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by ArndW
Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:42 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to read a text file of 5GB
Replies: 24
Views: 7927

CFF is the Complex-flat-file stage. The Sequential stage is one of the fastest possible means of reading a file. Is the file fixed length or variable length?
by ArndW
Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:29 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to read a text file of 5GB
Replies: 24
Views: 7927

Sequential file stage for one. CFF as well.
by ArndW
Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:19 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to read a text file of 5GB
Replies: 24
Views: 7927

Why can't you read a file of over 5Gb in DataStage?
by ArndW
Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:53 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: APT_CombinedOperatorController,1: Null string argument.
Replies: 15
Views: 22610

If you are still getting the warning after having removed the statement then I would suggest you look elsewhere for the cause.
by ArndW
Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:45 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: ODBC error
Replies: 18
Views: 5085

There are days, yesterday and today, where I'd love to go back and redact/bowlderize/modify or just plain delete my posts... Craig - righto, I should have caught that Windows reference at the beginning of the thread. Devesh - can you also confirm that you executed your SQL on the Server and not on y...
by ArndW
Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:44 am
Forum: General
Topic: How to move DataStage ETL to an other server
Replies: 4
Views: 3472

There are only a few files required for a complete move of a DataStage project from one machine to another. The contents of the DataStage jobs (or programs, to use another term) can be backed up into one (potentially rather large) file. This file can then be imported on another system, even another ...
by ArndW
Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:59 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Configuration File
Replies: 9
Views: 3220

We computer types actually think that there are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't :roll:
by ArndW
Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: ODBC error
Replies: 18
Views: 5085

And are the Oracle environment variables activated in the "dsenv" script in $DSHOME?
by ArndW
Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: LoadRunStats.AutoMeter has never been run
Replies: 5
Views: 1671

Are you certain that the message is at the DSAttachJob()? Try a DSLogWarn() before and after to make certain - I've never seen that message triggered from that call.
by ArndW
Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:10 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Check Date value
Replies: 8
Views: 1794

What format and data type is your incoming date?
by ArndW
Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:21 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: character separator
Replies: 5
Views: 1894

No options, since the quote character is used to shift in and shift out of a column; only a double occurrence of the quote character tells the parser that it is part of the data and not a control character.
by ArndW
Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:15 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Day in Date
Replies: 18
Views: 3831

QualityStageParallel Job Developer Guide page 31 as marked at the bottom of the actual page, page 43/637 according to the PDF counter on the top. Alternately search the document for "%E".
by ArndW
Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:13 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Checking for Integer Datatype
Replies: 8
Views: 2701

Try outputting your data to a peek stage or file, make one column have "Input" as a value and the other "IsValid("Int32",Input)" and find an example of a value that is not as you expect.
by ArndW
Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:12 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: character separator
Replies: 5
Views: 1894

I think your problem is illustrated by the field
"ghfhdd"gkjdgfd"
In order to be parsed correctly, it would need to be formatted as
"ghfhdd""gkjdgfd"
by ArndW
Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:50 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Checking for Integer Datatype
Replies: 8
Views: 2701

Variables and Column names are case sensitive. "Input" is not the same as "input".