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by qt_ky
Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Number of transformer stages affects performance ?
Replies: 20
Views: 8572

I'm glad you tested the performance questions yourself.
by qt_ky
Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: odbc connection set up on linux
Replies: 4
Views: 2100

Yes, it is quite normal to create one ODBC entry per database. IBM does have a Federation Server companion product, which is DB2 that allows one to connect to nearly any types of remote databases (SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, others), and other systems. Then you could access everything from Information...
by qt_ky
Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:13 am
Forum: General
Topic: DataStage Designer Connection Issues (81002)
Replies: 7
Views: 2892

Try reaching out to Support. They can probably tell you what got missed when your hosts were renamed.
by qt_ky
Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:45 am
Forum: General
Topic: Password Vault
Replies: 8
Views: 4044

I have only used a personal password manager which encrypts a file of passwords. I have seen certain situations in DataStage, such as when storing password values in parameter sets (type=encrypted, and it's not an environment variable), that require all dependent jobs to be recompiled upon making pa...
by qt_ky
Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:37 am
Forum: Infosphere Master Data Management
Topic: IBM Initiate
Replies: 2
Views: 8316

What I gathered from an IBM session last year is that IBM had purchased the Initiate component, which used to be a separate product made by some other company, and they integrated it as a feature into MDM in order to change the old MDM deterministic matching engine to a new and improved probabilisti...
by qt_ky
Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:51 am
Forum: General
Topic: 11.3 only DB2 repository
Replies: 4
Views: 1528

Ask an IBM sales rep and/or IBM Support about it.
by qt_ky
Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:44 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reading decimal values in schema files
Replies: 9
Views: 4713

Sorry, I don't know the answer. My passport is expired. :?
by qt_ky
Tue Aug 05, 2014 9:24 am
Forum: General
Topic: Decimal format
Replies: 5
Views: 1621

The first argument is total number of digits. The second argument is number of digits after the decimal point.
by qt_ky
Sun Aug 03, 2014 6:56 am
Forum: General
Topic: How to get files from different servers to one server?
Replies: 3
Views: 1183

Commands:
ftp
sftp
rcp

There may be others too.
by qt_ky
Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to get files from different servers to one server?
Replies: 3
Views: 1183

Four for Four...
by qt_ky
Sat Aug 02, 2014 7:18 am
Forum: General
Topic: What are the methods of validations shell scripts ?
Replies: 1
Views: 716

Welcome aboard. The methods may vary according to your files and requirements. Same can normally be done within DataStage itself. Please post what you have tried so far and whether you have a more specific question.
by qt_ky
Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:37 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: XML – stage performance
Replies: 0
Views: 1859

Only ideas at this hour: 1) make sure all tracing and extra logging / debug levels are turned off and 2) try running the job with different degrees of parallelism.
by qt_ky
Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Number of transformer stages affects performance ?
Replies: 20
Views: 8572

Not to confound the matter, but the Transformer stage has been native to DataStage since day 1; just not native to the Orchestrate operators. Confuted?
by qt_ky
Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Adding Multiple script After job Sub Routine
Replies: 8
Views: 1727

got ilk?

:lol:
by qt_ky
Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: ds_udtopen() - Unable to connect to server 39204 - UDT error
Replies: 2
Views: 3686

Please note as per product installation documentation that the minimum AIX maxuproc value must be "1000 or unlimited."