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by ray.wurlod
Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:15 am
Forum: General
Topic: Director and Manager not opening
Replies: 6
Views: 1839

... or at least disabling your antivirus AND FIREWALL (or opening the ports that the product uses, primarily 31538).
by ray.wurlod
Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:57 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Running Script through Execute Command Activity
Replies: 12
Views: 3062

The problem is in your script, which exits with a status of 1. DataStage assumes that a non-zero exit status is a failure, since this is the convention followed in all shells. If you want to make sure that this does not occur, make sure that your script exits with a zero status if the script does no...
by ray.wurlod
Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:55 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: To trace the time taken for execution for a particular job
Replies: 1
Views: 879

What you seek to do is cumbersome, though possible. The dsjob command includes options for reading the job log; you must provide the project name and job name whose log you wish the command to access. To get the job number associated with a job name from UNIX (which you don't need to use the dsjob c...
by ray.wurlod
Sat Nov 08, 2008 4:47 am
Forum: General
Topic: ORA-01008: not all variables bound
Replies: 8
Views: 2921

Please mark as Resolved using the green button at the top.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Nov 08, 2008 4:46 am
Forum: General
Topic: Oracle Enterprise Problem
Replies: 3
Views: 1039

Probably easier to uninstall and re-install the client than to try to diagnose. If you don't want to do this, involve your official support provider.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:13 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Modify Stage(Defining new column with value assigned to it)
Replies: 9
Views: 13058

Please back this kind of assertion with empirical evidence. That is, create both kinds of job and take measurements. You may be surprised.
parag.s.27 wrote:as a performance improvement task, we are replacing all those transformers those are performing operations that can be handled by another light weight stage.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:08 am
Forum: General
Topic: ORA-01008: not all variables bound
Replies: 8
Views: 2921

You are right about the foreign key. Prefer generated SQL - it will always match the number of columns in your job design. If you want to update all columns then you must mention, and provide values for, all columns in your job design.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:27 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Running Script through Execute Command Activity
Replies: 12
Views: 3062

Leave out the sh -c and the double quotes.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:26 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: MatchFrequency problemwith more data
Replies: 3
Views: 4798

Disable operator combination so you can discover which stage is throwing the error. You are running out of scratch space, and there is at least one short record in your input data. This can be discerned directly from the error messages.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: South Africa
Replies: 3
Views: 1485

I will be staying at the Sunnyside Park Hotel, Prince of Wales Terrace, Parktown. Please get in touch by PM or email if you'd like to say hi while I'm in country.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Regarding Merge and Join Stage
Replies: 2
Views: 1178

Without knowing how you define performance it is impossible to answer your question. The stage types do different things - a Join stage performs a join, a Merge stage effects a Master-and-Update mechanism.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:37 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Database connectivity to MS SQL Server
Replies: 3
Views: 1782

ODBC messages always have a string of entries in square brackets at the beginning. You can read about them in the ODBC API manual (Microsoft Press). For example [ODBC] indicates the ODBC driver manager. [Data Direct][ODBC lib] specifies that the driver library supplied by vendor Data Direct was invo...
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Luncheon Webinar - IBM IOD Conference Update questions
Replies: 5
Views: 1437

Yes, New OR Enhanced was the heading. Pivot stage has been enhanced (though one presentation had it as new). Still horizontal only, still "watch this space" for vertical pivot".
by ray.wurlod
Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:37 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: metadata mismatch
Replies: 2
Views: 1287

CHAR is the same as Char(1) is the same as string[1]