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by ray.wurlod
Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:28 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Oracle Database access
Replies: 8
Views: 2152

Define "performance" in an ETL context. Rows/sec is almost totally meaningless (search forum for my reasons). It really depends on how good the ODBC driver is how close it gets to a native driver. As a general rule, however, ODBC needs an extra layer of software (driver manager) as well as has to "t...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Database Lookup return multiple results
Replies: 8
Views: 2443

=We have the following requirement.

You do not hijack someone else's thread, particularly resolved issues. You create a new topic. Near the top of the main part of the page you will find an icon Post new topic that allows you to do so.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:37 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error_When_Opening_dataset
Replies: 8
Views: 1832

A Data Set has the columns with which it was created. You must delete the Data Set and re-run the job that creates it.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:35 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Could not create temp file for mmap
Replies: 3
Views: 1697

Check permissions for scratch disk direcories, for the UVTEMP directory and for the /tmp directory.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:34 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: how to find row count of a link and store it is as a data
Replies: 7
Views: 4001

There is an environment variable (something like APT_PM_ROWCOUNTS) that causes each player process to display its row counts.
by ray.wurlod
Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:32 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Multiple inputs in TPUMP stage-possible?
Replies: 2
Views: 736

Welcome aboard.

In parallel jobs you will need multiple TPUMP stages. The GUI tells you this by not allowing multiple inputs.

Server job is a totally different product.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Kill Controlling job
Replies: 7
Views: 2443

Curious how there's never time to do it right, necessitating allocation of more time to do it again.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: UNIX environment variables
Replies: 1
Views: 788

Call DSExecute("UNIX", "echo $MYVARIABLE", Output, ExitStatus)
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: INSERTing maximum value
Replies: 17
Views: 4634

There is a link from Source to Lookup (probably through a Column Generator unless you select the constant key from source). There is no link from Source to Transformer.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:45 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Unable to read text fields with Oracle ODBC
Replies: 2
Views: 810

Do you have NLS enabled?
Do you have LANG_C or NLS_LANG environment variables set?
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:41 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: DS job solution arcitecture problem
Replies: 3
Views: 1656

Click the Generate Report tool in Designer. Save the intermediate file if desired. Post the report.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:40 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Kill Controlling job
Replies: 7
Views: 2443

The best approach is to change all the job sequences that need changing.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Hash File which can hold more than 2 GB data
Replies: 23
Views: 6482

If they won't, use a Distributed file of at least ten parts.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:36 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: A basic question on Database stage
Replies: 4
Views: 1676

Yes. No. Maybe. Depends on the stage type.

Your question was in the server forum, so got a server job answer.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:36 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Error updating secondary indicies
Replies: 3
Views: 1796

Do the indices exist? Can you execute DS.REINDEX?