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by duh_sk8erboi
Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:10 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Surrogate Key Assignment
Replies: 16
Views: 24896

Thanks a ton craig :D i did go through at the routine from DS manager, but never bothered to know the differance between the next value and concurrent. Now i do and would go through the steps you suggested, including reading up on the previous posts. My next issue was trying to generate another valu...
by duh_sk8erboi
Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Surrogate Key Assignment
Replies: 16
Views: 24896

Re: Surrogate Key Assignment

Alrite !!! :D thanks guys. I was able to generate surrogate key values using the DS transform function 'KeyMgtNextValue'. for the unique sequence name, after a little experimenting, i was able to use a column name that was the key column and also use a '0' and a '1' in place of the '%sequencename%' ...
by duh_sk8erboi
Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Surrogate Key Assignment
Replies: 16
Views: 24896

wow... so fast!! thanks saik. ok, so i use that DS function, but how i make it generate a number? do i have to write additional code for this function to make it generate the sgt key?? please advice

Thanks in Advance
by duh_sk8erboi
Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Surrogate Key Assignment
Replies: 16
Views: 24896

Surrogate Key Assignment

Hello to all DS gurus I'm new to DS & ETL development, but i'm quickly catching up & learning so many wonderful things about DS. I have come across a new challange, surrogate key assignment. how can one generate a new surrogate key for a column which is the key column in a transformer, which...