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by chulett
Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: Issue returning data from Routine Activity
Replies: 10
Views: 3646

This is a common question and an exact search for "ParamValue/Limitvalue is not appropriate" will reveal your Field Mark (@FM) issue that is making the value "not appropriate", even for a String parameter.
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: APT_Decimal::operator=: warning
Replies: 3
Views: 4670

What exactly did you search for? An exact search for "non-zero in the leading nybble" found 11 other matches, none of them helped at all?
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Logic in stage variable
Replies: 12
Views: 3055

Show us all of the stage variables in the proper order, please.
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:50 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: disables stages in designer - DS 7.5.1a
Replies: 3
Views: 1557

There's no problem with having multiple .net versions installed, it's quite common actually. Have you checked any of the MS KB articles like this one, for example? The troubleshooting link it includes may help.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/kb00318785.aspx
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:22 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Logic in stage variable
Replies: 12
Views: 3055

First issue - your svPreviousValue stage variable must be the last one listed, or at the very least after any references to it.
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:20 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: disables stages in designer - DS 7.5.1a
Replies: 3
Views: 1557

Does your version of the client software exactly match the server version? I've had issues in the past, only with the XML stages, when they didn't.
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job has finished, status = 96 (Crahsed)
Replies: 4
Views: 1963

Crash errors are not the easiest thing to track down as they're not like an Abort where it knows something is wrong and fails 'gracefully', they're more like the job just fell over dead with no time for any grace to it at all, including resetting the Job Status flag that Director shows you. Since yo...
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: User Id is a required stage property
Replies: 8
Views: 2659

I would normally agree with your last sentence but from what has been posted here, these are: 1) Jobs that have been working for an extended period of time 2) There's been no change to the job or Server Shared Container 3) The issue is sporadic, not consistent Which tends to bring me back to some ki...
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: calling a parallel job many times using parameters
Replies: 10
Views: 7769

Actually, there are plenty of examples of syntax and function usage. While you won't find exact examples of what you're doing, every routine in the repository includes source code. Poke around and double-click on them to see it. That's the way most of us picked this up. You'll also want to dig into ...
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:31 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Loop mechanism inside job.
Replies: 6
Views: 1972

Yes, I'm sure they are referring to the Start Loop and End Loop stages in a Sequence job.
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: calling a parallel job many times using parameters
Replies: 10
Views: 7769

You need to check your BASIC documentation or some of the existing routines (all of which include source code) for the proper syntax. For starters, there's no type declaration for variables as everything is a string and your 'for loop' syntax is incorrect. Did you look at other examples before codin...
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 'Abnormal Termination of Stage' and 0 byte coredump
Replies: 11
Views: 2908

Sorry, no clue on the core dump question. Now, in spite of the fact that you're thinking that resources are not an issue, when someone has a number of jobs that run together and there are occassional job aborts - not the same jobs and not in the same place - and all you need to do to 'fix' the probl...
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Teradata 13B with Datastage 7.5
Replies: 1
Views: 910

That would be something I'd really recommend you run by IBM, see if that is something that is officially supported or if there are any known issues with those versions.
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 'Abnormal Termination of Stage' and 0 byte coredump
Replies: 11
Views: 2908

Possibly. What is controlling your load - a Sequence job? How exactly is it stopping the process when there's a problem - Terminator? The 'automatically handle' compiler option? Either of those could log what you've seeing at the job control / batch / sequence level but unfortunately won't really gi...
by chulett
Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: calling a parallel job many times using parameters
Replies: 10
Views: 7769

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