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by chulett
Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:11 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: SubStr Function
Replies: 5
Views: 2801

There's no "string" function - you use the square brackets with your string field to substring it.
by chulett
Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:09 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: ORACLE_HOME, TNS_ADMIN in dsenv file
Replies: 2
Views: 2868

The plugin import doesn't have the 'fall back' option in it that the client does, so it uses TNS_ADMIN when set whereas the client will check it first and fallback to the standard '$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin' location when it can't find the specific entry there. You only need TNS_ADMIN set when the ...
by chulett
Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:24 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: ORA_01418, Index Issue - Need Help
Replies: 8
Views: 3446

Odd... have you run this problem by your DBA?
by chulett
Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:17 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: how can i install missed plugin in unix
Replies: 3
Views: 1128

Rerun the Server install. It will go into 'Maintenance Mode' and allow you to (amongst other things) do 'Plug-In Maintenance' - install any you missed the first time around.

To me it is more straight-forward than the 'package installer'.
by chulett
Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:15 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Strange problem with crontab scheduling....
Replies: 1
Views: 794

"02 10 * * *" says to run it at 10:02AM every day. Is it not running then? I would suggest redirecting std out & err to a file to see if it is running then and something is going wrong.
by chulett
Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:08 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Stage Routine in job sequencer
Replies: 3
Views: 1644

Searching for a common (non-unique) part of your error - "did not finish OK, return code =" for example - would have revealed many conversations on this topic. :wink:
by chulett
Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:56 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Oracle Enterprise stage issue
Replies: 4
Views: 1243

You need to be the specific one here, otherwise the answer to the "Can I?" question is just "yes". What caused your job to abort? What errors were logged?
by chulett
Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Derivation Expression fed from a Rules table
Replies: 6
Views: 1369

Well, hopefully Ray will be back real soon with his "actually easier in Server jobs" solution. :wink:
by chulett
Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:11 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Date Extraction
Replies: 2
Views: 1435

If you want "07" for the month, don't use "A3" in the OConv date mask. Once you have the date you can use Field to split the pieces out, or just substring them.
by chulett
Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem with NLS
Replies: 5
Views: 1985

Sorry, but what "string" are you talking about and how exactly are you using it "inside the transformer"?
by chulett
Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:08 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem with NLS
Replies: 5
Views: 1985

So... is this working properly and all you are asking is how to get rid of the message or do you still have a conversion problem? :?
by chulett
Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:06 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Delta row
Replies: 3
Views: 1088

What is it? 'Delta' means 'change' in this context.
by chulett
Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:02 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Compilation Error - Cannot get exclusive access to job
Replies: 4
Views: 1714

I think this has been posted before - if the MJC throws the error but you can compile them individually just fine, then it's a bug.
by chulett
Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:59 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: days_since_from_date
Replies: 2
Views: 2294

Post samples of your date data and the actual derivation you are using.