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by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:03 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Oracle error code and error description
Replies: 1
Views: 1154

1. Not automatic. But somewhere along that reject link - which is just another data stream in the job - you could lookup the sqlcode value. 2. No. Unlike server jobs, the database stage and the Transformer stage are separate in parallel jobs. Thus the Transformer stage does not have any access to da...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:01 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Stored Procedure Stage Error
Replies: 6
Views: 2499

What are the permissions on dsstpora.so ? Are all the Oracle environment variables correctly set for the user ID under which jobs run ?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:56 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Performance tuning
Replies: 5
Views: 1631

If the sort key is indexed with a B-tree index the sort is already done.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:51 am
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: Empty Results after PK & Column Analysis
Replies: 2
Views: 1784

Look in the job log in the ANALYZERPROJECT project. It seems that the profiling did not complete successfully. Look for any warnings or errors in the log.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:58 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: add/subtract hours to timestamp
Replies: 6
Views: 3957

True but, in this case, you need to code for negative offsets in order for the date to be adjusted appropriately.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:57 pm
Forum: Enhancement Wish List
Topic: Profile functions selectable
Replies: 1
Views: 7789

Hmm. Most of these inferred characteristics are taken from the frequency distributions, which would have to be done anyway, so I don't think you'd save much processing time. You can, of course, ignore those tabs on the Column Analysis details screen. Or cheat, with "Mark All Reviewed"!
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:10 pm
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: Information Analyzer not reading all the records
Replies: 1
Views: 2596

It's complaining that one or more of your WVARCHAR columns is too wide - can you eliminate this column from the analysis?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:52 pm
Forum: Data Integration
Topic: IQ8 versus DSXI
Replies: 1
Views: 8642

Welcome aboard, Mike.

I'm not comfortable with "DSXI" as a term. Can you please be more specific? IBM's platform offering is called Information Server. Within that (on that platform) the principal cleansing component is called QualityStage.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Import Error Warning when reading from the sequential file
Replies: 6
Views: 2275

Try modifying the metadata so that there is no space in the field name.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: When DB2 stage use odbc.ini file
Replies: 1
Views: 1120

Only the ODBC stages (and the Dynamic RDBMS stage when database type is set to ODBC) use ODBC DSNs.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:46 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Dataset Magic
Replies: 10
Views: 3241

Don't know about magic, but Data Set and File Set segment files do have a very idiosyncratic naming convention that you might be able to leverage. There are probably some identifying bytes farther into the header than the first few bytes, but I haven't looked in there in some time.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:40 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to turn off rounding in a PX job?
Replies: 6
Views: 2010

Review the rtype argument for decimal conversion functions.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:37 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reading of csv file using Seq File Stage
Replies: 10
Views: 2954

See if a server Sequential File stage - either in a server job or in a server shared container - can read this file properly. You can use a server shared container in a parallel job.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Warning: Phantom 6047
Replies: 2
Views: 2379

I think that's an internal one, vaguely seeing it back in about version 3.6. Get in touch with your official support provider.