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These routines always return 1, which is treated by the calling sequence as a Failure. Create otherwise identical sequences that set Ans = 0 instead of 1.

I will be there. Haven't missed one yet!

By "reboot the server" do you mean restart the machine, or only the DataStage services, or some other combination?

Look at the job log for the old server and verify the value of APT_STRING_PADCHAR (both in the environment variables and, just in case, in the job parameters).

The documentation is produced with the base release. It is quite possible that one or more of the fix packs you have applied has included changes to dsapi.h.

The DataStage manuals specifically alert you to the fact that "&" and "#" characters require special handling.

This is a "my car won't start" class of question. We need more information. Are there any other warnings or errors in the job log?

Customize in what way? It's an HTML document, so you should be able to post-process it any way you like.

When you're new to anything it's worth while spending some time with the manual. I do, Stuart does. His answer is apposite.

In most cases I suspect it's because people know the scripting way and can't be bothered to learn the DataStage way. In most cases, if not all, there IS a DataStage way. For example, permissions of a file can be had using the STATUS statement in DataStage BASIC. And, yes, you can write in Java, and ...

Actually it is workable; the result is called a "distributed hashed file", but requires a certain amount of setting up and configuration (for example an algorithm to determine in which portion each key resides) which I doubt that your colleagues understand or even know about. What your dev...

Change APT_STRING_PADCHAR.

Trying to update Information Server version 8.1 from FP1 to FP2 on Solaris.
Process fails (after about two hours) with "unable to unlock Template directory".
Has anyone ever seen/solved this?

http://www.dsxchange.net/2011IISGridSolution.html

Not sure when the recording will be available, but the Powerpoint deck is there.

No, it's just "how it works", and it's different from how server jobs work (there the job executes in a single process).