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by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DSXCHANGE stand at IOD 2010
Replies: 3
Views: 1297

Ray is not a speaker this year but will be around for the whole conference.

Vincent is also attending, I don't know if he's speaking.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:49 am
Forum: General
Topic: How to list jobs modification dates?
Replies: 25
Views: 7110

No. You can use the Administrator client, but you can't script commands to be run through that interface.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:48 am
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: Can IA see views (versus physical tables)?
Replies: 3
Views: 1924

There should be no problems with views. Have you granted SELECT privilege to the view for the IA user?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:03 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Adding rows to a single column
Replies: 8
Views: 3413

Generate a column containing the length and aggregate preserving MAX.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:02 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Conversion of Timestamp field
Replies: 4
Views: 2244

1. Convert to String.
2. Decompose into components (date, time). Use Field() function.
3. Convert date format. Oconv(Iconv()) with appropriate format strings.
4. Append space and time component (including fractional seconds).
by ray.wurlod
Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:18 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Adding rows to a single column
Replies: 8
Views: 3413

Use Len() functions to compare lengths.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: SMTPMail Server closed the connection!
Replies: 5
Views: 2296

This one is on Windows. Which SMTP client are you using?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Phantom warning
Replies: 12
Views: 5057

Can you please determine whether your project (account) has enties called LOGIN, ON.EXIT or ON.ABORT in the VOC file?

Code: Select all

LIST.ITEM VOC 'LOGIN' 'ON.EXIT' 'ON.ABORT'
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: running multiple jobs
Replies: 1
Views: 1240

Welcome aboard. Their reason may be purely political or it may be a bad experience they once had where two huge jobs swamped the server or locked rows, pages or tables in the database. You need to discover the reason. DataStage has no limits on the number of jobs running simultaneously except that a...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Link Naming Standard
Replies: 11
Views: 5348

One of the few good aspects to working in Defence is that enforcement of standards is not a problem. At least once the standards have been established and everyone has agreed that they're the right ones to use! But that's done up front, so it's all good.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to list jobs modification dates?
Replies: 25
Views: 7110

Assuming a default installation, C:\IBM\InformationServer\Server\DSEngine\bin\dssh.exe
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:38 pm
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: Information Analyzer Report
Replies: 1
Views: 1577

I don't believe that there is a report template for least frequent formats.

However these can easily be seen in the Column Analysis workspace by clicking on (sorting) the Count column header. Click again to sort in the other order (ascending vs descending).
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:36 pm
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: Unable to do column analysis using IA 8.1.2 Fix Pack 3
Replies: 5
Views: 2673

Perhaps using some of the IKEA product names?
:lol:
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:35 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage TX
Topic: How to generate sequence number from transformer
Replies: 3
Views: 10385

Actually probably not in this particular forum, which is devoted to WebSphere Transformation Extender (which used to be called DataStage TX, but which is no longer a part of DataStage).
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:25 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Records skipped when reading sequential file
Replies: 5
Views: 1980

Look in the job log. Are they being skipped, or are they experiencing import failures and being rejected/dropped?