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by balajimadhav
Fri Jul 08, 2016 6:17 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: User defined sql - performance
Replies: 1
Views: 2058

User defined sql - performance

Need a help to understand the performance of user defined queries against the job design for the same logic. I have two oracle tables one with 400K records and other with 200K records and i join these two tables on a key (hash partitioned) and the resulting records out of join is moved to a oracle c...
by balajimadhav
Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:35 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Null Handling for Change capture
Replies: 4
Views: 5269

I tried that option as well now and i see when two null records (with null value of varchar and numeric fields) are compared against its corresponding before result using change capture , the result is a copy record (without any explicit null handling in transformer). I have come across few topics i...
by balajimadhav
Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:25 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Null Handling for Change capture
Replies: 4
Views: 5269

Null Handling for Change capture

Hi, I would like to know how the null columns has been handled while comparing in a change capture stage. I did a search on related topics which I couldn't get the information I was looking for and hence creating a new topic. I understand that from DataStage version 8.5 explicit handling eg: NullToV...
by balajimadhav
Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:44 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: What is the best practice for joining Nullable keys
Replies: 3
Views: 3545

Thanks for clarifying. As i understand in case if null values not in scope for my join then the null to not null conversion is not required. Also how does DS handles when two nullable keys with data being NULL when joined? i observed that it joins and produces the result as NULL. shouldn't it drop t...
by balajimadhav
Tue Jul 22, 2014 3:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: What is the best practice for joining Nullable keys
Replies: 3
Views: 3545

What is the best practice for joining Nullable keys

Hello, I have a job design where source and target are oracle tables. There are two additional tables to be joined with the source. Job design is source ->join1->join2->copy->target. In both the joins the key column identified is nullable and the existing sample records has no null values in the dat...
by balajimadhav
Thu Dec 27, 2012 1:41 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Link count for copy stage
Replies: 1
Views: 1368

Link count for copy stage

Hi, i have a job which loads from a source dataset to a target dataset ( + alookup before loading to target) with some transformation rules involved which is handled through a transformer. There is a reject link configured for a lookup failure. The reject link has the following stages: copy stage an...
by balajimadhav
Fri May 13, 2011 12:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Export of parameter values from a parameter set
Replies: 0
Views: 1706

Export of parameter values from a parameter set

I would like to extract the parameters defined in a parameter set. Since i have frequently changing values in the parameter set i would like to take an extract of the parameter values for validation purpose before proceeding to make any changes in it. Values can be extracted in the exported dsx of t...
by balajimadhav
Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:33 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Reg Oracle sessions
Replies: 1
Views: 1284

Reg Oracle sessions

Hi, I am parameterizing a oracle view and in my job i should execute a package in before sql and the value returned will be passed to the view which is called in the sql tab as a column generated query. The package execution and the view should be in a single oracle session. I think before sql and t...
by balajimadhav
Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: ds_seqput: error in 'write()' - Error 0
Replies: 3
Views: 2368

Thanks Ray. But how can i validate that this could be the problem and any solution for this? do i need to change any time out setting parameters? Currently my 'Wait for writer timeout' and 'Read timeout' is set to zero in the pipe stage. Also could you please let me know the usage of the above two o...
by balajimadhav
Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:10 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: ds_seqput: error in 'write()' - Error 0
Replies: 3
Views: 2368

ds_seqput: error in 'write()' - Error 0

Hi, I am using sequential stage (Pipes enabled) in my job which will write and read the records. Then using CRC32 function the checksum is generated and the generated checksum will be updated in my target. The pipe file is split in the job so that the sequential file / pipe stage is represented as 2...
by balajimadhav
Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:18 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Reg Contain Terminators
Replies: 2
Views: 1634

Reg Contain Terminators

Hi All, i have a source oracle stage and a piped sequential stage and a target oracle stage.i am getting error as "column missing". In data there are some special characters that causes such problem. hence i enabled the contain terminators then its working fine. Can any body explain how th...
by balajimadhav
Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:59 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Problem when dealing with Date
Replies: 7
Views: 3890

And also try to use Iconv and Oconv as " mcolen" mentioned. Hi balajimadhav , You have three columns(date,month,year) in the oracle table(source) and one column to be loaded in oracle table(target). my requirement in short: source c1 c2 c3 eg: 10 MAR 2000 target 10-MAR-2000 Try doing a co...
by balajimadhav
Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:25 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Problem when dealing with Date
Replies: 7
Views: 3890

Problem when dealing with Date

Hi all, my server job is a oracle -> transformer-> oracle stage. in source i have three columns as date,month(eg: JAN,DEC...format),year(all three of varchar2 datatype) but in target these three should be mapped to a date column in target. so i used a routine to map these source columns to target. b...
by balajimadhav
Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:43 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: error when using stored procedure
Replies: 2
Views: 1635

error when using stored procedure

Hi ,
i am getting the error below when calling a stored procedure in which parameters are passed through a transformer.

<<job_name>>.<stored procedure name>: Must have an output link to declare this type of parameter(B or O).

thanks in advance.
by balajimadhav
Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:31 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Error view data
Replies: 6
Views: 5688

Re: Error view data

i am getting the same error Error calling subroutine: DSD.Browse (Action=3); check DataStage is set up correctly in project <project Name>( and connection gets broken) every time when i do view data.
any solution for this?