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by ray.wurlod
Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:03 am
Forum: General
Topic: How to find jobs using shared container?
Replies: 18
Views: 4024

You do not (and cannot) know which records are in DATA.30 and OVER.30 and, indeed, they can move between the two as the dynamic hashed file rearranges itself. So please do not make the statement that the ones you want are in DATA.30. It's just not correct. The field names F1 through F10 are, as you ...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: All business projects into only one dsproject???
Replies: 2
Views: 1072

Depending on the operating system there may be a limit on the number of subdirectories that you can have in a directory. Since each DataStage job creates up to ten subdirectories, this is straightaway a potential limit on the number of jobs you could have in a project on those operating systems. Tha...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Transformer Compile Error Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
Replies: 9
Views: 5365

What's the exact error message? What does it tell you?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Px Jobs are importing in uncompiled state
Replies: 17
Views: 13915

Murphy was an optimist.

Muphry's Law applies to typesetting.

:lol:
by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Limit number of jobs to run parallel
Replies: 5
Views: 1199

This functionality is available in version 9.1, in the form of Workload Management Queues.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:15 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: data structure in aggregator stage
Replies: 1
Views: 753

It's not documented. Essentially it's a hash table keyed by the combined value of the grouping keys and containing the aggregation results for that group.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Column comparison of two fixed length files of same layout
Replies: 3
Views: 1322

Welcome aboard. Read the file records as a single field, add line numbers, use a Difference stage to identify any difference, and join on line numbers.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:08 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Hashed file performance issue
Replies: 1
Views: 1348

Have you looked at tuning the hashed file, particularly reserving the disk space they need? Are the records very large?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: IBM Websphere Application service
Replies: 5
Views: 1291

Not a silly question at all. You've learned something about systematic diagnosis, as have the others who've read this thread.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MQ Support
Replies: 10
Views: 3197

As noted, CDC for DataStage can use the MQ Connector - you don't need the (old) plug-in and therefore don't need to re-install.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:03 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Invalid property value DB2
Replies: 4
Views: 1638

Look in the job log. Is the SQL actually used logged? Have quote characters been stripped?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Dec 17, 2012 3:54 pm
Forum: Site/Forum
Topic: Slide-Ins
Replies: 11
Views: 8687

Also, when I enable InPrivate browsing (which, among other things, blocks cookies) the problem does not occur.

Perhaps I'll try purging all Internet history including cookies.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Dec 17, 2012 3:49 pm
Forum: Site/Forum
Topic: Slide-Ins
Replies: 11
Views: 8687

This week whatever it is is intercepting certain key words such as Job and converting them into hyperlinks that pop up advertising sites.

It's only on my laptop; I can still DSXchange from work and from other computers.

Further investigation is clearly needed!
by ray.wurlod
Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:28 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Oracle connector giving error
Replies: 4
Views: 2071

Check the spelling of every identifier in the Oracle Connector.