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by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:19 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Parameters in Command Stage
Replies: 22
Views: 6918

sh won't work, since you're on Windows.

When you say "command stage" are you referring to an Execute Command activity in a sequence, or to something else?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:18 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Controller Problem
Replies: 4
Views: 1579

Search (for -14 will do it). This code has been reported by many people, particularly by people with not enough grunt in their server.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:16 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Calling Datastage job in a UNIX script
Replies: 2
Views: 1306

If it works you can skip them. Otherwise you probably need -user and -password options preceding them. In that case you may also need to specify -server and, once you get to version 8, -domain as well.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:13 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: a timestamp data type is changed to date type when import
Replies: 1
Views: 1150

Don't know, and manually (or perhaps by editing the export file).
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:12 am
Forum: General
Topic: Multivalued Dimensions - Group Tables and ETL
Replies: 3
Views: 1202

Another possibility is that you build your data warehouse in a database that supports multi-valued fields, such as UniVerse or UniData. If and when required these support dynamic normalization of those data.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:37 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to write substring option in transformar with if conditi
Replies: 5
Views: 1489

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Index("DE", InLink.OKCSCD, 1)
is the same as

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("DE" = InLink.OKCSCD) Or ("D" = InLink.OKCSCD) Or ("E" = InLink.OKCSCD) 
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem with SQLConnect
Replies: 6
Views: 2450

That's just SQL.ERROR. You have to call SQLError() repeatedly to strip the error information off the handle, to learn precisely what went wrong.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:19 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to write substring option in transformar with if conditi
Replies: 5
Views: 1489

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If Index("DE", InLink.OKCSCD, 1) Then Right(InLink.OKCUA4, Len(InLink.OKCUA4) - 6) Else ""
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Need help with pivoting columns
Replies: 13
Views: 5102

That's because you hijacked someone else's thread rather than starting a new topic for your new question.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:33 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date Time manipulation
Replies: 3
Views: 1137

Convert dates to Julian dates. Convert times to seconds from midnight. Do the arithmetic. Convert back to date/time/timestamp.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: skip header records in a sequential file
Replies: 4
Views: 2310

Put a reject link on the Sequential File stage. It will capture any row that does not match the metadata on the main output link.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:31 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: transformer compilation error
Replies: 12
Views: 3815

You need to have installed the .NET C++ compiler before installing DataStage server.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:30 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to read the file in routines
Replies: 5
Views: 2105

Search the forum for OpenSequentialFile, a server routine that covers all the possiblilities for opening. Choose the one marked version 4.x. Then research ReadSeq, ReadBlk and CloseSeq statements in the DataStage BASIC manual.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:27 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Using Oracle ROWID as an Update key
Replies: 4
Views: 6351

use like this (u can use any name u want)RROWID = :ROWID. Since ROWID is a key word in oracle you cannot use the sameone in the job. Change it to something in ur job and it will work. U did not ask the question. U is one of our posters. The second person personal pronoun in English is spelled "...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:24 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: convert date column to minute minus one
Replies: 2
Views: 850

Re: convert date column to minute minus one

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