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A java.lang.NullPointerException usually indicates some required information not getting through. Can you invoke this particular service using some other tool such as SOAPui (which is downloadable for free)?

Have you successfully imported the WSDL for this web service?

I'm not aware of any restrictions. This one looks like a bug to me; you could raise it with your official support provider. You might also check at Fix Central whether there's a patch or fix pack that addresses this particular issue.

You can do all of this with QualityStage - no need to use Ab Initio. Maybe Ab Initio can do it all too - that I don't know.

I understood that Ops Console is automatically pre-installed in 9.1. Is this not the case? (Currently at 8.7 site.)

Seems to me this information is required pre-installation. Might even be an interview question.

Try IBM Information Center - particularly the Installing section.

It's possible, but only if you're creating your own PAL script. Is this the case?

Welcome aboard. If the join conditions are supported by indexes they will always be faster in the database than DataStage could manage. If the join conditions are not supported by indexes they may still be faster in the database (check the execution plan) or they may be faster in DataStage. DataStag...

I don't believe so, Craig. Case-sensitivity is the rule for identifier names in the DataStage environment.

Definitely. Use a "list of things" loop. Pass it a delimited list of file pathnames. Within the loop access the activity variable StartLoop.$Counter which will contain the pathname of the file for that iteration. (StartLoop needs to be replaced with the name you used for your Start Loop ac...

That's because the ASCII representation for the Euro symbol (Char(128) is the same as that which DataStage uses internally for NULL. DataStage had this long before the Euro was invented. There is an environment variable that can be set to specify a different internal representation of NULL (for exam...

There is a pre-stored command for listing remote hashed files. Slightly more accurate, since LISTFR includes the DSEngine directory, would be

You could check the sequence's log, where there may be enough old entries for you to determine the most recent successful completion (after all, log purge does not occur if a job (or sequence) fails). Otherwise, if you're on version 8.7 or later and have implemented DataStage Operations Console, the...

Then it appears that your rename has worked in only one of the two repositories. This can be remedied using SyncProject (a part of ISALite).

Welcome aboard.

253 is an important value in DataStage server edition; it encodes "value mark", one of the dynamic array delimiters.

You could try entering it in hexadecimal. I can't recall exactly how to do this (currently in an airport lounge) but it would be something like &xFD