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by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Unable to open DS, showing an error
Replies: 2
Views: 1835

This appears to be an error in OLE Automation, which is used by the DataStage clients. It's not possible to determine from what you've given us what the actual problem is; it may be as simple as PATH needing to be updated, it may be something more complex such as a disk fault. Involve your Windows a...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Switching from local to LDAP User Registry
Replies: 6
Views: 1830

(Andy posted that at 4:13am my time. I wasn't ignoring you; I was asleep!)
by ray.wurlod
Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:22 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: Does AVI populate any Time Zone information in output field?
Replies: 13
Views: 7781

", INC" will never be standardized by USNAME into the main name field. You can use a downstream Transformer stage to append the Name suffix if that's what you require.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Datastage len function
Replies: 7
Views: 3021

Not true, Mike. Len() counts characters, ByteLen() counts bytes, and LenDP() counts display positions (for example for Chinese double width characters).
by ray.wurlod
Tue Mar 01, 2016 4:19 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Flat File Decimal with Varying Precision
Replies: 1
Views: 822

Define the input field as VarChar and use StringToDecimal() function.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Mar 01, 2016 4:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Switching from local to LDAP User Registry
Replies: 6
Views: 1830

The entire process is fully and clearly described in the documentation. All the work you've done in the internal user registry will be lost. You need to change the Global Security settings in WebSphere Application Server, then you need to run the AppServerAdmin script to set the new admin user (whic...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:33 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DataStage 11.3 with GRID on on RHEL Virtual Machines
Replies: 11
Views: 5914

No problem. Give them their own Engine, managed from the one Services tier as the other Engine(s). Use Workload Management to prevent overload on any machine (whether you stay with one, or choose multiples). I don't believe that a grid implementation will solve the particular problem that you have j...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Amount field in Complex Flat File in Parallel Vs Server
Replies: 21
Views: 6551

Because "002250{" is not a valid Decimal number. The "{" character indirectly indicates that the number is positive. It's made up of the nybbles for "0" and "{". If you're sure that all values will be positive, simply convert the "{" to 0 before appl...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DB2 Connector issue
Replies: 2
Views: 1504

Check, double check and triple check the authorization in your Connector, or in the Data Connection object that it uses (and possible in the Parameter Set associated with that).

Test by manually overriding the user name and password with the correct values.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:22 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DataStage 11.3 with GRID on on RHEL Virtual Machines
Replies: 11
Views: 5914

Welcome aboard.

I will be implementing a similar topology some time in the next three months, though a smaller installation so compute and conductor nodes will probably be on the same VM. We're still designing this.

Please note that there is no version 11.4. There is 11.3 and 11.5.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:19 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: XML staging - tables or files more efficient?
Replies: 4
Views: 2101

As a general rule storing only XML is easier achieved in files than in tables.

Storing XML plus other stuff changes the story.

What - exactly - do you need to achieve?

[Warning: every general rule has exceptions.]
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:13 pm
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

It is generally not a good idea to try to manipulate the internal tables directly, as mistakes will tend to be catastrophic. At version 11 there is a suite of command lines that you can use to work with user accounts in terms of assignment to roles. Do you also need to revoke roles if users are no l...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:25 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Orchadmin describe command
Replies: 4
Views: 3388

Does it really matter? View Data may show you even a different order. Peek output to log may show yet another order. The point is, all the columns get through the design.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:15 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Oracle job load error
Replies: 3
Views: 2274

SIGINT can be thrown/caught if the job is stopped by an operator, and can also be the way that section leaders kill player processes when certain kinds of abort occur. Please check your job log for any other errors.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Feb 25, 2016 4:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Balanced Optimizer
Replies: 3
Views: 1157

Balanced Optimizer does create a new job (you do not lose the old one). Paul is advising you not to throw away the old one, for the reasons he gave. In later versions (I forget exactly at which version it begins) Balanced Optimizer gives you the ability to decide how much of the job to push out into...