Search found 53125 matches

by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 20, 2015 6:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Error writing to jpfile
Replies: 1
Views: 1324

Prevention: Don't use the same file system as that for the project for storing files (or other data structures).
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 20, 2015 6:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to attach a Log File when the jobs fail?
Replies: 10
Views: 2892

First, the log is not a file; it's a table in the repository database.

You can view the log either from the Director client or from the Log View in Designer client.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 20, 2015 6:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: NullPointerException occurs during installation
Replies: 11
Views: 6621

IBM's documentation ( Planning, Installation and Configuration Guide ) has always specified that the installer must be a member of the local Administrators group, and that anti-virus programs should be disabled. It's also a wise idea to disable any animated screen saver programs on the engine tier m...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 19, 2015 9:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Installation troubleshooting
Replies: 5
Views: 1510

What exact error message are you getting?

Are you aware that you must use HTTPS (rather than HTTP)?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 19, 2015 3:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Running job with multiple parameters
Replies: 8
Views: 6872

There's nothing to stop you re-reading the file later in the sequence, which would pick up any changes.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 19, 2015 3:34 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: check operator error while compiling dstage 91 transformloop
Replies: 5
Views: 2623

Check also that the compiler licence has not expired on that system.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:29 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: MDM 11.3 and Quality Stage 8.5 compatibility
Replies: 2
Views: 4077

Because you're using out of the box components, you should be able to use an older version of QualityStage to standardize/cleanse/survive data for loading into a newer version of MDM. Of course, you're missing out on all the goodies available in later versions, such as automatic exception capture/ha...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 18, 2015 3:57 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Scenario in Datastage
Replies: 2
Views: 1622

Pivot stage (rows to columns).
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 18, 2015 3:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Installation of DS Client version 11.3
Replies: 6
Views: 962

That would do it.

I assumed you were updgrading on the basis of your existing licence, which is the usual way things are done.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 17, 2015 8:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Sequential Files, Timestamps, Null values and Asterisks
Replies: 26
Views: 15058

Welcome aboard. :D
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 17, 2015 8:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Installation of DS Client version 11.3
Replies: 6
Views: 962

This suggests that you have never created a server job.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 17, 2015 3:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Restful web service
Replies: 9
Views: 9327

If the web server has timed out, you need to get in touch with them and get them to "feed the hamsters" that power their site.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 17, 2015 3:52 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: soundex on joining keys
Replies: 3
Views: 2103

Generate the Soundex values in upstream Column Generator stages.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 17, 2015 3:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Tringger n instances of a job parallely
Replies: 6
Views: 2130

You could use the loop, but use an Execute Command activity to request the job to be run as a nohup background process via the dsjob command line.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 17, 2015 3:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Implicit conversion from source type-Sybase Enterprise Stage
Replies: 3
Views: 2569

If you have Unicode (or UTF, etc.) enabled, Char(2) is stored as four bytes in Sybase. In that case, DataStage table import reports the storage requirements as string[4].