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by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Expiry date issue in Datastage administrator
Replies: 7
Views: 1983

Can you access other projects?
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:41 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Copy stage properties
Replies: 2
Views: 1479

A Copy stage that makes an identical copy of its output will be optimized out of the job design (it's not needed) when the score is created. Setting Force=True prevents this from occurring, forces the copy operator to be retained in the step design.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:37 am
Forum: General
Topic: DS jobs and its logs physical storage
Replies: 9
Views: 1968

pandeesh wrote:The logs get stores in RT_LOGxxx hashed file.
Not necessarily. It depends on how RTLogging and ORLogging are set.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:35 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Increment Values based on two columns (Looping)
Replies: 3
Views: 1049

You're overwriting Ans each iteration of the loop. You need to accumulate perhaps a delimited list of values in Ans. Use a different variable to test the comparison between Arg2 and Arg1.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:30 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: StringToDate unusual scenario
Replies: 7
Views: 1765

Search for CENTURYPIVOT.
by ray.wurlod
Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:29 am
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: Match Specification using DB2 data
Replies: 2
Views: 1272

Inputs to match specifications MUST be Data Sets. Not sequential files, not DB2 tables, not anything else.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DS jobs and its logs physical storage
Replies: 9
Views: 1968

All this information is stored in database tables, which obviates "looking at them" using operating system utilities. Job names, types, numbers and alias are stored in DS_JOBS while all other design-time objects are stored in DS_JOBOBJECTS - at least this is the case in versions 5.2 and la...
by ray.wurlod
Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: UTF8 Arabic coding problem
Replies: 1
Views: 1253

Try ISO8859-6 for DataStage, which is the setting used for Oracle.
by ray.wurlod
Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:16 pm
Forum:
Topic: Need help in using metadata workbench
Replies: 39
Views: 14459

Welcome aboard. If you have the software, you have the manual. Try Start > All Programs > IBM InfoSphere Information Server > Documentation
by ray.wurlod
Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Handling spaces
Replies: 7
Views: 1605

You do this (what Eric suggested) using "derivation substitution". Select all the columns that you want to change in the output link of the Transformer stage (the ones that are CHAR coming in and VARCHAR going out), right click, choose Derivation Substitution, enter "Trim($1)" as...
by ray.wurlod
Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: DS job execute error..status code 255 ???
Replies: 8
Views: 6913

What else is in logfile?
by ray.wurlod
Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Google+ DataStage Page?
Replies: 4
Views: 1040

What function do you think it will perform that DSXchange does not already perform? Or DSXchange and DeveloperWorks in combination?
by ray.wurlod
Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Expiry date issue in Datastage administrator
Replies: 7
Views: 1983

Have you ever edited the UV.ACCOUNT table?
by ray.wurlod
Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:45 pm
Forum: Enhancement Wish List
Topic: My wishlist in filter stage
Replies: 1
Views: 7317

You can always copy-paste link names.
by ray.wurlod
Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:20 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Running job parallel by passing invocation ID as parameter ?
Replies: 4
Views: 5567

Definitely possible.

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OpenSeq file
Loop While ReadSeq Line from filevariable
   * parse line
   * attach job
   * set parameters checking for errors
   * submit job run request
   * when job finishes check job status
   * detach job
Repeat
CloseSeq filevariable