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by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Routine returning invalid results
Replies: 12
Views: 5109

Only for external routines.

Remember what Kim advised about modularization? This is one of the reasons why.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Routine returning invalid results
Replies: 12
Views: 5109

foo = "DSU.MyRoutine" Call @foo(Result, other_args) The technique is called "indirect call". And it's in the DataStage BASIC manual. I've used it in the past to create data-driven business rules validation. For functions the first argument position is reserved for the return val...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:44 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Routine returning invalid results
Replies: 12
Views: 5109

A regular server job with code posted into the Job Control tab will suffice. A Batch style job is the same thing, but created in Director (which means it gets "Batch::" prefixed to its name and it gets compiled automatically). Batch is a way to allow operators (who don't have access to Des...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:40 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Importing environment variable
Replies: 2
Views: 1431

You can copy blocks of lines from one DSParams file to another. Try to preserve alphabetical order within sections in the new DSParams file.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: InfoSphere Installer space check Bugs
Replies: 2
Views: 959

I like it. So when you talk with support you quote version "8.1 with fixes to the installer", or "8.1wftti" for short.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Backup Projects - dscmdexport for UX
Replies: 5
Views: 2502

Currently on 8.1.0.0 and there's nothing executable with "export" in its name on the server side.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:59 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to create a copy of a project
Replies: 2
Views: 1406

Export the old project, create the new one empty and then import the old one into it.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:50 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Oracle Enterprise read method
Replies: 6
Views: 1323

Did you look at one node of two, perhaps?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Resource DISK in Grid environment
Replies: 2
Views: 908

Thanks for that. IBM are currently setting up the grid, will just have to wait and see (and test).
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:40 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to dynamically change metadata without changing job
Replies: 9
Views: 2278

It's not too great a step from "dynamic" to "dynamite". Beware trying to do anything "dynamic" in what is designed to be a metadata-driven tool.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:37 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Routine
Replies: 8
Views: 2110

As noted elsewhere recently, the local repository is not used for table definitions at all. They are always in the unified respository in version 8.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:33 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Performance problem even after tuning...URGENT
Replies: 19
Views: 5845

Use stage tracing (from the Tracing tab of the Job Run Options dialog) to capture statistics about the Transformer stage(s). Since you have provided no information about the job design there's not really much advice we can sensibly give.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: UN IDENTIFIED ERROR
Replies: 1
Views: 631

Hmm...

Resolved already. How?

Partitioning not right?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: External routine compliation problem
Replies: 4
Views: 1428

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