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by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Slowly Changin Dimension
Replies: 8
Views: 3102

Yes they are. :o

Maybe you've had network/internet problems?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Generate Sequence
Replies: 2
Views: 982

There are lots of ways.

Search this site for terms like "surrogate key", "slowly changing dimension" and "sequence" to learn about some of them.

Ultimately you have to capture your start point from the target table and increment from there.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:47 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Does DS uses 2 processors on the same machine ?
Replies: 4
Views: 1309

Quite probably. DataStage generates a process to run the job, and possibly (probably) other processes to execute active stages (such as Transformer stages). The operating system is likely to allocate multiple processes to multiple CPUs. Of course, on a Windows machine, there will be many other deman...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:41 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to get field displacement from outside DataStage
Replies: 6
Views: 1444

I am sorry. It is not an answer to my question. Did you try to answer somebody else? A rough check on line length might suffice. Line length is the quotient after dividing characters in file ( wc -c file ) by lines in file ( wc -l file ) which you can do using the UNIX command expr . Check out the ...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:09 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to get field displacement from outside DataStage
Replies: 6
Views: 1444

A rough check on line length might suffice.
Line length is the quotient after dividing characters in file (wc -c file) by lines in file (wc -l file) which you can do using the UNIX command expr.
Check out the man pages for the wc, cut and expr commands.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to get the sequence number in datastage
Replies: 4
Views: 6695

@OUTROWNUM may be a better choice. If you later add constraints to your Transformer stage, you will get gaps in the number sequence (which may not matter if they are only being used for uniqueness). @INROWNUM counts the rows coming in to a Transformer stage. @OUTROWNUM counts the rows leaving a Tran...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Feb 18, 2004 12:56 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Lotus Domino Data Extraction
Replies: 1
Views: 781

You could determine whether there is a C-callable API for the Domino database server and, if there is, you could write a plug-in stage. This is not something for the faint-hearted! You need excellent C programming skills (and C++ if you're going to have a custom GUI). If it's just Lotus spreadsheets...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:47 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: need Datastage license key ( windows 2000 )
Replies: 7
Views: 2163

I concur 100% with the previous responses. However, if you can make a case that you're likely to purchase a license, Ascential may be prepared to issue a 30 day evaluation license. After the 30 days are up, all you have to do is fork over the US$100000 or so that a license costs (actual price depend...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:42 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Bumping uvconfig parameters
Replies: 6
Views: 1776

TXMEM sets a limit (before spilling to disk) on the in-memory size of a transaction in the DataStage engine environment. There are very few transactions that occur here (mainly when you're using insert/update with the UV stage). 32KB should be plenty. SYNCALOC is about robustness of operations that ...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Bumping uvconfig parameters
Replies: 6
Views: 1776

T30FILE is hard to hit. Au contraire! You CAN hit it by running lots of jobs simultaneously. Almost all of the repository files (and their dictionaries) associated with a job are hashed files, so there's 6-10 per job already. Now add your lookups and it's not hard to hit 200 on a decent server. (Bu...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Kicking Off A DataStage Job From Another Application.
Replies: 6
Views: 2369

You've pretty much got it covered.
You have to build all the options for the dsjob command, then run this as a DOS level command, ideally in a separate memory space.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:20 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: DataStage Server Engine Log?
Replies: 1
Views: 1013

Welcome to the Forum! There is no server process. That is, there is no process called "the server" or "the engine" that could keep a log. There are some optionally started processes, such as the deadlock daemon. If started, these will keep a log, for example dsdlockd.log. Each job that runs keeps it...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:14 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Sequential file EOF
Replies: 2
Views: 1053

If you're doing this in BASIC there's an easy answer. The ReadSeq statement takes its ELSE path if you are at end of file. So you could: Loop ReadSeq Line From SeqFileVar Else Exit statements Repeat This can also be written using the Boolean context of ReadSeq. Loop While ReadSeq Line From SeqFileVa...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Set the Stage Variable at the Transformer Level
Replies: 6
Views: 1527

Hi Ray, Thanks a lot Ray but I need u r suggestion ,I have designed a job where in I need to pass the Header Information ,Trailer Information and The Detail info , for more validations , to an other job but How can I pass it a)Thru Job Parameters b)Write to a file and then call that file on the nex...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Feb 17, 2004 3:14 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Set the Stage Variable at the Transformer Level
Replies: 6
Views: 1527

When you're assigning values anywhere in DataStage GUI, such as initializing or modifying stage variables, you are using an expression, not a statement. Therefore there's no requirement for Set (btw there is no Set in DataStage BASIC, though there is a Let). All you need is an expression that return...