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by ArndW
Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: $APT_CONFIG_FILE value in individual job
Replies: 5
Views: 1172

The explicit hard-coded value for APT_CONFIG will take precedence and that job will run with that config file.
by ArndW
Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:33 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: usage of Oracle stage
Replies: 2
Views: 651

The instance name tab isn't initially visible, in the Oracle stage Input Properties tab click on "Connection" in the left pane and you will see "Remote Server" on the right drop down list.
by ArndW
Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:31 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to use Call DSExecute
Replies: 10
Views: 3449

That doesn't look quite right and didn't help much, please try CALL DSLogWarn('Command "':DB2Cmd1:'" returned status ':ErrCode:' and screen output "':ScreenOutput:'".','') My first guess is that DB2CMD is not in the path for your shell; but the output of the debugging sta...
by ArndW
Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:26 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: StringToDecimal
Replies: 7
Views: 2816

nkreddy_3 - are you also working on the same file and problem as the original poster? If not then we should wait for the original poster to reply if his/her file has empty or zero values.
by ArndW
Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:24 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Reg:String to Decimal Conversion
Replies: 5
Views: 1462

nkreddy_3 - You see what effect stating that your problem needs the attention of DSXchange "ASAP" has? It means that many people who might otherwise have responded haven't done so. DSXchange is an all-volunteer site and in order to get immediate and professional attention you would need to pay far m...
by ArndW
Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:09 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: job aborted because of heap size
Replies: 8
Views: 3171

rubik - the original error posted was "The current soft limit on the data segment (heap) size is less than the hard limit, consider increasing the heap size limit"; so how can you be getting the same error message after setting it to unlimited? Or is this another error that might best be covered in ...
by ArndW
Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:03 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Regular Expressions
Replies: 3
Views: 888

The syntax in DataStage is quite different from UNIX regular expressions. The FMT() function can cover much of what is normally needed. The DataStageBASIC Reference Guide guide discusses both the FMT() function as well as the conversion options with OCONV/ICONV
by ArndW
Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:58 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Delimited values in Startloop Activity
Replies: 7
Views: 2720

I would call up ExecSH in the sequence to display the file, then parse the return string into the correct format in a variable and then use that as the delimited list.
by ArndW
Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: dsjob (status code)
Replies: 21
Views: 11245

Mystuff - what was wrong with my suggestion? It worked on my system.
by ArndW
Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:36 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Round to 2 decimal places For Double (53)
Replies: 9
Views: 2463

You could round mathematically, i.e. INT(In.DBLCol*100)/100 or use an interim Decimal data type with 2 decimal places.
by ArndW
Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Round to 2 decimal places For Double (53)
Replies: 9
Views: 2463

Good on you, I am certain that you can do this in DataStage.

But if you want help in doing this, you need explain exactly what it is you are asking - what stage, converting from what type to what type?
by ArndW
Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:57 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: dsjob (status code)
Replies: 21
Views: 11245

How about just redirecting everything, try

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id=`dsjob -lognewest $Project $Job 2>&1 | cut -d"=" -f2`
by ArndW
Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:43 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Regarding the performance of datastage and SQL Loader
Replies: 12
Views: 5934

Craig - I just had to recheck and saw that I missed your post. I think that yourself, Ray and I concur that "it depends". This is a polite way of saying that any answer to this question depends upon the context and the way it was posed leads to ambiguous answers.
by ArndW
Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:38 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: 2 consecutive Modify Stages
Replies: 13
Views: 3911

I wonder if you get an error if you set APT_DISABLE_COMBINATION to true; perhaps these two modify stages are being optimized to just one at runtime.
by ArndW
Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:28 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Initializing DOUBLE column to zero giving error
Replies: 8
Views: 1409

Do a derivation of

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StringToDecimal('0','allow_zero')