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by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Unable to install FixPack1 for IIS 8.1
Replies: 6
Views: 4648

Perhaps Sriram could email it to you.

I did have this issue a couple of years back, but am no longer at that particular customer site. Nor can I recall where I found version 176 of the Update Installer.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:27 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: SCD Stage
Replies: 9
Views: 1678

Is your database local or remote to the DataStage engine? If it's remote then a state file, which perforce must be local, will definitely perform better.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: datastage dw
Replies: 4
Views: 1155

At IOD 2009 someone declared that there's no such thing as best practices. The best you can hope for is "least worst practices". What's good at one site may not be appropriate at a different site. That's one of the nice things about the flexibility of DataStage - it can accommodate these d...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: 18MTB is a big number
Replies: 2
Views: 855

That's 2**64-1. Maxing out on a diet of 64-bit addresses!
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: SPACES BETWEEN CHARACTERS WHILE READING SEQUENTIAL STAGE
Replies: 5
Views: 1634

And do the spaces exist when you use TextPad?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:21 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to remove duplicates using LastRowInGroup?
Replies: 4
Views: 1667

If you're keeping a count of the records in the group you can identify that the last record in the group is a duplicate of the first (and every other), but that does not give you the capacity to remove the duplicate(s). Why not use a Remove Duplicates stage?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Folder stage equivalent Stage
Replies: 11
Views: 2993

What's wrong with using a Folder stage in version 8.x?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: determining &PH& current type
Replies: 18
Views: 5571

RESIZE to Type 19 is always recommended for &PH&. Indeed, this is a good thing to do immedicately a project is created - in this case it is sufficient to remove the .Type1 file. By default &PH& is a Type 1. which means that file names longer than 41 characters are prohibited, and fil...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Unable to connect datastage server
Replies: 2
Views: 2611

Check (that) the credential mapped user name and password are correctly configured.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to find table is referenced in how many jobs
Replies: 5
Views: 1525

DS_JOBOBJECTS.NAME contains the name of the Stage or Link (or other object), not the name of the table.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:39 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: SPACES BETWEEN CHARACTERS WHILE READING SEQUENTIAL STAGE
Replies: 5
Views: 1634

Try reading the file with something else, like WordPad.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tables in UV database
Replies: 6
Views: 1646

File and Q-pointer.

Details in UniVerse manuals.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:37 pm
Forum: Site/Forum
Topic: iphone app for dsxchange
Replies: 8
Views: 4700

Way too much content.