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by ray.wurlod
Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:57 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage TX
Topic: Support for Websphere TX
Replies: 4
Views: 10553

I, on the other hand, "have heard" that someone in Nigeria wants to deposit $40M into my bank account.

Please don't just go with "I have heard" - cite sources so you and we can check.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Sep 02, 2009 4:10 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: i need to know where it is stored "DSParams" file
Replies: 11
Views: 9415

Re: i need to know where it is stored "DSParams" f

nandela.sudheer wrote:i need to know where it is stored "DSParams" file in datastage
Why?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:53 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Datastage login problem
Replies: 1
Views: 1096

Did you Search here for the answer?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Datastage 8.0 leaves files lying in Datasets directory
Replies: 1
Views: 1006

These are the data files associated with YOUR Data Sets. It's your decision about whether or not they're still needed.

Tip: don't delete them directly. Use the Data Set Management tool or the orchadmin command to delete them, so that you don't leave orphans hanging around.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:15 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: convert character data type to numeric data type in datastag
Replies: 2
Views: 1254

... which you can determine with an IsValid() function, probably in an If..Then..Else construct.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Need to convert combination of char ,integer&specialchar
Replies: 0
Views: 1169

Use IsValid() to test whether the input is valid as an unsigned integer in an If..Then..Construct and set zeroes in the Else part.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Version Upgrade of Datastage
Replies: 11
Views: 2113

Given that your operating system is Windows, you can only use version 7.5x2 for parallel processing capability unless you upgrade to any version 8.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: iNTRINSIC cONVERSION
Replies: 2
Views: 743

Please post the precise data type of both input columns and of any output columns derived from either.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:57 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How does DataStage store Annotations?
Replies: 17
Views: 5496

There IS NO documentation.

A Search will reveal the reasons.

Essentially, though, IBM regard the "internals" as their intellectual property.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: where data is stored between stages when the job is running
Replies: 5
Views: 1388

There are two schemes of parallelism. Pipeline parallelism (the one implied by the original question) and partition parallelism (the one implied by Craig's response to Oritech's unrelated question). You can read about both in the Parallel Job Developer's Guide. To address the original question, idea...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Config File
Replies: 9
Views: 2889

Let's just stay with "network node name" for now - "server" is ambiguous in the current context. Network node names occur in the hosts file or are decodable through services such as DNS (domain name service). It depends on your particular installation, and is not part of DataStag...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:45 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Creating a Reserved Word/Variable
Replies: 12
Views: 4161

Use a user variable in a sequence, pass it to other components as a parameter/argument.

Why don't you think an environment variable would be safe?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Need help setting up UVSH
Replies: 10
Views: 2548

It (the output from LIST.READU INTERNAL) is a dynamic array. You have to extract the date from the dynamic array using DataStage BASIC.

You are at the forefront of those trying to understand the relationships between tables in the unified metadata repository. Good luck.