DSXchange

Quantify "very slow" and "faster" without using rows/sec which, as I have established elsewhere, is an essentially meaningless metric. What volume of characters is written into a text file versus what volume of characters is written into the XML file? How much extra processing is needed to create th...

Visual Studio first, then DataStage. MKS Toolkit installs as part of DataStage 7.5x2.

When you get an opportunity, stop DataStage on the server and restart. This is the only way I've ever found to clear a project lock.

1. Debugging for PX. Server type debugging. Besides Peek, Head ,Tail, Row, Column gen. Won't happen. A debugger needs a single stream of execution. In a parallel job, not only might you have multiple streams of execution, they might be on separate machines. And what happens when the grid management ...

Don't need to guess. Need to Search.

This is a known issue, and has been discussed here previously.

Have you set up the user ID as able to run as a service ?

You'll find these as Transforms, rather than as Routines. Create your own NullToValue transform in the same category. Of course, it will need two arguments, not one.

Version 7.x of DataStage is not, and will not be, certified on RH 4.

It may work, it may work with some tweaking, but IBM make no promise to support it (and officially they won't).

Check out the Survive stage.

If this resolves your question, please mark the topic as resolved.

jhmckeever's response is appropriate to parallel jobs, not server jobs.

There is no direct support for sockets in server jobs, but the Sequential File stage can work with named pipes, which comes close in functionality for inter-job connectivity.

That's why I include a copyright notice and a condition of use that the notice remains. Whether it works or not I have no idea but, if I ever encounter a violation, I intend to prosecute.

Try using backslash characters rather than forward slash characters in the Windows pathnames. If that does not work, try "escaping" the backslash characters (use "\\" instead of "\").

Yeah? Which event?