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by ArndW
Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:44 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: char(10) format
Replies: 7
Views: 1962

NewCol is derived as

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EReplace(",":DSLink3.f2,",",Char(10):DSLink3.f1:"|")
and no stage variables. This assumes that for line 1 f1 is "a" and f2 is "aa,bb,cc".
by ArndW
Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:38 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Copying Datasets
Replies: 1
Views: 679

The orchadmin cp command will truncate the target dataset and will not accept wildcards. You could do this concatenation from a DS job with the target DataSet set so that it appends records and doesn't truncate.
by ArndW
Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:25 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Memory leaks on Linux
Replies: 4
Views: 1388

Does the "lost" memory stay gone if you bring down the DataStage server engine?
by ArndW
Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:21 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: char(10) format
Replies: 7
Views: 1962

Does your input file have 2 columns defined with a delimiter of "|"? If so, how do you get DSLink3.f3?
by ArndW
Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:11 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error in Execute Command Activity
Replies: 4
Views: 2143

try not to "cd" to a shell script, but to the directory where the shell script is located, i.e. "cd /home/dsadm/abc"
by ArndW
Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:44 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Job Parameter Copy
Replies: 2
Views: 800

Check out Parameter Navigator by Kim Duke; this might help you.
As of Version 8 you have Parameter Sets, which greatly help this kind of work.
by ArndW
Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:36 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: reading decimal values from oracle E STAGE
Replies: 1
Views: 640

Venkat - this particular question has been asked and answered to many times in the past. Please use the "search" function to find the responses.
by ArndW
Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:30 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Performance for multiple Lookups
Replies: 4
Views: 1108

Could you post both the error message you get and your system virtual memory setting?
by ArndW
Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:28 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: reading of the fixed width file with Header and tail
Replies: 6
Views: 1534

Venkat - I am certain I responded to this query with a post yesterday, but I cannot see (or is this a duplicate thread?). Ah, yes - a duplicate identical question to this thread with a different userid
by ArndW
Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:28 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Discrepancy in the execution of the unix comnmand
Replies: 7
Views: 2135

Could you post an explanation of where and how you are doing this from DataStage?
by ArndW
Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:25 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: DELTE PROJECT PROBLEM
Replies: 4
Views: 1251

Is this the same site as this question?
by ArndW
Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:22 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Date to Day/Week
Replies: 2
Views: 972

xyz_chatter - You can use the ICONV/OCONV functions to convert from display to internal format and vice-versa. Convert to internal format using ICONV(In.DateStringCol,'D4/MDY'), the you can get the day of week using format 'DWA' or 'DWB' to get the day name and 'DJ' to get the julian day number in t...
by ArndW
Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:38 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reading fixed width files
Replies: 2
Views: 901

I can't recall if the PX sequential stage has a "header" option, but if not you could use a filter of "sed '1,1d'" to remove the header line and then read the rest as fixed width.
by ArndW
Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:11 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: storing apostrophe(')
Replies: 2
Views: 1362

Output 2 new columns to test - Len(In.Col) and Len(Trim(In.Col)). Both should be equal and 9 for "M'Sateesh"
by ArndW
Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:10 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Connectivity to Access DB using Datastage (unix)
Replies: 1
Views: 616

This is a samilar issue as in your thread here. You need to make ODBC sources visible on a Windows machine from UNIX.