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by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: UniData Connection
Replies: 1
Views: 925

What problems are you having? In particular what (exact) error messages are being thrown?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Ereplace Error
Replies: 1
Views: 850

Quite simply there IS a difference and you have to find it.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Allow multiple instance impact on job
Replies: 5
Views: 1692

Does "hai" at the beginning of your question mean that you understand?

The operating system only allows one writer at a time to a file. Given that fact, you can figure out the answer to your question.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Special char conversion
Replies: 0
Views: 815

The first thing you need to establish is whether this character is even capable of being represented in EBCDIC (which has fewer characters than ASCII). Get an EBCDIC code table and inspect it.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: What is the purpose of TMPDIR in Administrator.
Replies: 3
Views: 1504

To find out about any environment variable in this dialog click on Variable Help button.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Performance issue while loading into table
Replies: 4
Views: 1489

Prove that the "external C routine" is efficient (not the bottleneck).

How do you define "performance" in an ETL context?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:03 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: lookup warning
Replies: 7
Views: 3407

Input port 1 is the (first) reference input to the Lookup stage. Go to the properties of the stage at the other end of that link, and set preserve partitioning to Clear there.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:02 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Can i use a CASE statement in a SELECT statement ?
Replies: 11
Views: 6557

Pravenai wrote:You said SQL does not support a CASE statement.
I did not.

I said that DataStage/SQL (a particular query language, akin to UniVerse/SQL) does not support a CASE statement.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:00 am
Forum: General
Topic: Load N files into a single table
Replies: 12
Views: 3831

Who mentioned a Folder stage?

If this is a different problem, you must start a different thread. Otherwise future searchers will be confused.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:10 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: lookup warning
Replies: 7
Views: 3407

Search - this exact question has been answered a bazillion times.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:09 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Can i use a CASE statement in a SELECT statement ?
Replies: 11
Views: 6557

Here's an even weirder variant.

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SELECT BEG_AMT CONV "S;*;1;1" FROM HASH_PS_F_LEDGER;
This is called a "substitution conversion".
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:07 am
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: Importing Metadata
Replies: 5
Views: 3453

Which method did you use when you tried to import the table definition?
That is, which option did you choose after Import > Table Definition >?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:05 am
Forum: General
Topic: Environment variables: Where else, besides in job parameter?
Replies: 5
Views: 1572

No, because DataStage processes do not pick up the requesting user's .profile, so re-starting the machine won't do you any good at all. You could put them in the global profile (/etc/profile) but the preferred method is to put them into the project via the Administrator client. These are stored in a...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:04 am
Forum: General
Topic: Load N files into a single table
Replies: 12
Views: 3831

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