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by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:24 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: New install of 7.5.3 not working correctly
Replies: 2
Views: 967

You may need to register the Oracle plug-in.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:23 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Child job not sending completed signal to parent
Replies: 5
Views: 1111

Welcome aboard. Are you running on an approved version/variant of Red Hat Linux? You probably need to take this one up with your official support provider if it's occurring reliably.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:21 am
Forum: General
Topic: Restartable Sequence with Exception handler
Replies: 1
Views: 853

You are seeking to have your cake and eat it too. You can have one or the other, but not both. Invoking the Exception Handler causes the sequence to finish successfully, which clears all checkpoints. Use explicit failure triggers instead.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:14 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Issue with pipe delimeter
Replies: 2
Views: 1126

There isn't one unless each string field is quoted. You can read the entire line as a single string and parse it according to your own rules, for example in a Transfomer stage. This will actually give improved performance for large volumes because your parsing is being performed in parallel rather t...
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:12 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Start Connector Import Wizard
Replies: 1
Views: 1175

What are you seeing in the Node Agent log?
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:10 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DB2 Connector load problems Job aborting
Replies: 2
Views: 2965

Your data have violated referential integrity.
DataStage wrote:The insert or update value of the FOREIGN KEY "DOC_DW.SCARS_MARKS_TATTOOS.SCARS_MARKS_TATTOOS_MASTER_FK" is not equal to any value of the parent key of the parent table.
Don't do so. Check during ETL that you aren't.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:08 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Oracle Bulk Load
Replies: 2
Views: 2072

It's OK provided that you guarantee - totally - that the data you are loading will not violate any constraints (typically uniqueness constraints in the case of PK index). You may also want to re-calculate table statistics after performing all these tasks.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:05 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: how to get Reject records
Replies: 10
Views: 4113

It is working as expected.

Good.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:04 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Stop a parallel job programmatically
Replies: 3
Views: 1483

Welcome aboard.

The short answer is to do something in the job that will cause the job to fail, such as directing the row to a link that has a one row limit or by engineering a deliberately impossible lookup with the Lookup Failed rule set to Fail.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:02 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to setup Orchadmin command in DataStage
Replies: 7
Views: 5972

If they're not correct orchadmin will throw an error message to that effect.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:00 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Varchar to Timestamp Conversion
Replies: 6
Views: 1741

Just curious (and unable to check at the moment) - can you include the literal T in the format string? That would yield a simpler and self-documented solution.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 04, 2010 11:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Datastage 8.5 Download
Replies: 7
Views: 25490

Beta program is finished. The 8.5 version became generally available (for purchase) two weeks or so ago.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:57 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DataSet storage size
Replies: 2
Views: 1012

In particular look for the environment variable that controls maximum block size in a Data Set.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:56 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: how to highlight text?
Replies: 8
Views: 1650

Or just different colored electrons along the wire?
:lol:
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:55 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: This is about CDC stage
Replies: 3
Views: 2820

The CDC stage is particularly for working with data captured from transaction logs by IBM's Change Data Capture product (formerly Data Mirror). Is this the purpose to which you are putting the stage? If not, investigate the Change Capture, Difference or Compare stages.