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by ray.wurlod
Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:28 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: what is job score
Replies: 3
Views: 1345

Welcome aboard. Is this an interview question that you're facing?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:37 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Sum,Avg in Aggregator stage at a time
Replies: 1
Views: 1814

Not using Count Rows. But you can Sum a column that has 1 in every row, which may have been generated in an upstream Column Generator stage, for example.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:35 am
Forum: General
Topic: Multiple instance
Replies: 3
Views: 1540

With a dot.

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dsjob -run -jobstatus projectname jobname.invocationID
Please strive for a professional standard of written English on DSXchange. DSXchange is not a mobile phone - there is no need to resort to SMS-style shortcuts. The correct spelling of the word is "please".
by ray.wurlod
Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: AGE BAND lookup
Replies: 5
Views: 1654

kadale.nilesh wrote:U can directly check the value in a particular range.
Indeed, anyone can, not just U (one of our posters).

The descriptions in the manual are quite clear. Show us what you have attempted.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:31 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Timeout Expired
Replies: 5
Views: 1876

Hanging on locks (a lock?) in the database?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:29 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to handdle chars '<' and '>' in XML Output Stage
Replies: 3
Views: 1818

Mark the output as XML. No conversion will occur. Search DSXchange for details of the technique.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:35 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Datastage and MySQL
Replies: 4
Views: 3638

Are these precisely the functions you use in MySQL ?

Why not use CurrentDate() and CurrentTime() functions within DataStage instead?
by ray.wurlod
Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:19 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Unable to Read Temp_testxml601 from OMD.XML.DIR
Replies: 2
Views: 2309

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A search for OMD.XML.DIR turned up 11 matches. Is any of them useful?
by ray.wurlod
Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:32 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Error:Abnormal termination of stage Seqfile1.IDENT1 detected
Replies: 15
Views: 11520

The "from previous run" message (if any) has Informational severity. Please check again.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Unable to start Orchestrate
Replies: 4
Views: 3497

The execution strategy is identical on Windows and UNIX. Conductor process reads generated osh and configuration file, then constructs the score. After that it starts a section leader process on each node (using fork() or rsh) and passes the score to each of these. Then the section leaders start pla...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:44 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Error:Abnormal termination of stage Seqfile1.IDENT1 detected
Replies: 15
Views: 11520

Good. Now please answer the question about whether any "from previous run" information appears in the job log after you reset (not re-compile) an aborted job.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:43 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: GET FILENAME
Replies: 37
Views: 9673

Not counting routines, there is ONE kind of variable - stage variables, which have scope within the body of a Transformer stage. Arguably job parameters act something like variables, though their values cannot be changed (legally) once the job has started.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Nov 21, 2010 3:16 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Converting 2 node Parallel Jobs to 4 node
Replies: 1
Views: 1071

No new warnings.

You will continue to get any warnings you get from a two-node configuration.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Nov 21, 2010 3:15 am
Forum: General
Topic: Looping Activity in DataStage
Replies: 9
Views: 7152

StartLoop and EndLoop activities in sequence seems to me to be the best approach.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Nov 21, 2010 3:14 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Error:Abnormal termination of stage Seqfile1.IDENT1 detected
Replies: 15
Views: 11520

Have you loaded format and column metadata onto both input links?