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Does anyone have any experience developing a custom GUI for a plugin? In either 7.5.x Server or Enterprise Edition? I have something called the "Plugin GUIs SDK", which include MFC base classes that probably provide the basic tabs in a stage's configuration and define the COM interfaces be...

There is a Teradata package called "Shared ICU Libraries for Teradata" that is a dependency of Teradata's Call Level Interface. This needs to be installed on your DataStage server. Also, check to make sure that "Teradata GSS Client" is installed. You can find more information abo...

Hello, We just recently had some issues with Teradata returning 2631 messages. In our situation, the messages were not actually related to lock contention, but to other system level problems that Teradata's support staff had to intervene with. In this case though, there is a very real possibility th...

I think this is a bug in the Enterprise Edition stage. For most applications, the default response buffer length is about 8K. The Teradata Enterprise Edition stage should increase the response buffer size depending on the size of the record expected to be returned to DS. If you would like to see the...

devnull wrote:All kinds of C++ API information is provided to allow us to extend DataStage right?

Why give us heavy tools and then advise us against using them?

I couldn't agree more devnull. I'll be right there looking with you - I'll let you know what I find out.

To get a Reporting Assistant extract to work at our site, we had to remove the primary key constraint from the DSProperties table. You might try an export against an Access DB linked back to Oracle - if you don't have interest in the MetaStage route in its current release, give this a whirl.