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by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:22 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Irreconcilable constraints on the number of partitions
Replies: 1
Views: 2348

You need to gain a bit more of an understanding of the Orchestrate framework. A virtual Data Set is associated with every link of the job - take a closer look at the score to see what I mean, even though in the score they're generically named (DS0, DS1, DS2 and so on) you can ascertain the associate...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:16 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Datastage certification
Replies: 2
Views: 962

Both, while there's still plenty of 7.5 sites around.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:15 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to increase performance?
Replies: 3
Views: 1322

That's about 1600 rows per second. The bottleneck is almost certainly the "writing" stage. But you need to establish the timings of each - the select with and without the functions, writing to a text file versus loading into a database via bulk load versus loading into a database via SQL. ...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:12 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Vertical Pivot
Replies: 5
Views: 5748

Sort by ID, generating a key change column. Based on the key change value, in a Transformer stage either accumulate a delimited list of values or begin a new record. Downstream of the Transformer stage use a Remove Duplicates stage to preserve only the last of each group. You're pretty much done at ...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:08 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Datastage Tuncation Error
Replies: 4
Views: 1898

TRUNCATE is a specific and separate privilege in Oracle.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: issues in data transformation decimal to integer
Replies: 5
Views: 1784

Re: issues in data transformation decimal to integer

madhav62 wrote:incoming data has field which is decimal(with two decimal places)
Sorry, I was tricked by this statement in your original post.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reading multiple files with header
Replies: 8
Views: 2953

If it suits your requirements, the easiest solution is to use multiple File properties rather than read method "file pattern".
by ray.wurlod
Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:21 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: issues in data transformation decimal to integer
Replies: 5
Views: 1784

VarChar(9) is not big enough - you need at least VarChar(11) - you have nine significant digits, a sign and a decimal placeholder. Where do you expect the third decimal place to come from, given that your source column only has two?
by ray.wurlod
Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:39 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How can I subtract one month of a date in a SERVER JOB?
Replies: 8
Views: 3429

Mine do allow you to add negative offsets. ;)
by ray.wurlod
Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:22 pm
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: Failed to open Information Server Console
Replies: 4
Views: 4806

Welcome aboard. How much memory is available on your client? The JVM for Information Analyzer is pretty big.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Run the same Parallel Job using different set of parameters
Replies: 6
Views: 5853

The short answer is a job sequence with intermediate activities to retrieve the required values.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:19 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DB2 Connector Stage
Replies: 6
Views: 3290

The DB2 Connector documentation was left out. You need a patch to install it.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Unable to connect the database
Replies: 3
Views: 1962

Probably in db2nodes.cfg. Check with your DB2 DBA. DataStage is just another client application as far as DB2 is concerned.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:15 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DataStage 8.1 on site training
Replies: 4
Views: 1310

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by ray.wurlod
Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Generate a TimeStamps with 14 char long
Replies: 1
Views: 1119

The date components can be returned by system variables @DAY, @MONTH and Right(@YEAR,2).

But does "day + 50" mean that you will allow a day number of 81, or do you need to add 50 to the date then decompose it into components.

Please check out the date routines in this file.