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by ray.wurlod
Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Report the Busines Rules - inside Stage Variables
Replies: 3
Views: 1231

If you publish the data rules you can either open in Information Analyzer or create a report of the rules, and copy from there to paste into DataStage.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:08 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Two Characters as delimiter
Replies: 10
Views: 4136

The problem is whoever created data in this format.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Decimal format
Replies: 5
Views: 1621

The first argument does NOT include the sign. The definition ("digits") is correct.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:42 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Two Characters as delimiter
Replies: 10
Views: 4136

"It" is converting nothing. It is finding these {c2 ac} sequences in the data.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:03 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Two Characters as delimiter
Replies: 10
Views: 4136

Maybe, since you are on Windows, the record_delimiter_string property value should be '\r\n' (DOS style).
by ray.wurlod
Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:59 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: override string similarity function
Replies: 3
Views: 3658

For example, these two would match using Reverse Soundex, even without any other standardisation.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 03, 2014 5:45 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Number of transformer stages affects performance ?
Replies: 20
Views: 8572

Confuted indeed.

Parallel jobs use the transform operator - the parallel Transformer stage is merely a convenient (= GUI) way of setting it up.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 03, 2014 5:41 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: StringToDecimal
Replies: 8
Views: 4267

The server Oconv() function with "MD"-style conversion can also specify the number of decimal places. In your example.

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Oconv(InLink.MaskedValue, "MD3") 
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 03, 2014 5:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to get last 5 job logs in datastage?
Replies: 2
Views: 1100

Also define "last 5". Do you mean "last 5 for this particular job", "last 5 runs in this particular project" or even "last 5 jobs run on this server"?
by ray.wurlod
Sun Aug 03, 2014 5:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ODBC ISSUE(Datetime field overflow)
Replies: 7
Views: 3409

Microsoft does not believe that any other dates than those mentioned in the referenced article exist!
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:53 pm
Forum: DSXchange Testimonials
Topic: Gone Live
Replies: 2
Views: 16701

Glad we could help.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:00 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reading decimal values in schema files
Replies: 9
Views: 4713

You're in France, using a French locale, which specifies space as the thousands delimiter and comma as the decimal placeholder (which is correct for France). You can change this easily by changing the NLS locale used by that job.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:07 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Q. apt file Node setting
Replies: 3
Views: 1324

The job will automatically split the data over the four nodes for processing. If you use Round Robin partitioning, which is the default in most cases, then they will be distributed evenly. Whether or not your scratch space is consumed depends on whether your job performs operations that require scra...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 30, 2014 10:20 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Join on subset of data
Replies: 2
Views: 1793

Or is it that you wish to match against the final digit of the first ID?
Your requirement is not clearly stated.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 30, 2014 10:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Address Parsing Help Parallel Transformer
Replies: 7
Views: 2303

I'd be using a Standardize stage (QualityStage component) with an appropriate address rule set (e.g. USADDR).