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by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: aborting job
Replies: 3
Views: 1124

Who says you have to abort the job? Make them justify such an ill-advised decision! Robust ETL requires that you maintain control at all times.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:45 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: aborting job
Replies: 3
Views: 1124

Welcome aboard. :D Your problem is that you can't know in advance how many represents 10% unless you know how many are in the file to begin with. You could pre-process the row to get this count. Direct the Reject output link from the Sequential File stage through a Transformer stage which tests whet...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:39 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: NLS
Replies: 4
Views: 2518

Welcome aboard. :D

That's not a question we can answer.

You have to know, or find out, how (that is, according to which standard) the data are encoded. That will indicate which NLS character map is appropriate to use.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: error connecting to UniData 6
Replies: 9
Views: 4695

UniData natively is, like UniVerse, a non-first-normal form database. UniData tables can be presented, for SQL access, as first normal form tables using dynamic normalization techniques. A UniData Administrator is usually involved in this process. Once there exists a schema, then table privileges mu...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:25 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: error connecting to UniData 6
Replies: 9
Views: 4695

Presumably the UniData file has been SQL-ized and you have not been granted SELECT privilege to it. Ask your UniData Administrator.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Datastage Migration from 6.0.11 to Latest Version
Replies: 8
Views: 1852

Hi ArndW, Many thanks for your reply. Thanks a lot. I was not able to understand your last comment "I think that the restriction that job parameter values cannot be changed from within the job came in at Version 7; so if you used this functionality in the past you will have to redesign those jobs t...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Datastage Migration from 6.0.11 to Latest Version
Replies: 8
Views: 1852

I think that the restriction that job parameter values cannot be changed from within the job came in at Version 7; so if you used this functionality in the past you will have to redesign those jobs that used it. Job parameter values have never been able to be changed within jobs. Arnd is confusing ...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Faster Hashed File Creation
Replies: 4
Views: 1220

Loading pauses while the structure changes. MINIMUM.MODULUS shifts the structure changes from population time to creation time, but the same amount of work still has to be done. Meanwhile the timer is still running. This helps to explain the low initial rows/sec value. There are no hash collisions a...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:10 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Errors exporting metadata with Reporting Assistant
Replies: 10
Views: 4495

I believe there are a couple of views on the MetaStage directory that can be used to get metadata out more easily than trying to query the underlying tables (which are complexly interrelated). Not working at a site with MetaStage this week, so can't tell you the names - check with your support provi...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Call to SQLFetch failed
Replies: 13
Views: 4281

jshurak wrote:BUMP

I find that totally offensive. I asked you reasonable questions to help to diagnose your problem, you have not answered them, and you are demanding answers. Also, we are people, not pinball machines.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Performance Tuning
Replies: 3
Views: 1249

Start by defining "performance" and how you measure it. Rows/second is not a valid mechanism for comparing between jobs for a number of reasons.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: 24 months back date from Current date
Replies: 2
Views: 1042

Split the date into year, month and day. Subtract 2 from the year. If the month and day are 2 and 29 subtract 1 from the day. Re-assemble date.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:57 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to avoid NULL to reject - in SWITCH case
Replies: 20
Views: 6515

SetNull() can be used provided the target column is defined as nullable.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Parallel job reports failure (code 139)
Replies: 4
Views: 2655

SIGKILL isn't called from DataStage. This indicates that someone has used kill -9 to kill one or more of your processes.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Datastage px Sequencer
Replies: 2
Views: 1125

Please don't ask for "urgent" or "ASAP". As volunteers we find it offensive. Urgent help can be obtained from your support provider in exchange for large amounts of money.