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by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:50 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Which version of datastage (parallel job) is support.....
Replies: 4
Views: 1580

Moderator: please move to parallel forum

Version 7.5x2 is NOT supported on Windows XP for the server component and never will be. However, it does work.

The same is true of version 8.0 and 8.1.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:47 am
Forum: General
Topic: Hashed File - Key column
Replies: 7
Views: 1993

I'm confused here. A hashed file MUST have at least one key column. In the Transformer stage you set up a key expression that generates a value that is looked up. Order of key columns in the hashed file is vital. Order of non-key columns is not, provided that the metadata have been handled rigorousl...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:44 am
Forum: General
Topic: capture duplicate data
Replies: 8
Views: 2270

But it will not preserve the original rows. This design will. Filter on count < 4.

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source --->  Copy  --->  Join  --->  Filter  --->  target
               |           ^
               |           |
               +-->  Aggregator
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:45 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: SCD Type 2 in Datastage 8.0
Replies: 11
Views: 10341

Please mark thread as Resolved using the green button at top.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:44 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error running a Routine
Replies: 1
Views: 977

Code 2 usually means "not found". Can you provide more details? What's the name of the routine, was it compiled/linked correctly, is the parallel routine definition correct (particularly correct number and type of arguments), did the routine name used in the job correspond with that of the...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:40 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job Run Times
Replies: 5
Views: 2724

... until and unless a log purge has been performed. That's why people build systems like ETLstats...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:39 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: need to create db2 DSN
Replies: 1
Views: 1434

There are myriad possibilities, all described in a document created by Ascential support and available through your support provider. DSN technically is only for ODBC.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:47 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to get full outer join using join stage
Replies: 10
Views: 6223

U is one of our posters and is currently working on a server-only project. The second person personal pronoun in English is spelled "you", not "u". And the present tense of the verb "to be" in the second person is spelled "are", not "r". Please stri...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:41 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: ABAP code help required
Replies: 4
Views: 1472

The SAP R/3 Extract Stage can generate ABAP code. If you modify the stage properties appropriately, the ABAP code is changed.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:40 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: chmod: WARNING message after DS recycle
Replies: 6
Views: 2145

What is the value of your TEMP environment variable, if indeed it is set at all?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:37 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Admin Error: OPENSEQ failed on Project
Replies: 6
Views: 4181

Status 2 is "file not found". Please check the correct spelling and casing of the file name - file names on UNIX are case-sensitive.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:35 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Many instances of OSH.exe
Replies: 2
Views: 3108

Please delete your duplicate post on this before anyone responds to it.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:33 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Many instances of OSH.exe
Replies: 2
Views: 3108

Each is an executing process. Every operator runs osh, every section leader and conductor process runs osh. A parallel job executing in an N-node configuration has one conductor, N section leaders and N player processes per operator. They should go away automatically, particularly if the conductor p...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How can I remove dashes in a date format?
Replies: 7
Views: 8067

The most efficient way, in this particular case, is to use Convert() function to change the "-" characters to "".

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Convert("-", "", InLink.TheDate)
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:25 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Generate Metadata from File, then load second file?
Replies: 5
Views: 1738

I agree with Mike.

It may be easier to do in parallel jobs, by converting the metadata into a schema file, but it would still be brittle - what happens when you need to refer to some dynamically-created column name in an expression?