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by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:34 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: aggregator performance
Replies: 9
Views: 2373

Do you really need the count as a separate operation? Why not calculate it as you are processing the actual file?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:32 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: SCD TYpe2 Process
Replies: 5
Views: 1303

And have you set up this column on the output link?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:31 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem in defining one business rule in transformer
Replies: 6
Views: 2366

Thank you Sir, It worked. Such a small thing and it created a havoc. Can you explain me what's the difference in writing Trim(Variable[from,len]) and Trim(Variable)[from,len]. The obvious difference is where Variable contains leading trimmable characters. The first syntax strips the first len chara...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: capacity planning
Replies: 2
Views: 1496

More is better.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:28 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Ensuring hashed file is created when the job executes
Replies: 11
Views: 4139

Relying on auto-create will prove counterproductive if the job design reads from and writes to the same hashed file.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:27 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: MS access arabic character display - problem
Replies: 2
Views: 1197

Avoid per-column mapping if you can - this is only needed where different columns are encoded differently, and it slows down processing hugely.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:24 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Appending to a Sequential File using Seek
Replies: 2
Views: 1241

Re: Appending to a Sequential File using Seek

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by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Performance
Replies: 5
Views: 1889

Are you using inter-process row buffering to leverage multiple processes (assuming that you have more than one active stage)? Have you considered using multiple instances of the job each processing a distinct subset of the data, but running in parallel (assuming that you have spare resources)? Are y...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Paramter sets
Replies: 4
Views: 1241

$PROJDEF works properly (does not need to be overridden) in version 8.1.

I have not yet tried to specify $PROJDEF as a default value for an environment variable parameter in a values file, but see no reason that it would not work.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:00 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem in defining one business rule in transformer
Replies: 6
Views: 2366

Advise the data types of all the fields mentioned in the expression. Without that we can't really help.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:59 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: dataset append giving error
Replies: 3
Views: 3860

Only one append is permitted in any one job, apparently.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:55 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Implementing job dependencies in a sequence job
Replies: 7
Views: 1815

Yes but that would take longer and introduce dependencies that don't actually exist, e.g. H depending on A.

Code: Select all

A --+
    |
B --+
    |                        --> J
C --+--> F --> G --> H --> I --> K
    |                        --> L
D --+
    |
E --+
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:48 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Routine
Replies: 1
Views: 1166

To be visible in the Transformer stage expression editor, the routine must be of type "transform function".

To be visible in the Transformer stage before-stage or after-stage subroutine field, the routine must be of type "before/after subroutine.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:46 am
Forum: General
Topic: Convert the Date Formate from Timestamp to Date only
Replies: 2
Views: 903

Server jobs do not enforce data types so you can simply get the leftmost 10 characters.

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Left(InLink.TheTimestamp,10)
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:48 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Looping Function
Replies: 14
Views: 8499

Load it into an upstream user variable and trim the line terminator from it there.