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by ray.wurlod
Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:22 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Need help with pivoting columns
Replies: 13
Views: 5102

Ur was a city in ancient Babylon. The second person possessive pronoun in English is spelled "your", not "ur". Please strive for a professional standard of written English on DSXchange, because even good English is difficult enough for those whose first language is not English. F...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:19 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Problem INSERTing "£" (pound) character
Replies: 1
Views: 2707

:idea:
Corvus' "NLS details" are for the locale.
Phil Hibbs is referring to NLS character maps.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: Hash File Lookup
Replies: 0
Views: 970

First suggestion is Search - this question has been asked and answered a number of times, including quite recently. Second is to get the terminology correct - it's "hashed" file, not "hash" file. Part key lookups against hashed files can be achieved with UniVerse stage, once the ...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem running StoredProcedire stage against Sybase server
Replies: 8
Views: 3943

That is what I want you to do. You can use a UNIX find command.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to resolve "Can't open DS_JOBOBJECTS" error
Replies: 21
Views: 9505

The files with ampersands in their names have to be hard quoted or have the ampersands escaped in the cp command, for example D_\&COMO\& or 'D_&COMO&' (in single quotes). The is because ampersand is a shell metacharacter that instructs the shell to start a background process. D_SDKSe...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:36 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem running StoredProcedire stage against Sybase server
Replies: 8
Views: 3943

Is dsstpsyb.so on your server, in a directory that is included in your shared library search path (for example LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LIBPATH or SHLIB_PATH)?
by ray.wurlod
Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:28 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Difference between Change Capture and Change apply stage.
Replies: 1
Views: 2955

It's reasonably clear in the manual. Change Capture captures the changes. The "changes" file it produces can be re-applied to the "before" data set in a Change Apply stage to reproduce the "after" data set.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to resolve "Can't open DS_JOBOBJECTS" error
Replies: 21
Views: 9505

These D_* entries are all just files, and can safely be copied (without overwriting any existing ones) with operating system cp command (UNIX) or COPY command (Windows).

Not sure why RT_CONFIG3613 is read-only - start by checking operating system permissions.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: job status
Replies: 13
Views: 6154

If you really want to get Craig (H) going, as about all those posters who want to create one generic job that can do everything. No, wait, who want US to create that job for them. (I get somewhat worked up about that also. I believe - know - that DataStage was designed to be driven by the metadata, ...
by ray.wurlod
Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:28 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Speed up a hash Lookup (Partial Key) created and build index
Replies: 13
Views: 5870

Try the generated SQL query from the Administrator command interface, substituting a known value for each parameter marker and adding the word EXPLAIN ahead of the semi-colon. This will tell you whether or not the query will use any index.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:43 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to develop a custom stage to be used into sequences
Replies: 5
Views: 1982

Looping within the Transformer stage is "in the plan" for a future release, maybe even 8.2.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:36 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Exiting loop without aborting job
Replies: 11
Views: 3254

Take a look at the Webinar on job sequence techniques with file processing. (www.dsxchange.net)
by ray.wurlod
Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to resolve "Can't open DS_JOBOBJECTS" error
Replies: 21
Views: 9505

If the links are lost (possibly from running fixtool twice in succession) the file may be - probably is - irreperable.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Move the byte position
Replies: 1
Views: 847

You were given a solution for the 12-month case. Simply generalize that.

And please delete your duplicate post before anyone responds to it.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:27 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Extended Ascii &#9488;
Replies: 4
Views: 1104

Why?

It's not a valid ASCII character. It's achievable using Unicode, but there is no scope for Unicode if you do not have NLS enabled.