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by ray.wurlod
Mon Dec 27, 2010 3:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Code review checklist
Replies: 3
Views: 3684

Start by learning to write in English rather that SMS-ese. DSXchange prefers a professional standard of written English, not least because many of our members do not have English as a first language.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Dec 27, 2010 3:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Parallel job reports failure (code 139)
Replies: 3
Views: 4109

You have marked this thread as Resolved. Please post HOW it was resolved, to aid future searchers.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Dec 27, 2010 3:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Repository migration from DB2 to Oracle
Replies: 7
Views: 3205

Unless you're using the new migration tool, you will need to re-install IIS. IBM will only, at least for now, permit use of the new tool in conjunction with the "concierge" service, they say to make sure that the tool is correctly used.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: job hangs after processing few thousand records
Replies: 1
Views: 928

Welcome aboard. I'd start by looking for locks - maybe even deadlocks - in your target.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: Repository migration from DB2 to Oracle
Replies: 7
Views: 3205

You will need to uninstall IIS, either physically or logically. IBM has some scripts (AppServerAdmin.sh and the new Concierge service (migration tool assistant) that may be able to help. Ultimately you need to get all information from your old repository into the new, and there's little or no docume...
by ray.wurlod
Sat Dec 25, 2010 4:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Parameters Value In Sequencer
Replies: 4
Views: 1617

A Nested Condition activity - which is basically a placeholder activity that only has triggers - would be ideal.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Dec 24, 2010 4:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Query on score dump
Replies: 2
Views: 2231

Data Sets, if the descriptor file name ends in ".v", are virtual Data Sets, corresponding with links in the job. Buffer operators are inserted by the Orchestrate framework to handle conditions in which flows from multiple inputs are likely to be arriving at different rates and which, witho...
by ray.wurlod
Fri Dec 24, 2010 3:58 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: APT_CombinedOperatorController Error
Replies: 4
Views: 4835

I personally refuse to attempt to diagnose any error thrown by APT_CombinedOperatorController. Disable operator combination, find out which particular stage is throwing the error, then get back to us.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Dec 24, 2010 3:56 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Value for a column in modify stage
Replies: 5
Views: 2778

Column Generator.
Build.

To name two.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Dec 24, 2010 3:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Will increasing the Unix pipe size help performance?
Replies: 5
Views: 3671

Yes, but in Australia we did away with peerages some decades ago! :lol:
by ray.wurlod
Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:44 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: handling duplicate records
Replies: 2
Views: 1714

It depends (as always). If the columns that identify duplicates are indexed, then it's better done in the database, because it can be solved quickly in the index. A unique sort of some kind removes duplicates fairly efficiently. The Remove Duplicates stage gives you the opportunity to specify the fi...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:41 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: STRING was not found in the design schema
Replies: 1
Views: 12289

Your SELECT statement returns seven columns. You must therefore provide seven columns in the record schema.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:40 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Field defaults Quotes In Sequential File stage
Replies: 6
Views: 3075

Are you setting Field Delimiter String property or Field Delimiter ?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Which partition i need to use?
Replies: 8
Views: 2802

For large volumes of data you can use two adjacent Sort stages, one that sorts in parallel and the other which executes sequentially, using a Sort Merge collector and does not otherwise sort at all.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:36 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Timestamp corruption using Oracle Enterprise stages
Replies: 5
Views: 6129

DataStage is pedantic about date formats. For example if 30-09-2010 is OK then 30-9-2010 is not. Make sure that you return an absolutely consistent date format, with two digits each for day and month. YYYY-MM-DD is preferred as this is the default format in DataStage.