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They covered up the fact that the design serks and they went ahead and approved it.

successfull project" is concidered as one that met the objectives defined by the "customer" Most of the failures I have seen had nothing defined, a customer which changed their mind everytime they turned around. There are customers which are never satisfied. How can you meet expectations or objecti...

My point is this. I would like more people to examine their work outside of what you were told to do. Was it a success or was it a failure? In your eyes was it a success. In the end users eyes was it a success. If you ask your boss then they always say it was a success. If you ask management then yo...

Your code is correct. Just duplicate the InvocationId in the parameter named JOBINVOCATIONID. I would chose a new name.

Was this a failure, Ray because it was late? Did they use the results? Were they happy with whatever they delivered when it was finally delivered?

I have seen source-to-target documents once before I got on site. That was by far the best implementation too.

I know a customer which 3 developers for 18 months to develop 200 production jobs. That is 3*18*20=1080 man days. Is that excessive? The users have no reports which can be validated against any source system. There are lots of meetings trying to figure out if the data warehouse is accurate. The ETL ...

Too short an answer again. Thanks Ray man. Just lazy today.

I was wondering if anyone has been on or seen a data warehouse fail. 1. How do you measure failure? 2. What is your definition of failed? 3. Why did it fail? 4. How did it get fixed? 5. How would you of fixed it? 6. I guess all of us have experienced some messed up solutions but is that a failure? 7...

JOBINVOCATIONID is also a parameter name.

Best sage advice of all

Now you know all my tricks. No private emails please!!!

Here is my .profile: #!/bin/ksh # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Created by Kim Duke # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- set -o vi DSHOME=`cat /.dshome` export DSHOME export PATH=$PATH:$DSHOME/bin:$HOME/scripts export PS1...

Here is my backup script to backup critical files. KimBackup.ksh #!/bin/ksh set -x cd mkdir $HOME/SavedFiles cp .profile SavedFiles DSHOME=`cat /.dshome` cd $DSHOME sudo cp .[a-z]* $HOME/SavedFiles cp dsenv* $HOME/SavedFiles cp uvodbc* $HOME/SavedFiles cp uvconfig* $HOME/SavedFiles cd ../Projects fi...

To fix the UV account or the DSEngine directory if you do not know what the UV account is then here is the script FixUVAccount.ksh:

The roles are controlled by 3 files in UNIX: -rwxr--r-- 1 dsadm dstage 7 Mar 29 16:34 .developer.adm -rwxr--r-- 1 dsadm dstage 0 Feb 9 13:24 .operator.adm -rwxr--r-- 1 dsadm dstage 0 Mar 29 16:39 .prodmgr.adm Notice there are no operator groups and prodmgr is also 0 bytes long. The .developer.adm fi...