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by ray.wurlod
Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Queries failing sometimes with SQL0433N on db2 10.5
Replies: 5
Views: 3454

Welcome aboard. What is the data type of column C? This error suggests that it is a string with a particular maximum length, and that there are data arriving that are larger than that size.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Any way to identify jobs that don't have design information?
Replies: 7
Views: 2532

Depends how it's been corrupted, of course. You might begin by reindexing the local repository database (which is done on a project-by-project basis).
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:10 pm
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: Information Analyzer - New environment capacity planning
Replies: 2
Views: 2873

Don't stint on disk space for the IA database; plan for at least five times the volume of data to be profiled. The more CPU and memory you have on the server, the faster your profiling jobs can run.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How can we get records in first and second alphabetically
Replies: 4
Views: 1994

Perhaps something like the following will do it.

Code: Select all

If Col1 > Col2 Then Col1 : "/" : Col2 Else Col2 : "/" : Col1
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reading LOBs with RCP
Replies: 7
Views: 6548

How about Shane's suggestion to generate a SELECT statement based on the system table entries? I've done this a number of times in the past (with Oracle sources, primarily) with great success.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:34 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: hash file lookup
Replies: 4
Views: 4373

Firstly, the correct nomenclature is "hashed" file, not "hash" file. It's perfectly OK for non-key fields to contain NULL, just as it would be in a database join. The hashed file even allows for part of the key to be null, in a multi-column key. (You may disagree with this, but i...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jul 06, 2015 4:04 pm
Forum:
Topic: IGC / BG number of users
Replies: 3
Views: 3254

The biggest had the Everyone group given BG User role. This contained about 33,000 users, but we did not collect information on how many users actually used BG.
For that site there were five author/administrators (named user licensing).
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jul 06, 2015 4:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Time conversion - hh:mm:ss to AM or PM format
Replies: 4
Views: 2219

The values in those variables are NOT stored in the format you specified. They are stored in an internal format. Details may be found in Chapter 2 of the Parallel Job Developer's Guide. The function to convert an internal time to a string in a Transformer stage is TimeToString() while in a Modify st...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DSX - XML: CHANGE WIDTH OF FIELD IN MANY JOBS
Replies: 6
Views: 2570

Good governance requires that it be done through some kind of approved implementation task, even if that task ends up being a global search and replace in a DSX file or XML export file. Be very careful that you only change the required attributes.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 02, 2015 2:24 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Could not connect to MySQL
Replies: 9
Views: 12740

Yes, obtain a MySQL Enterprise or Commercial. Or, perhaps, use ODBC.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 02, 2015 2:23 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: lookup reject due to reference
Replies: 4
Views: 1887

Yes, it means precisely that.

No other thoughts - this is a binary choice and the other alternative is not possible.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:34 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: lookup reject due to reference
Replies: 4
Views: 1887

Yes, but only by using two Lookup stages with Reject links, and mechanisms on each of those (e.g. Column Generator stage) to add the description of which lookup it was rejected by.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:00 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Pass output of Webservice call as input argument to another
Replies: 3
Views: 3335

Welcome aboard.

Use a design with two Web Service Client stages instead of one. The output of the first becomes the input to the second. You may require a Modify or Transformer stage between them to get your data "just so".
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jun 30, 2015 2:38 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: xml stage performance issues
Replies: 4
Views: 2219

5 GB/hour isn't too bad on a small configuration. How many nodes are you using, and what kinds of (how powerful) processors?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: selecting one record out of 2 records
Replies: 16
Views: 8122

Are you the same user as vamsi.4a6, who has over 330 posts? Anyway, and irrespective of that, think about the present problem this way: what is the purpose of constructing Start:End and End:Start columns? The answer to that is that, if they are the same, then the records belong in the same group. Fr...