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by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:11 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Date Validations in Datastage
Replies: 34
Views: 20353

How about the server IsValid() function?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:08 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: The DSJ.JOBELAPSED bug
Replies: 4
Views: 1162

Had you downloaded my date routines you might have saved yourself some design effort.

Reuse, recycle.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Hashed file Indexed
Replies: 11
Views: 3333

In short, you're wrong. UniVerse and DataStage ARE SQL-compliant, but aren't ruled by that. There is nothing whatsoever in the SQL standards (either SQL CAE Access Group standards or ODBC standards) that requires that a key have an index. A primary key requires only a UNIQUE property. If there is a ...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:03 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Impact of high values of Modulus / Separation
Replies: 11
Views: 2177

Modulus should be a direct outcome of your choice of separation (and the volume of data to be stored). You already have the formula.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Best way to start developing using parallel jobs
Replies: 11
Views: 2106

The information that IBM released "some time back" was for version 7.0 and earlier and has been overtaken by events. Now they're advising (in their training classes) that Transformer should be perferred to Filter, on the grounds that it's compiled and Filter is "interpreted". I believe the justifica...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:57 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: same time reading and writing to hash file problem?
Replies: 4
Views: 1225

Reset the job in Director. Post whatever is in the "from previous run..." log event.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:51 pm
Forum: Site/Forum
Topic: Poll Ideas
Replies: 18
Views: 9593

Poll Hereford ?
:lol:
by ray.wurlod
Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:41 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: IsValid Function
Replies: 16
Views: 6086

IsValid Function

There is a downloadable DSX file here
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:24 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Count of Unique values within a column
Replies: 2
Views: 797

In parallel jobs you need to partition on that column for the results to be accurate.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DRS, Oracle OCI and Oracle Enterprsie
Replies: 13
Views: 2518

Define "performance" in an ETL context.

Rows/sec is, as I have frequently asseverated, meaningless.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error in Oracle Enterprise stage..
Replies: 2
Views: 1179

You must allow two extra character positions (string[max=40]), one for the sign and one for the decimal place designator.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:15 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: FTP Enterprise
Replies: 1
Views: 2305

FIFO (first-in, first-out) is another way of referring to a pipe. So either the FTP stage's operator failed to read data from a pipe, or there is something wrong with one of the commands in your FTP stage. The error message yields no more information than this. Your FTP server log may contain more h...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:13 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Typemismathch
Replies: 2
Views: 978

Try experimenting with Length and Scale. Try extracting the timestamp from the Data Set, and loading into Teradata, with no Precision or Scale. Try using a test table with Timestamp(19).
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:11 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Null Handling
Replies: 16
Views: 4485

Try putting 19 "*" characters in as the Null Field Value property.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:10 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: JOBCONTROLLER
Replies: 6
Views: 1520

Then the Help is wrong.
DataStage Designer Help wrote:DSJ.JOBCONTROLLER String - name of the job controlling the job referenced by the job handle. Note that this may be several job names separated by periods if the job is controlled by a job which is itself controlled, etc.