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by ray.wurlod
Mon Mar 14, 2016 1:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: suite usage - who is using what and when?
Replies: 6
Views: 2158

Contemplate exporting security assets using the istool command. The export file can be viewed with something like WinZip, you can also write some Java code to do so. istool export -domain servername -username user -password pwd -archive "pathname" -security '-securityUser -userident "...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:34 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: how many nodes on each CPU?
Replies: 4
Views: 1807

From that starting point monitor system usage via Operations Console and adjust for spare capacity. In a DEV environment you never need more than two nodes*; if it will run on 2 it will run on 2000 - this does not need to be tested, it is inherent in the parallel engine. * The only exception might b...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:30 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Need Help for Logic Authorization Data to Information server
Replies: 8
Views: 3293

You can create a "List of Users" report in the Reporting tab of the Web console for Information Server. This report can be executed automatically as a scheduled report.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:28 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: how many nodes on each CPU?
Replies: 4
Views: 1807

As a starting point, 0.5 nodes per CPU core.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Mar 13, 2016 9:45 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Is Unicode an overkill?
Replies: 3
Views: 1500

I have not seen such issues. However, even not using the Unicode extension for string data types, you still clearly have NLSMODE enabled (so that you can use Unicode as required).
by ray.wurlod
Sun Mar 13, 2016 9:42 pm
Forum: Site/Forum
Topic: Premium Membership Promotion
Replies: 1
Views: 6681

I doubt it very much. After all, it's no longer May Day 2015.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Mar 12, 2016 2:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Is Unicode an overkill?
Replies: 3
Views: 1500

The only real impact of using Unicode is that the total number of bytes processed is necessarily larger (typically 2X). Not using Unicode means that you are limited to the ASCII code set. Depending on what external data you are using there may also be a requirement to translate from/to the encoding ...
by ray.wurlod
Fri Mar 11, 2016 3:10 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date type cast
Replies: 12
Views: 7984

ahmedwaseem2000 wrote:you see i was out of my mind, then why do you expect me to spell it correctly :wink:
Because Rob's family name is spelled "the other way".
by ray.wurlod
Fri Mar 11, 2016 3:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Unstructured Data Stage excel sheet
Replies: 3
Views: 2603

The error message suggests that the user that actually executes the DataStage job lacks write permission to the Excel workbook. Check your Engine credentials.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Mar 11, 2016 3:04 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Convert phone number to E164
Replies: 5
Views: 1840

I would leverage (and have leveraged) QualityStage for this task, creating an AUPHONE rule set (my home base is Australia), with lookup tables for country, for area codes, for carriers, and so on.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Mar 11, 2016 3:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: mathematical functions for larger data types ????
Replies: 8
Views: 2815

The parallel engine does not have the string math functions to which Craig referred.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Mar 11, 2016 2:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: suite usage - who is using what and when?
Replies: 6
Views: 2158

I'm not aware of such a report/utility. Most of that information ought to be findable in SystemOut.log and its precursors, but there may be a prettier solution.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 09, 2016 12:04 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Connecting to HDFS via Datastage 9.1 installed on windows
Replies: 7
Views: 5018

Yes, which is one of the reasons they chose to install on Linux.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Database connection Issue
Replies: 4
Views: 1311

There is a uvodbc.config file in the DSEngine directory, however it can be overridden if there is a uvodbc.config file in the project directory.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Datastage len function
Replies: 7
Views: 3021

Can you please attempt the same experiment using a Server job?