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by ray.wurlod
Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:08 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Special characters in column name
Replies: 11
Views: 6076

Welcome aboard.

Try enclosing the column name in double quotes. (You may require user-defined SQL for this.)
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:07 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Regading error in deleting Filesets.
Replies: 1
Views: 1088

You must have in place the same configuration file that was used when the File Set (or Data Set) was created, or at the very least one that is compatible and contains all of the nodes mentioned in the control file.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:05 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Null handling issue
Replies: 3
Views: 1234

It's a separate Specification containing the single word NOWARN
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:27 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Write to a Windows Shared Directory
Replies: 1
Views: 1509

There are various ways to mount a shared Windows drive onto a UNIX system, among them Samba. An Internet search will be your friend here.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:44 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to build the process in datastage
Replies: 1
Views: 856

How about YOU start the discussion by revealing what you've discovered to be useful? There are doubtless myriad approaches to achieving what you seek to do, but the one that is best will depend on many factors about which you have not provided any information, such as the environment, whether files ...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:37 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: USS
Replies: 3
Views: 1472

USS is included in DataStage (a) because a couple of very important customers wanted the capability and (b) to yield a couple of certification exam questions that none but the most esoterically prepared candidate can answer correctly.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Parallel job taking most of CPU
Replies: 11
Views: 3211

This also happened when i was the only one running jobs and no one else. You need to monitor your operating system to determine which are the "resource hogs". Parallel jobs have some reporting options that will help, such as being able to report the process ID of each player process and t...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: analyze.shm
Replies: 27
Views: 8909

There's a rule of thumb that suggests a maximum of four hashed file lookups per Transformer stage. Such a job can usually benefit from inter-process row buffering. I'm not aware of any "best practices" relating to Link Collector stage apart from don't use it if you don't need to. For examp...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Before/after Stage Subroutines
Replies: 2
Views: 966

Yes. They are "before/after subroutines" in the routine type field - no differentiation for "stage" or "job".
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:47 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Parallel job taking most of CPU
Replies: 11
Views: 3211

OK, then your server is simply overloaded. It's a supply versus demand situation. Some, including some at IBM, are coming to realize that having a tiny development server and a huge production server just doesn't "cut it" any more - you also need substantial grunt in the development server...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:43 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Auto Partitioning
Replies: 3
Views: 1202

There are very simple rules that tell what Auto delivers. Link Type Partitioning --------- ------------ Sequential - Parallel Round Robin Parallel - Parallel Same Reference input to Lookup Entire Link to DB2 stage DB2
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: how to acess internal tables of datastage
Replies: 5
Views: 2005

In version 8 there are two metadata repositories; the common repository (usually known as XMETA) and a local repository in each project. The common repository is open; that is, you can use an appropriate tool (for example DB2 Control Center if your XMETA database is DB2) to view the definitions for ...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:31 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Regarding the look Up stage
Replies: 2
Views: 1862

With Lookup File Set on the reference input or sparse lookup specified, the Key column is pre-defined. This is why the Lookup stage will not permit you to change the definition of they key. It wants a column with the same name and data type. You can use an upstream Modify or maybe even Copy stage to...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:27 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Remote DB2 Configuration Server & Parallel
Replies: 9
Views: 2713

It should be enough just to mount the PXEngine directory on the remote machines (and setting certain environment variables such as APT_ORCHHOME and PXHOME on those machines).
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:25 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: datastage not padding spaces in db2 stage!!urgent!!
Replies: 3
Views: 2659

If you need urgent help sign up with your support provider for premium service and learn just how much "urgent" costs. DSXchange is an all-volunteer site, whose members post as and when they can. Specifically, we do not "do" urgent and, indeed, react negatively when such demands...