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by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: unique alphanumeric keys with Datastage
Replies: 4
Views: 1837

Yes it's do-able - generate each character separately and concatenate.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:24 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Oracle table - Hash partitioned.
Replies: 4
Views: 1308

You need SELECT access to a number of Oracle system tables (fully documented in the Connectivity Guide for Oracle), to which DataStage refers to determine precisely in what manner the table is partitioned. You will also need to nominate a partition table property in the Oracle stage. Oracle hash par...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Job runs Longer while reading Sequential File
Replies: 1
Views: 785

Lose the If Then 1 Else 0 - the test expression itself will generate 1 or 0 in any case. Don't evaluate the TrimLeadingTrailing() function twice - pre-load it into a separate stage variable. sv1 <-- TrimLeadingTrailing(LkInto_Trns_Validation.STKRM_PULL_Q sv2 <-- sv1 > "" And IsValid("...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Assigning two DS engines to the same xmeta repository
Replies: 12
Views: 3013

Planning, Installation and Configuration Guide version 8.7 page 22 Figure 14 - Topology with Two Engine Tiers

For "two" read any reasonable number of Engine tiers.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:10 pm
Forum: Site/Forum
Topic: Slide-Ins
Replies: 11
Views: 8687

This particular slide in is purely DSXchange-related. Get Your Forum Today Design By Vjacheslav Trushkin Registered Users PhpBB Forum They all link back to this very thread!!! And there's a search tool that I'm really reluctant to try. There's a cancel X which makes it go away, but it's back again a...
by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: SFDC Plugin probem
Replies: 1
Views: 788

You're not using ProgramID in your Job design, although it is mentioned in the schema file. You must at least read this field, even though you discard it.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Assigning two DS engines to the same xmeta repository
Replies: 12
Views: 3013

That's the way it's intended to work. The last two sites I've installed have five and two engines respectively. You install selecting Engine tier only, and are then asked for the location (and other information) for the Services tier.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 12, 2012 4:30 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Hex Lowvalues
Replies: 3
Views: 1257

Char(30) will ALWAYS have 30 characters.

Trim() will trim them OK, but the data type will cause the value immediately to be padded with APT_STRING_PADCHAR characters to length.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Dec 12, 2012 4:29 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: need to create GUUID in datastage without using database
Replies: 8
Views: 1996

Find the correct header file and specify its correct pathname in the #include declaration.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:03 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Partition Techniques for each stage
Replies: 3
Views: 1201

Or even search DSXchange. I have answered this question fully in the past.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:03 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Inner Join not working
Replies: 4
Views: 2313

Show us the SQL query that you are using.

A Join condition must be specified either in the FROM clause or in the WHERE clause (SQL 101).
by ray.wurlod
Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to find number of records processed through each node
Replies: 2
Views: 1461

Use the Monitor in Director. Right click in the background and select Enable Instances. Then expand the tree to see individual nodes for each parallel stage (indicated by "x2", etc.)
by ray.wurlod
Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: length of where clause in filter stage
Replies: 2
Views: 1281

None of which I'm aware.
Any chance of using shorter column names to get under the 128KB limit?
by ray.wurlod
Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:36 pm
Forum: Site/Forum
Topic: Slide-Ins
Replies: 11
Views: 8687

Slide-Ins

Is is just me, or is anyone else getting slide-ins at the bottom of the DSXchange screen (flogging PhpBB forum, design by Vjacheslav Trushkin, etc) and occasional slide-in advertisements on the right-hand side? I'll try using a different browser (currently using IE9). Does anyone know how to disable...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Need help setting up LDAP authentication
Replies: 10
Views: 2897

AD is used to authenticate username/password and to return a list of AD groups to which the user belongs. IIS roles (suite roles and suite component roles) are assigned to AD users/groups. AD users are mapped on to one or more operating system users for access to file system on the DataStage engine....