 2519

Until you know where dsadm is defined you can not change its password. The method is different for each.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Repeated condition
Replies: 1
Views: 886

Tip: it will be easier for us if you write out your requirement in English. This may help you too to clarify the logic that you want to use. For example, what is 'remaining' in your expression?
by ray.wurlod
Sat Jan 08, 2011 10:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: File Pattern -- Reading sequentially
Replies: 13
Views: 6249

Capture the output of ls -1rt Employee*.txt command, convert the line terminators to, say, commas, and use that string as the "list of things" processed by a Start Loop activity.