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by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 30, 2015 1:26 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: First and last record
Replies: 7
Views: 2900

Sure, if what you want is the last record FROM EVERY NODE.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:26 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: First and last record
Replies: 7
Views: 2900

Sure, if what you want is the last record FROM EVERY NODE
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 29, 2015 4:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Know the type of user
Replies: 5
Views: 1496

When you say "type" are you referring to Windows type (for example administrator versus non-administrator) or InfoSphere Information Server type (for example which roles have been assigned to you)? Or something else entirely?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:25 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reading an Excel (xlsx) file
Replies: 26
Views: 13777

Perhaps the excluded sheet names need to be separately quoted? Particularly as each appears to include a space character.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:42 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: Address Verification (AVI) - Output Variables
Replies: 11
Views: 11117

Great! Thanks, Robert.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:10 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Look up for different files
Replies: 4
Views: 4060

Re: Look up for different files

ani_chutti@yahoo.co.in wrote:There is no choice for multiple job design. All these has to be designed in one single job
Why?

Resist stupid requirements! Or is it an interview question?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:53 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to import table definitions from SQL query?
Replies: 6
Views: 3568

... and Information Server metadata importers have (currently, at least) no mechanisms for interacting with tools such as DbVisualizer.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to import table definitions from SQL query?
Replies: 6
Views: 3568

You need to import table definitions from the tables accessed by the query. There is no mechanism for importing from the query itself; it contains no other useful metadata than the column names (and even some of those can be generated "on the fly" using AS keyword). Perhaps you could creat...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:46 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Handling Writing to SQL Server columns prefixed with numbers
Replies: 6
Views: 4685

The usual approach in this case is to encase the identifiers in double quotes.

Code: Select all

SELECT Col1, "123Col2" FROM dbo.Test_Table2
by ray.wurlod
Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:43 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Handling Writing to SQL Server columns prefixed with numbers
Replies: 6
Views: 4685

ODBC 3.0 (and presumably 3.5) Grammar specifies that identifiers will begin with alphabetic or underscore characters only. Therefore the ODBC driver (correctly) does not have the inbuilt capability to manage metadata that do not conform to this specification.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Jul 25, 2015 3:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Datastage serives down and port issue 8881
Replies: 8
Views: 2667

It appears that someone has been deleting projects.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 23, 2015 4:20 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: NLS Map for Special Characters
Replies: 9
Views: 7416

Welcome aboard.

Does not MS-1252 recognise these Windows special characters?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:31 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Range Lookup in Main Stream Flow
Replies: 1
Views: 1299

You can do a range lookup on either the reference input or on the stream input. Examine the examples in the Knowledge Center or in the Parallel Job Developer's Guide.