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by roy
Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:55 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Stored Procedure Stage
Replies: 2
Views: 1474

Hi, A search in this forum would have found this answer!!! As far a I remember, SP Stage currently works with Oracle only, should work with other DB vendors in the future, concidering the unfolding events DB2 should be the next supported DB . do read the docs on that stage (found on the install CD)....
by roy
Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:45 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: how are updates in datastage performance
Replies: 12
Views: 3846

Hi, IMHO, Ken's postings here are FAQ worthy. Regarding the bulk loaders I think a search will find previous topic on that and conclude that using the command line utility supplied with the DB client software is prefered over using the bulk loader stage (the stage is normally used to generate the da...
by roy
Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Timestamp substraction
Replies: 9
Views: 1946

Hi,
Except searching for the answer in this forum....
you can use Iconv(...) to get the time to a DS internal representation subtract the time and use Oconv(...) to turn it back to timestamp format.
use the DS help on the mentioned routines.
IHTH,
by roy
Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:47 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Slowly changing dimensions
Replies: 1
Views: 667

Hi,
search in the forum.
I belive in a recent post Ray gave a link also to 1 of Ken's posts in this matter.
Please do search befor posting :)
by roy
Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:43 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Co-existence of multiple versions of server/client
Replies: 6
Views: 2139

Hi,
And the good thing is that from 7.5 the client switcher is actually a supported utility :).
still only one version can be active at any givven time for the reasons ArndW mentioned.
by roy
Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:40 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Running/Restartable job hanging
Replies: 2
Views: 1108

Hi,
Just to add on the answer givven:
this option is available via director only if your project properties(set via DS Administrator) have the allow job administration in director checkbox marked.
this will also cause the cleanup resources option to be available.
IHTH,
by roy
Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:35 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Error: ds_ipcgetnext - timeout waiting for mutex
Replies: 2
Views: 1974

Hi, In a simple description: when you use IPC stage your actually seperating a process into 2 seperate processes that comunicate via a memory buffer, one is pushing data into the buffer and the other pulls the data out of the buffer as it's input. the thing is that the processes are independant, the...
by roy
Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:14 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Hash File lookup
Replies: 3
Views: 1286

Hi, you can use also 1 of theese: 1. perform a lookup directly ti a DB stage and use a user defined sql implementing a between clause in your where part. 2. insert your values to a table, then use a sql join to unload a hash file with the original column from your source data as the key and the data...
by roy
Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:37 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Can i use same hash file 3 jobs running parallel
Replies: 3
Views: 943

Hi,
How about using the properties tab of the job and check the: enable hashed file chache sharing.
this should load the file to memory once instead of multiple times/
IHTH,
by roy
Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:36 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Read from hashtable
Replies: 5
Views: 1537

Thanks for the correction ArndW :)
Kinda hard testing and rechecking everything, I thought I remembered correctly but I guess I mixed something up there :oops:
by roy
Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:27 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job complied but unable to run
Replies: 7
Views: 1843

Hi,
as ArndW said ODD !
Just to be sure check that you didn't run it in 1 project and looked in the other's log entries?!
by roy
Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:23 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Read from hashtable
Replies: 5
Views: 1537

Hi, when you readnext by key you get the reminder of the row returned without hte key value. you might also want to go over openpath and related commands in your BASIC.pdf file in the docs directory under your installation directory. you can also search this forum, there are previous posts for handl...
by roy
Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:16 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: JCL and Parameter Issue
Replies: 2
Views: 846

Hi, Job Controll meaning Basic?! in basic a parameter named SERVERNAME would be refered to as that exact name with no # signs around it, just as you'll notice it apears when you set a parameter value of a job activity in a sequence job that is derived from a parameter of the sequence job. so in GUI ...
by roy
Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:52 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Here's something to not do.
Replies: 8
Views: 2278

Hi,
There will always be a case where:
You can't guard against your guardian,
that is why you make backups!

IHTH,
by roy
Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:07 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Fixed Width Files and NLS
Replies: 6
Views: 2260

Hi, your NLS should be set to an apropriate value not UTF8 by default. there is also the off-chance you have a combination of NLS in different columns. first you need to identify which NLS you need and wethere it is consistant or a per clumn defined. in case you don't have an existing NLS that suppo...