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by ray.wurlod
Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:00 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: parallel datasets
Replies: 7
Views: 2233

Seamless.

But you may need a manual process to clean up the old 2-node data files.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:58 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Schema file error
Replies: 10
Views: 4315

Provide a length specification in addition to the data type specification.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:57 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: error on reading vb script generated csv file
Replies: 9
Views: 3301

You'd better tell us what the error is, since the record delimiter in this file clearly is DOS-style.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Make Subrecord Stage(Restructure Stage)
Replies: 2
Views: 1303

The problem is in a Sequential File stage called Sequential_File_8.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: ds_ipcgetnext() timeout waiting for mutex
Replies: 19
Views: 9587

What happens if you reset the aborted job, rather than recompile?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:05 am
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: Notes
Replies: 5
Views: 2480

Notes

Does anyone happen to know whether there's a way of dumping all the notes in an IA project into a single report? The notes, all the notes, and nothing but the notes.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:02 am
Forum: Site/Forum
Topic: Cant we access the old docs from DSXchange Learning Center
Replies: 2
Views: 3640

Perhaps you could let the webmaster or editor know that the links are broken.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:01 am
Forum: General
Topic: Complex Issue
Replies: 2
Views: 1074

The first question demands nothing more than an honest response; what was the most compex issue you faced in your project? The second question is designed to elicit your understanding of the business model in the project. You may have very little - as a junior developer, for example, you may have be...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:59 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: working of join stage!
Replies: 16
Views: 5536

Step 3 should be "all records with the same Join Key value are read from the left link". After all, the same join criteria will obtain all of them. This may require more than one block (buffer) of data to be read. Similarly more than one block (buffer) of data may be needed from the right ...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: XMETA owner password
Replies: 9
Views: 4320

I was going to post that tomorrow. We have installed that patch, but it still needs improvement (for example when prompting for the password it only does so once, and it does not confirm that the password has been changed). However, it seems that it does change the xmetasr password.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:53 pm
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: How to read data from IADB
Replies: 6
Views: 4043

It's worth reviewing the API because there are some questions about it in the certification exam for IA 8.5.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:58 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: APT_PERFORMANCE_DATA
Replies: 1
Views: 1542

You have to enable collection of performance data every run, in the Job Run Options dialog.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Importing one job from dsx resulting two jobs in designer
Replies: 3
Views: 1105

No surprise really - the delete command will use the index on NAME to work out what to delete.

Do a selective import to import just one of the jobs.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:51 pm
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: How to read data from IADB
Replies: 6
Views: 4043

The "strange" table names are results of profiling. That doesn't stop you from opening them. Or describing them. When you create reference tables from within IA, you get to choose the table names.