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by ray.wurlod
Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to Bring Up the DataStage Server in Unix
Replies: 8
Views: 4517

He was misdirecting you deliberately. The actual password is Agent86.
Sorry about that, Chief!
by ray.wurlod
Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:10 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Convert Date to Internal Format
Replies: 2
Views: 1595

Yes it's possible but you'll need to:
  • (a) use an If..Then..Else to determine whether the year is first or last (use Matches operator)

    (b) use a business rule to resolve ambiguity about whether 01/02 is January 2nd or 1st February (for example)
by ray.wurlod
Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:55 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: Po Box and House number Pattern
Replies: 8
Views: 3448

Stuart outlined why it's not working in the "out of the box" rule set. Making it an input pattern override, which is applied before the basic rule set rules, bypasses the - let's face it - wrong code in the rule set.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:17 am
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: Po Box and House number Pattern
Replies: 8
Views: 3448

That also explains (well, suggests) why the input pattern override worked. In the override the two numeric tokens were directed into Box Value and House Number respectively.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:59 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Counting number of columns used in a job
Replies: 7
Views: 2445

You have at least two problems that I can see. 1. The number of columns is likely to be inconstant across links in a job design, which mitigates against a generic solution to "columns used in a job". 2. Different record types in DS_JOBOBJECTS have different structure, so there is no single...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to clear the job status
Replies: 4
Views: 2096

From the command line (script), no.

You could recompile the jobs, using dscc, but that's not the same as clearing the status even though it has that as one of its effects.

But are you permitted to recompile in production?!!! Not at any site I run.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:24 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: Po Box and House number Pattern
Replies: 8
Views: 3448

What's really strange is that, if you create an input pattern override for BB^^+T. it parses this address quite happily.

Does space occur in your STRIPLIST?
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:20 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: Po Box and House number Pattern
Replies: 8
Views: 3448

When you build your input pattern override, you get "<" when you select <space> from the drop-down list. Are you specifying "drop current token" with the "<"? This might be what is bringing the two numeric tokens together.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: extract variable from delimited string of words
Replies: 4
Views: 1117

Can't think of one that will reliably handle an arbitrary length numeric value. Other than a custom parallel routine, of course.

But the BASIC Transformer is a parallel job solution.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: one record for each value which are seperated by delimitter
Replies: 8
Views: 3600

Use a Column Import stage to parse the records into separate columns that can be pivoted.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Get the list of Datastage users
Replies: 20
Views: 10821

If you're using LDAP for authentication then you need LDAP tools to generate lists of users. How you identify any particular user as a DataStage user can depend only on your in-house conventions. There may be other tables in XMETA - I have not got time to search for them.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Counting number of columns used in a job
Replies: 7
Views: 2445

It can be accomplished easily. Simply open the job design in Designer and inspect. The Columns grids in most cases have row numbers. This will make your task easier.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:10 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Parsing 'Comma' delimited file containing commas in data
Replies: 10
Views: 3047

The "MD" conversion with Iconv() will remove currency symbols AND thousands delimiters.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Failed to establish datasource connection
Replies: 11
Views: 6934

Is there a limit on the number of simultaneous connections to the database server? For example Oracle is limited by the number of listeners that have been configured.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:03 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Counting number of columns used in a job
Replies: 7
Views: 2445

Re: Counting number of columns used in a job

I have a urgent requirement... Any idea how can this be accomplished ? By signing up with your support provider for priority service, where you will learn the true cost of "urgent". We don't do "urgent" here. DSXchange is an all-volunteer site whose members post when they can, a...