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by chulett
Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:14 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Null conversion warning
Replies: 1
Views: 860

Handle the nulls properly. An exact search for "Converting a nullable source to a non-nullable result" turned up 37 conversations on the subject.
by chulett
Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: DS.REINDEX ALL from command line.
Replies: 4
Views: 6452

Arnd - what does the "-C" buy you?
by chulett
Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: DS.REINDEX ALL from command line.
Replies: 4
Views: 6452

"Maintenance issues"? :?

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by chulett
Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:24 am
Forum: General
Topic: Renaming a job in dsx file
Replies: 2
Views: 1179

As long as what you are renaming it to does not already exist, unless you are fine with one overwritting the other.
by chulett
Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:04 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Cannot get exclusive access to executable file
Replies: 4
Views: 2780

The message "'cannot get exclusive access to executable file" usually means you are trying to compile a running job or the job is being monitored. Not sure about the "resource locator" one, have you tried searching the forums for that phrase?
by chulett
Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Giving permission to unix users
Replies: 1
Views: 861

Search is your friend! Try an Exact Search for "Failed to enumerate Local groups" and see if anything there helps. Could be a couple of different reasons.
by chulett
Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:20 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Warning on insert when no data goes in
Replies: 16
Views: 3508

Excellent! Glad we were able to bring this to a successful conclusion. :D
by chulett
Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:00 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Warning on insert when no data goes in
Replies: 16
Views: 3508

My point is, the INSERT statement should never be in the log as the constraint is never satisfied for any row. This is baffling! This is simply not true. The SQL for every link is logged when the stage is initialized / opened regardless if it ever fires or not. Let it baffle you no longer, my son. ...
by chulett
Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:33 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Shift one byte to right
Replies: 6
Views: 1319

Or if the length of the target is variable:

Code: Select all

CalculatedValue : Left(InLink.Z, Len(InLink.Z) - 1)
by chulett
Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Shift one byte to right
Replies: 6
Views: 1319

And the 'calculated value' will always be a single digit?
by chulett
Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:18 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Client connect issue
Replies: 2
Views: 1282

Ah... figured it would be something like that, unless 8.x totally changed the game there. Those values are stored in the client PC's registry, so what you did obviously worked but I wonder if you could have just edited the values in question to remove the question marks? Please mark your post as Res...
by chulett
Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:14 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: CSV column to different columns
Replies: 14
Views: 3576

Sure, you can use 'dsjob' to dump job names to a file and then drive from that file. Or you could actually read DS_JOBS directly with a Hashed File or Universe stage in a Server job to drive this or to populate the file.
by chulett
Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:51 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: CSV column to different columns
Replies: 14
Views: 3576

That Convert() function is turning the field delimiters inside the string to "Value Marks", magical goodies that make a field "multi-valued" and are key to the normalization that can be done.
by chulett
Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:21 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: CSV column to different columns
Replies: 14
Views: 3576

If you know the max - create that many additional fields in a Transformer, populate with Field(), pivot and then filter out the null results.
by chulett
Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:03 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error in restarting the DS Engine
Replies: 22
Views: 7295

:wink: Yours we know. I was asking neeraj.