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by ray.wurlod
Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Passing Dynamic Metadata And Database TableName
Replies: 3
Views: 2155

RCP doesn't (can't) perform metadata checking.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:46 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: DataStage Job 13651 Phantom 4114
Replies: 3
Views: 2843

This has to be a bug. DSD.RUN is one of "theirs". dyn_replace assigns a value to an element of a dynamic array. The code should be loading the value 11 into field 2 of the dynamic array called JOB. Involve your official support provider. It may be that a vital run time option has been omit...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Mystery: random change in output value from transformer
Replies: 3
Views: 749

Random thought: I wonder if it's rounding based on the oddness-evenness of the final digit? What happened on the third day? If my hypothesis holds up, it should add one day. Of course if it were working properly, it shouldn't add or subtract at all! Maybe you need to effect DecimalToString() earlier...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:08 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Filter_17: Error occurred during initializeFromArgs().
Replies: 3
Views: 2016

Show us how you configured your Filter stage, in particular the filter WHERE clauses and associated output link identifications.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Datastage Director Log in Milseconds
Replies: 2
Views: 1045

Ah. An easy question. You can't.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: estimate time
Replies: 1
Views: 842

You ask them how long is a piece of string, enumerate maybe half a dozen of the variable factors, then get them to do one. That's the best estimate of elapsed time you're going to get.

The DataStage Resource Estimation tool will estimate resources required, but not elapsed time.
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:26 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reusable Component design
Replies: 1
Views: 731

Welcome aboard. This seems to be a similar requirement to that posted by bicap earlier today. Perhaps you've been to the same interview? It's readily enough done using Runtime Column Propagation except that, if you have to mention a column name in your logic, that column name must appear in your met...
by ray.wurlod
Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:40 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: how to send different partions data to different targets?
Replies: 7
Views: 1260

Welcome aboard. When's the interview? Why the requirement to use partitioning technology? It probably can be done, but would not be for the faint-hearted. As SURA suggests, the partitioning technology handles from one to a countably infinite number of processing nodes, so you would need to devise a ...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:25 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Activity count zero for Stream Operator update or delete
Replies: 7
Views: 4745

So what you've sent to Teradata is the equivalent of UPDATE stuff WHERE 1=0 and it didn't like it. You need to re-design to avoid this situation.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Activity count zero for Stream Operator update or delete
Replies: 7
Views: 4745

What reason for Abort is given in the job log?

We can't see your system!
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:05 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Passing Dynamic Metadata And Database TableName
Replies: 3
Views: 2155

That's pretty straightforward. Parameterise the table name and use the same parameter in the text file name. Use RPC throughout (you effectively get select * from table happening). Loop through a list of table names obtained from the database's system tables to get the names. Maybe create a simple (...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:35 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Passing Dynamic Metadata And Database TableName
Replies: 3
Views: 2155

I have to read from Database and write into a DataSet from all the available tables in each schema by using a single DataStage job. Why? A DataStage Data Set can only have a single record structure. So, unless every single one of these tables has the same record structure, or your single DataStage ...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:56 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Records are rejected which have Null Values for ints & D
Replies: 2
Views: 1013

What does the source actually put into those fields to represent NULL? That's what you must have as the Null Field Value property. If they are actually empty, try using double quotes rather than single quotes for Null Field Value. If you have a fixed-width format, however, you need the Null Field Va...
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to Ouput Reject Records from DB2 Connector
Replies: 5
Views: 1666

And do you have a reject link from the Sequential File stage also? You need to be able to handle the case that the data don't match the metadata.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: SCD null handling method
Replies: 2
Views: 1145

I think that that is how it should work. It's the same concept as grouping all the nulls together when sorting - it's not an assertion that they're equal, but it is saying that they're "together" in some sense.