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by Shree0410
Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: "Too many columns in record" - How to resolve this
Replies: 11
Views: 11977

"Too many columns in record" - How to resolve this

hi guys:
I have the fiollwoing error when I try to read a file in datastage.

read_delimited() - row 1, too many columns in record

I checked the file layout on the Unix box and it exactly matches the column layout of the Datastage job.

Please advise if this could be for a diff reason.
by Shree0410
Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to check if a column is blank
Replies: 3
Views: 951

Thanks for the help, it worked.
by Shree0410
Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to check if a column is blank
Replies: 3
Views: 951

How to check if a column is blank

Hi guys, I have a column 'DOC1' which is 10 bytes CHAR. I have to populate 'A' if this column is blank. I am using the logic If (IsNull(DOC1) Or DOC1=" ") Then DOC1 = A Else DOC1. Somehow, this logic is not catching the blanks on the DOC1, Is there a way to check for the SPACES on this fie...
by Shree0410
Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:15 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Tab Delimiter
Replies: 3
Views: 1278

Tab Delimiter

hi,

The target system need DataStage to provide a file with the columns delimited by tab, what is the equivalent charater for tab?

Thanks
by Shree0410
Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: DataStage TX
Replies: 1
Views: 443

DataStage TX

Hi,

Can anyone help me find documentation on DataStage TX.

Thanks
by Shree0410
Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:59 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: How to save the 'Help Topics' as a readable file
Replies: 3
Views: 700

How to save the 'Help Topics' as a readable file

Hi guys, Can you help me how to save the 'Help Topics' as a readable file. To be more specific, the "Help Topics" on the Help menu which has all the helpful information about DataStage. Can this be saved as a file and can be read anytime we want even though we do not have DataStage on the ...
by Shree0410
Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:45 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Append records to a hash file
Replies: 9
Views: 2419

I unchecked both the options and I get a "Write caching disabled" warnings and the job aborted.
by Shree0410
Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:21 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Append records to a hash file
Replies: 9
Views: 2419

Ok, specific. I have Job1 to create and write records to HashFile1. My properties here are checked the "Create File" and checked the ""Delete file before create" in the Options. In my Job2, I want to add new records to the same file HashFile2. On the General tab, which prope...
by Shree0410
Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:07 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Append records to a hash file
Replies: 9
Views: 2419

Append records to a hash file

How do I append records to the existing hash file.
by Shree0410
Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:24 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Delete Hash file
Replies: 3
Views: 1796

Delete Hash file

Hi guys,

How to delete a hash file from a file directory.
by Shree0410
Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:53 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: To Check NULL
Replies: 7
Views: 1517

guys, I am so sorry to post simple ones like this, I have used this many times before and looks like I am getting too dependent on this site at times, just the moment I see a red on the screen, I come here and post it rather than 't h i n k' a while..
by Shree0410
Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:27 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: To Check NULL
Replies: 7
Views: 1517

my requirement is to populate 0000's if the filed is null
I tried If IsNull(myfield) Then 0000, the expression is in red, some syntax error?
by Shree0410
Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:17 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: To Check NULL
Replies: 7
Views: 1517

To Check NULL

How to check if a Filed is null, Is there a IsNull function?
by Shree0410
Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:06 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Date formatting
Replies: 11
Views: 10490

i don't want to convert the format, i just want to remove '/''s from the date..