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by ray.wurlod
Sun Dec 16, 2007 2:32 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Wait For File
Replies: 6
Views: 5730

As delivered, that is the case. But you can readily adapt it - you need one extra variable to record the previous time.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Dec 16, 2007 2:28 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Creating XML file with Japanese letters using NLS installati
Replies: 2
Views: 1062

Don't forget that you are sending these data from the server to the client if you are using View Data; this means that there must be a proper map (one whose name ends in "-CS") for that. If you write the data to a text file and view that on UNIX with a text viewer (such as pg, more, cat) do the char...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Dec 16, 2007 2:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Sybase OC VS ODBC Stage
Replies: 9
Views: 5022

Does the target end of your design look like this? -----> Transformer -----> ODBC | Output |Rejects | V SequentialFile In the ODBC stage set rows/transaction to 1 and parameter array size to 1. Create new columns on the rejects output to capture SQLSTATE, DBMSCODE and LASTERR link variables from the...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Dec 16, 2007 2:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Multi instance job and file locking
Replies: 1
Views: 893

The operating system prescribes ONE WRITER ONLY for a sequential file. Therefore: 1. Yes, you will have a file locking scenario. 2. No, using Append mode will not help. Use temporary files, cat them to the main file at job end - that is, in an after-job subroutine - (it does not matter if this locks...
by ray.wurlod
Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Wait For File
Replies: 6
Views: 5730

FUNCTION WaitForFile(RegExp, TimeOut) * RegExp is a regular expression to be matched by command * TimeOut is number of seconds to wait before abandoning wait Equate CheckInterval To 2 ; * seconds to sleep between tests Equate LF To Char(10) Equate COMMA To "," Start = Time...
by ray.wurlod
Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:27 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Wait For File
Replies: 6
Views: 5730

WaitForFile activity does not support wildcards. It is easy enough to create a routine that can do so, and invoke it through a Routine activity.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Is it mandatory to sort,partition for JOIN
Replies: 1
Views: 858

Yes. Several stage types, Join among them, are documented as requiring that their inputs be sorted.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Unable to load into a Table from a dataset.............
Replies: 8
Views: 1893

How was the Data Set created? Does the job that reads from it use the same configuration file as the one that created it?
by ray.wurlod
Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:40 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: To calculate Yesterdays date(Timestamp).
Replies: 4
Views: 6242

Explore the DateFromDaysSince() function.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem with entire partitioning in lookup
Replies: 6
Views: 1338

The best partitioning for lookup is identical partitioning to the stream input.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:31 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Implicit conversion,modify stage
Replies: 8
Views: 1914

Because you haven't changed anything! BigInt is uint64. The function requires uint32 as its argument.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:29 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Regarding VOC File
Replies: 8
Views: 3950

More simply: cd to the project directory before invoking uvsh/dssh.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:28 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: APT_CombinedOperatorController(4),0: Operator terminated abn
Replies: 5
Views: 3861

What is the Lookup Failed rule in your Lookup stage? How large is the reference data set?
by ray.wurlod
Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:24 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to unlock a job accessed by another user
Replies: 8
Views: 3353

ALL the commands need to be in upper case, including UNLOCK.
The UNLOCK verb must be in the VOC file where you are attempting to execute it.