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by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:18 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Concatination not working
Replies: 6
Views: 2192

Are there any nulls?

Concatenating anything with null will result in null.

Otherwise show us the exact expression you are using.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:16 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Loop final value not numeric.
Replies: 4
Views: 2050

Then please mark the thread as Resolved using the green button at the top of the page.

(An approach using user status was going to be my next suggestion, but I had to check your syntax because the function you posted had mismatched parentheses.)
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:14 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to specify Multiple record types in cff stage
Replies: 1
Views: 1248

Moderator: please move to Enterprise Edition (parallel) forum
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:13 am
Forum: General
Topic: Link collector works very slow
Replies: 2
Views: 1262

Round Robin should be the fastest mechanism. Perhaps you could increase your inter-process row buffer size.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:11 am
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: Does IA convert tasks into SQL and execute?
Replies: 3
Views: 1884

IA does not work that way. Conceptually the process can be explained in SQL terms, something like SELECT CAST(col1 AS VARCHAR), CAST(col2 AS VARCHAR), ... FROM table but it's really using ODBC API functions. You could, of course, start an ODBC trace to see what's happening. The raw data are then dum...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:36 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Issues with Datastage v7.0
Replies: 2
Views: 1672

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by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:35 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Loop final value not numeric.
Replies: 4
Views: 2050

Are you missing a right parenthesis in the expression?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:33 am
Forum: General
Topic: Export Projects from Crashed DataStage and QualityStage 8.1
Replies: 7
Views: 5291

I've taken off the premium designation, because you didn't really miss much.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Strange Behaviour in External Source Stage
Replies: 1
Views: 970

I don't have a solution but, as a workaround, can you use a Row Generator stage with a cycle of values in each of the five columns and generating precisely the same number of rows as there are values in each cycle?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Duplicates -Help Required
Replies: 8
Views: 2034

This is related to your question about detecting non-English characters, isn't it?

One way would be to use a BASIC Transformer stage in which (possibly in a server routine) you use Oconv() to test whether the data can be "converted" using one kind of NLS map, perhaps ISO8859-1.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Export Projects from Crashed DataStage and QualityStage 8.1
Replies: 7
Views: 5291

Until you can get WebSphere Application Server started, you won't be able to export anything. Perhaps you could disable security, which should at least allow you to get into the WAS console to reverse any changes that broke things. But be aware that the other components (Information Server) won't wo...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:44 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: No of days
Replies: 9
Views: 2276

I agree. DaysSinceFromDate() can answer both questions (since start of year and since start of month).
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:43 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Duplicates -Help Required
Replies: 8
Views: 2034

Is it the case that EnglishName1 = EnglishName2 and JapaneseName1 = JapaneseName2 ? And EnglishName1 <> JapaneseName2 and JapaneseName1 <> EnglishName2 ?

If so, all you need is a simple constraint expression, InLink.Col1 = InLink.Col2.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:02 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Non technical query - Ray/Craig
Replies: 1
Views: 912

membership.director@dsxchange.com is the correct email ID (or is it membershipdirector@dsxchange.com?). You can also try editor@dsxchange.com

Craig and I are just regular posters (admittedly with a large number of posts). We are not involved with the running of the site.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: ODBC Driver for RDMS
Replies: 2
Views: 1719

ODBC Driver for RDMS

RDMS is a proprietary database that runs on UNISYS mainframes. There is a Windows-based ODBC driver called UniAccess that can be used to get at tables in this database. Does anyone know of a UNIX-based ODBC driver? I've searched in the most likely places (such as driver vendor websites) with no luck.