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by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:04 am
Forum: General
Topic: Popup windows hidden
Replies: 2
Views: 5163

This is usually a registry issue where there are invalid values for the window positions. Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the client? You may need to use regedit to remove any DataStage remnants before the reinstall. Another thought is to simply delete the Designer branch from the regis...
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:58 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job without source stage
Replies: 3
Views: 1672

Without 'a source' your constraint controls how many records it outputs.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:25 am
Forum: General
Topic: Restartability mechanisms
Replies: 31
Views: 12071

pandeesh wrote:Can you explain this little more?
Plenty of information out there. For instance here.
pandeesh also wrote:Is there any way to tweak the script which is generated using run model?
Don't see why not.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:58 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Conversion from string to decimal
Replies: 17
Views: 10549

Are you trimming after the conversion?
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:56 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Unable to Import jobs in datastage 7.5.1.A
Replies: 3
Views: 2772

Not unless you can tell us the specifics of the issue you are facing.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:54 am
Forum: General
Topic: Restartability mechanisms
Replies: 31
Views: 12071

Is there any way to overcome this? Be more selective in your resetting. Make it conditional on the job type and if in a 'Restartable' status. But if we use our own script ,is it possible to read the parameters from the ini file?(Without giving all the parameters in the script itself?) All things ar...
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Conversion from string to decimal
Replies: 17
Views: 10549

As already noted, a string target combined with the DecimalToString() function.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:28 am
Forum: General
Topic: Restartability mechanisms
Replies: 31
Views: 12071

They sound fairly... equivalent.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:22 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Need help with Change Capture stage
Replies: 4
Views: 1581

But your lookup is against an Oracle table and that's where your problem lies according to the errors.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Need help with Change Capture stage
Replies: 4
Views: 1581

An exact search for "getColDesc failed" returned 19 other matches, perhaps some of them can help.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:25 am
Forum: General
Topic: multiple job compiling
Replies: 8
Views: 2305

We can't know either but the reason would have been in the report.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: Restartability mechanisms
Replies: 31
Views: 12071

Sure... in other words, nothing really at the individual job level, which is specifically what I was wondering. You have coded up your own version of the 'Checkpointing' mechanism available in Sequence jobs, it would seem.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: DSexport location
Replies: 1
Views: 1480

Look in the 'bin' directory under there. Failing that, a 'find' command should turn it up.
by chulett
Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:13 am
Forum: General
Topic: Restartability mechanisms
Replies: 31
Views: 12071

pandeesh wrote:if it finds the last job is aborted , it llreset and continue form there. Or if the last run is fine. it ll start the jobs from beginning.
I'm curious what the difference is between the two other than the Reset... between 'from there' and 'from beginning'.
by chulett
Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Migration projects
Replies: 10
Views: 2407

I was remiss in not mentioning that the 'upgrade in place' option for major releases was something unique to the pre-8.x world. You could go from (as one example) 6.something to 7.something, one over the top of the other quite easily, something I've done many times over the years. As others have men...