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by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DATE VALIDATION
Replies: 4
Views: 1819

Or obstetricians.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:22 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Unable to save a new job. Error code - 40538
Replies: 6
Views: 2597

Don't be lazy here, please. It's irksome.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Difference between none and end delimiter
Replies: 5
Views: 1872

Final delimiter is a delimter that appears between the final field and the record delimiter. Occasionally you get data like that (hopefully never - it's a bad practice!). For example: 123,"John Smith",4512; 456,"Mary Jones",4669; 789,"Arthur Dent",4711; In the above exa...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Index Space in table creation of DB2 Stage
Replies: 1
Views: 684

Don't really know. Have your DB2 DBA trace the DML statement that is actually being received from the client (DataStage, that is).
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:14 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DS 8.1 Installation while 7.5 runing on Same Box
Replies: 2
Views: 833

And maybe you can't. Version 8 must have the default itag so, if your version 7 server is using the default itag, you will need to reinstall that first with a non-default itag.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Use DataStage connection object within a Shell script
Replies: 12
Views: 11563

A UniVerse table is a UniVerse file plus system table entries.

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SELECT * FROM UV_USERS WHERE DBAAUTH = 'YES';
Is your colleague a DBA? You can view the privileges through the command

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LIST.SICA ParamValue
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:08 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Nvarchar - Datatype Not Supported
Replies: 6
Views: 5049

NVarChar is supported. NVarChar(max) - aka TEXT - probably isn't. Try using a large bounded NVarChar.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reset aborted sequencers using UNIX shell script - reg.
Replies: 3
Views: 897

Sequencers don't (can't) abort.

Sequences can.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:05 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Logic for getting one year back result
Replies: 3
Views: 978

We don't do "urgent" or "asap". DSXchange is an all-volunteer site whose members post when and if they can. We find "urgent" or "asap" requests/demands to be offensive. Nor was your requirement clearly stated. Do you want to calculate the date one year ago, d...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: main_program: Fatal Error: Not a v1.1 type: decimal[10,0]
Replies: 3
Views: 1109

change APT_AUTO_TRANSPORT_BLOCK_SIZE to false and try to run the job Why do you give this advice? Transport blocks only apply to fixed-width records, and is given in bytes. In most cases it's calculated using a formula that involves APT_MIN_TRANSPORT_BLOCK_SIZE, APT_MAX_TRANSPORT_BLOCK_SIZE as well...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:58 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: option in multi-instance for reading dynamic number of files
Replies: 10
Views: 4607

There is a DVD available from DSXchange Learning Center that gives good examples of how to use the Loop activities. It's the one on DataStage job sequences.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Rollups
Replies: 19
Views: 4642

You don't need an Aggregator stage, because you need the moving average re-calculated every row. I should have mentioned that the stage variables should be initialized to 0 (though this should be obvious).
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: SDKSequences and D_SDKSequences
Replies: 4
Views: 2337

It is NOT an error. It is a report that the hashed file used by these routines is being created. If you don't like it modify the routines to hush the output of the CREATE.FILE statement.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DATE VALIDATION
Replies: 4
Views: 1819

For example DateOfBirth and HireDate should both not be greater than current date.