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Responded also by private email. Check out Ascential's contact form as well as their training options page. I can't believe you've only got $500 training budget for such an expensive item of software! Note, too, that since adopting Sarbanes-Oxley, everything at Ascential is being done strictly "by t...

Ahh, those wonderful undocumented features! It probably wasn't originally meant to work like that, but the mechanism for resolving "parameter" references turns out to be quite flexible.

Anything with a name beginning with "DSD." is used within DataStage. Recourse to official support is your only option. I can only guess at what the various DSD... routines do, but won't do so in case I mislead you.

The PC from which you've failed to connect has a DataStage client licence that is authorised for four users installed. (Actually, it's on the first client that connected to that server, rather from the one that failed, from which the licence count is set.) When it connects, it finds that four client...

Quite simple, but not the answer you're seeking: the Orchestrate engine (which underlies Parallel Extender) has not yet (as of version 7.5) been ported to the Windows environment. That's the "why". It truly is not - as the error message told you - supported on your operating system platform. We unde...

ANALYZE.FILE can be run from the Administrator client command window, or from the TCL prompt in your project account (directory). It exists in two forms. ANALYZE.FILE filename shows the existing tuning parameter settings of a dynamic hashed file. ANALYZE.FILE filename STATS shows more information, i...

If you're in a position to use BASIC functions, these are the ones you want. Oconv(TheString, "MCN") keeps only the numeric characters. Oconv(TheString, "MC/N") keeps only the non-numeric characters. Oconv(TheString, "MCA") keeps only the alphabetic characters. Oconv(TheString, "MC/A") keeps only th...

That date looks suspiciously like "just before 01/01/1970", which is the base date for so many things. I'd suspect the problem is in the feed.
Is anyone else getting this date? Does anyone else even look at the date?!!

Welcome aboard! :D That telnet connections are also refused suggests that the problem is somewhere in UniData configuration rather than in DataStage. Is the unirpcd daemon running on the UniData server? Is it listening on the correct port number (31438)? Is UniData running on UNIX or Windows? It is ...

Although it's not conventionally implemented (lack of time) there IS a Help menu in the HFC. It provides some advice. Basically, you feed the HFC the expected number of rows and the average size of a row. You select a hashing algorithm from a drop down list and, optionally, a separation (group size)...

It's a warning that what you've nominated as the column precision for column Company_Nbr in your job (3) does not match that in the actual table (10). Change the precision in your job so that it matches what's in the actual table (and which should also appear in the imported table definition in your...

Welcome aboard! :D The message has come from the ODBC driver manager (the final piece in the list of square-bracketed components at the start of the error text). This suggests that there may be a problem with the actual ODBC driver that you're using. Might be worth investigating re-installing that d...

You're already following best practice by having two jobs. Why would you want to change? It can be done. It relies on the fact that a passive stage type can not open its outputs until all its inputs are closed. The design is below, but I'd still strongly counsel you to maintain two separate jobs; if...

Note also that, with effect from 7.5, DataStage is no longer certified for Windows NT 4.0.