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by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:59 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to handle special characters
Replies: 2
Views: 2223

Check your Oraacle manuals - is lower case u-umlaut handled in this map?

Also, what map have you set for DataStage?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:58 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Routine for deleting Dataset
Replies: 12
Views: 3554

The client has MKS Toolkit. It installs with Enterprise Edition on Windows.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:53 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date conversion
Replies: 3
Views: 993

Earlier you were complaining about needing to do this 100 times. Presumably you are now happy with that.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:51 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Tracking the size or no. of rows in a seq file
Replies: 7
Views: 2562

The STATUS statement, documented in the Server Job Developer's Guide, returns a dynamic array relating to the file open on its file variable. One of the elements of this dynamic array is the file size in bytes. So all you need to do is read the manual, and you'll have it all. Note that the STATUS st...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:48 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to check size for hash file
Replies: 8
Views: 2810

The pathname needs to be quoted - Windows O/S thinks the "/" is a switch.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:46 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Using Locate Statement
Replies: 4
Views: 1264

LOCATE will not do a partial string search. You need the FINDSTR statement. By the way, if you OPEN the directory and READ the entire file in a single read statement, you will automatically have your dynamic array.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:28 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Funnel warnings
Replies: 7
Views: 2255

It is a requirement of the Funnel stage that the record schema on the inputs and output links are all identical. At least structurally.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:27 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Aggregator
Replies: 12
Views: 6921

How is the Preserve Partitioning flag set on the stage that is upstream of the Aggregator?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Routine for deleting Dataset
Replies: 12
Views: 3554

srini.dw wrote:Thanks for the response,

but I need to write a PX routine to delete a dataset.

Thank You,
No you don't.
If you must have a routine, it must ultimately invoke orchadmin command.
There is no other safe way to delete a Data Set.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:22 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date conversion
Replies: 3
Views: 993

Probably worth writing a routine if there are that many.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:19 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: need help in understanding which has better performance
Replies: 2
Views: 1105

Start by sharing what your definition of "performance" is in an ETL context.

Tip: Rows/second is an almost entirely meaningless metric.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DataStage PX in the IBM Product lines
Replies: 1
Views: 1146

Welcome aboard. IBM Information Server is the underlying technology behind DataStage version 8.0 and later (that is, not 7.5). The most recently released version is 8.1. DataStage PX was not a long-lived name. It was dreamed up by Ascential Marketing to mean "parallel extender" but it wasn...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to get data between ;'s
Replies: 7
Views: 1573

dr.murthy wrote:Hi,

just try with this Field(inputcolumn, ',' ,2).it works fine.
Not if the delimiter is ";".

:!: Attention to detail is SO important in this kind of work.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:11 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error compiling parallel transformer
Replies: 10
Views: 4005

Did you completely uninstall (including cleaning out the Registry)?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:08 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Not able to connect one particular Datastage Server
Replies: 5
Views: 2132

That might stop you seeing something in the 62.87.1.* domain from the 62.87.6.* domain.