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by ArndW
Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:36 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Wierd Error -- Phantom 29287
Replies: 7
Views: 2050

Didn't we go through a similar performance thread on this file recently? If you do an ANALYZE.FILE on this file (you might need to use SETFILE to set up a VOC pointer to the file) what is the modulo after filling up the file - is it close to your 1,140,457 minimum? What percentage fill do you have? ...
by ArndW
Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:30 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Server Edition to Enterprise question...
Replies: 8
Views: 1953

Just migrating from Server Edition to the Parallel EE edition doesn't mean much, since EE contains the server product and the old jobs will continue to run without changes. Converting the existing jobs is an involved and complex matter. There will be numerous issues during your conversion process an...
by ArndW
Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:33 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Job Monitor status
Replies: 7
Views: 1263

Cool - I didn't know it would give that information for a running job! thanks.
by ArndW
Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:27 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Wierd Error -- Phantom 29287
Replies: 7
Views: 2050

As Craig has stated, the file is corrupted and needs to be repaired or, failing that, cleared out. The blink errors denote internal corruption. Sometimes files with blink errors in some groups allow adding data into other groups, so the error won't always manifest itself on writes. Quickest fix is a...
by ArndW
Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Name for a software company.
Replies: 14
Views: 5049

I've been through a couple of naming phases and it is really quite difficult to do correctly. For software companies a web presence is usually essential, so making sure of getting a domain name that is practicable is high on the priority list If the company is to be international you will need to ch...
by ArndW
Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:11 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Is there a problem with just using default APT_CONFIG file??
Replies: 12
Views: 4095

One thing I always stress when it comes to PX configuration files is that you should always develop and test jobs with at least a 2-node configuration file. Any job that runs correctly on a 2-node configuration will scale to n-nodes or even a 1-node configuration. If you use a 1-node configuration f...
by ArndW
Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:04 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Errors in Transformer stage Routines.
Replies: 3
Views: 1555

Kavuri,

it seems that you aren't pointing to your new binary file,
/usr/vacpp/bin/xlC_r: 1501-228 input file /home/bhi/.o not found
. Can you check your routine definition in the Manager to make sure it is filled in correctly?
by ArndW
Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:46 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Create Table Definition from Excel file
Replies: 3
Views: 1068

You can read .xls files via a correctly defined system DSN ODBC data source.
by ArndW
Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:44 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Job Monitor status
Replies: 7
Views: 1263

No, the monitor is a windows client program. There is no command-line or UNIX version of the monitor.
by ArndW
Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:05 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Job Monitor status
Replies: 7
Views: 1263

Try right-mouse-clicking on the job in the director to start the monitor.
by ArndW
Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:40 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Unlinking error while run a Dos batch file from Datastage
Replies: 4
Views: 1224

...rm -r * will only work on Windows if you have MKS toolkit or similar UNIX emulation installed and active. Also, it needs to be on one line separated by semicolon and doing an rm -r command after changing directories but not making sure you are in the right one is asking to find out if your last ...
by ArndW
Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Problem to write a file
Replies: 2
Views: 1066

1.Put in a

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CALL DSLogInfo('Path is "':path:'".','')
to see what value you are getting for the path.
2. Add an error and else code branch to your OPENSEQ command.
by ArndW
Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: IBM U2 University
Replies: 15
Views: 5316

In my opinion it is cheaper and easier to bribe the webmaster to `correct' the post counts to more accurately reflect the reality I would prefer to see :roll:
by ArndW
Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: IBM U2 University
Replies: 15
Views: 5316

They don't have a football team but we all know that Ray is just going so that he can ogle the co-eds ;) I'm sure that the crowd at a convention like this will be chock-full of surferettes-turned-Pick-Programmers!
by ArndW
Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DSJob command lines and Information server
Replies: 1
Views: 574

Yes, the command line interface is forward compatible.