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by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:57 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Sequential file input with optional columns
Replies: 6
Views: 1293

I don't think you can do it with properties. You can read the entire record as a VarChar, parsing it subsequently using a Transformer stage.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Subroutine to be executed inside the job control routine
Replies: 2
Views: 894

Is this your own (user-written) job control routine, or was it created using a Batch or a Job Sequence?

If it's your own, then you use the CALL statement to invoke a BASIC subroutine. You must know the BASIC subroutine's Catalog name (typically the subroutine name with a "DSU." prefix).
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to Import DS Macro ?
Replies: 9
Views: 5576

Getting it is the easy part. Read the help for the DSGetLinkInfo() function. What do you want to do with it once you have it?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Syntax for substring
Replies: 10
Views: 3016

Perform the calculation, then convert the decimal number to a string. You can use the Right() function to extract the relevant number of characters from the right-hand end.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:35 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Compile 'hangs'
Replies: 4
Views: 1475

Start with the job that compiles. Add bits to it until it doesn't compile. Figure out what the problem is with the most recently-added bit.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Warning Msg in wrapper stage job
Replies: 6
Views: 1775

hhh wrote:Is there any environment variable so we can eliminate such kind of warning message.


No.

You can right-click on the message itself and create a local message handler.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: COALESCE handling null value
Replies: 6
Views: 3696

Welcome aboard. :D
You would be far better off converting the NULL to "" within the job design. There is a built-in Transform called NullToEmpty exactly for that purpose.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: calling a sequencer from teradata-multi load stage
Replies: 7
Views: 5813

Have you tried using user-defined SQL? Have you tried using a database sequence in the manner you describe? The important thing, if you do, is NOT to provide a value from DataStage for that particular column; the number of columns in the DataStage job must exactly match the number of parameter marke...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Regarding Delimiters
Replies: 2
Views: 2195

There's no need to involve the intermediate file(s) mentioned by Arnd; you still need to use a Transformer stage to parse the individual lines. Alternatively you could use a filter command such as sed or awk or tr to translate the delimiter characters prior to the lines being processed by DataStage....
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:42 pm
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: Sequencing the flow
Replies: 10
Views: 2917

You can have multiple stages (except investigation stages) in a job, but that's about all there is for sequencing in QualityStage alone. You could, of course, involve DataStage to get your sequencing, using the QS plug-in but, as others have noted, this is not the world's friendliest interface. Or y...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:06 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Warning Msg in wrapper stage job
Replies: 6
Views: 1775

It's reporting that your Wrapper stage finishes successfully. I guess it's a warning because the framework does not expect to find Wrapper stages, and so marks it as "unusual". Use a Message Handler to demote the warning to an informational message.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:04 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to remove extra lines in the output file?
Replies: 6
Views: 1865

Welcome aboard. :D It would appear that you have a switch enabled in your shell that reports argument substitutions. If you can find out what this switch is, disabling it ought to remove the message. Type CMD /? to find out more about shell switches. You might also like to try using %1 rather than &...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:03 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to remove extra lines in the output file?
Replies: 6
Views: 1865

Welcome aboard. :D It would appear that you have a switch enabled in your shell that reports argument substitutions. If you can find out what this switch is, disabling it ought to remove the message. Type CMD /? to find out more about shell switches. You might also like to try using %1 rather than &...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:58 am
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: profile stage documentation
Replies: 1
Views: 2762

See if you can sweet talk your vendor into providing a copy, perhaps with a time-limited licence. There is no other legal way to obtain a copy of the software. The software itself comes with the usual manuals, but the only "tutorial" therein is the "getting started" chapter. You would need to enrol ...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:11 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Update table taking too long.
Replies: 8
Views: 3852

Doesn't the Oracle Enterprise stage do this automatically? It ought to. IMHO, of course.