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by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:41 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Aggregator stage constraint thus use of Remove Duplicates
Replies: 10
Views: 4747

Partition your data by ID using a key-based partitioning algorithm (Hash).

Take some time to learn about partitioning.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:37 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Importing Sequential File error
Replies: 6
Views: 2061

What's the bet that this file was created on a Windows system and lines are terminated with CRLF? Try changing format to use Record Delimiter String property set to "DOS style".
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: oconv(data(), "DW") = 4 .. reads as Thursday?!
Replies: 6
Views: 1743

There is a couple of settings. You can also configure that the range of numbers is 0..6.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Including SQL Scripts / Files into Deployable Packages
Replies: 5
Views: 1753

Yes, you can build project-related directories into the package, though there is a limitation that the directory must be a sub-directory of the project directory. Go into the Help for Information Server Manager, choose Overview of Deployment topic, choose Defining the Deployment Package, scroll down...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: KeyMgmt Function
Replies: 21
Views: 10200

Of course that query will initialize the ID sequence to 1, not to 0. But otherwise it should be OK. You need to query (via the routine) to get the next value even after initialization.

Is it now working? If so please mark the thread as resolved.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:09 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Increase in number of instances of the job increases time.
Replies: 7
Views: 2394

Certainly. One workaround is to run on more powerful hardware. Simply adding more processing nodes (on other machines) may suffice.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:08 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Db2 library could not be loaded
Replies: 2
Views: 5877

I can not get my car to start. Please help out get this resolved. Clearly you have not provided nearly enough information, and no-one here is going to waste time guessing what you might have done. Specify how you have configured DB2 connectivity, and how you have set the properties in the stage. Usu...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:00 am
Forum: General
Topic: KeyMgmt Function
Replies: 21
Views: 10200

... and what does "doesn't work" mean in this context? For example, if $DSHOME was not set you might get a "command not found" error.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Job monitor status is READY
Replies: 7
Views: 4101

Is your job monitor running?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:28 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Handling the special characters
Replies: 5
Views: 2534

I did wonder. XRP is the output format (well, file name suffix) for RationalPlan. I was wondering why you'd want to be processing project planning diagrams using an ETL tool.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Transfomer Loop
Replies: 5
Views: 1725

Make sure your data are partitioned by id using a key-based partitioning algorithm (modulus or hash).
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:24 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Slow running job
Replies: 15
Views: 13549

Is Transaction Size set the same in both environments? Transaction Size = 0 in TEST may cause the symptom you describe. What is the Array Size in each environment?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:22 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Hybrid SCD Type handling...
Replies: 10
Views: 3768

Same answer as in 8.5. In the SCD stage some columns can be identified for Type 1 changes and other columns can be identified for Type 2 changes, even in the same data set.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:25 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: XML stage gets "Parallel job reports failure (code 11)
Replies: 5
Views: 3448

Code 11 (signal 11) is a SIGSEGV, or segmentation violation. Looks like you've had a memory issue.