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by ady
Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Special character !! ... ascii value "20" ?
Replies: 15
Views: 4442

Padchar = SPACE
by ady
Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:44 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Special character !! ... ascii value "20" ?
Replies: 15
Views: 4442

The job design is like this: SEQUENTIAL FILE - BASIC TRANSFORMER - SEQUENTIAL FILE I am Trimming, changing the datatypes from varchar to char, and forcing 2 decimal(20) values to char(17) using Right(Trim(IN.COL,".","A"),17) Thats it ... there nothing more to the job. you can see...
by ady
Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:35 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Special character !! ... ascii value "20" ?
Replies: 15
Views: 4442

Thanks for the replies guys ... sorry i'm late to catch up, The "space characters" which are padding the data show up as "#" in SAP BW environment. 20 14 ctlT DC4 | 84 54 T is the value padding the data, Its a space but shows up as "#" in SAP. When i try to view the fil...
by ady
Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:31 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Special character !! ... ascii value "20" ?
Replies: 15
Views: 4442

0506110000 0000905413TN200605120620000000 0000905413TN200605140356380000 0000905413TN200605150568250000 0000905413TN200605210306880000 0000915113 ZP200608130546660000 0000915113ZP200608140291640000 0000915113ZP2006081806 04450000 0000915113ZP200608210647340000 0000905413TN200605120241960000 00009054...
by ady
Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Special character !! ... ascii value "20" ?
Replies: 15
Views: 4442

PX JOB

But I am using a server transformer in the job.... We dont have the parallel compiler :(
by ady
Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Special character !! ... ascii value "20" ?
Replies: 15
Views: 4442

Special character !! ... ascii value "20" ?

HI, I am creating a fixed width file as a final target to my job. DS fills the empty space with blank values which are not spaces. This file when we try to load to SAP those blanks show as ###. I have tried viewing the file in HEX EDITOR and found that "20" is filling in the spaces( THE VA...
by ady
Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Blank "Timestamp" field shows *****
Replies: 9
Views: 2400

@DSguru

So my job will look like


seq file > modify > ...rest of the job....>>>

Would that solve my problem?
by ady
Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Blank "Timestamp" field shows *****
Replies: 9
Views: 2400

When i specify a default value in the table definition , I dont get the **** anymore ... Cant I insert blank space in "Timestamp" field?
by ady
Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:14 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Blank "Timestamp" field shows *****
Replies: 9
Views: 2400

I do not use a parallel transformer in my jobs , I use a basic transformer in my parallel jobs too. Where can I specify type conversions
by ady
Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:41 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Blank "Timestamp" field shows *****
Replies: 9
Views: 2400

No type conversion in the job. I am performing two joins on the data but no transformations and type conversions.



SEQ file Seqfile

> join1 > Join2 > Output Seq File
Seq File
by ady
Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:18 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Blank "Timestamp" field shows *****
Replies: 9
Views: 2400

Blank "Timestamp" field shows *****

Hi, I have a job where I get blank data from the source for a column with "Timestamp" datatype in a seq file. The source is from a server job. When i view the data in parallel it shows blank columns but when I write the data in a seq file or a dataset.... The data shows as "*******&qu...
by ady
Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:09 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Is this the right way to execute a script in a sequence
Replies: 2
Views: 1381

Is this the right way to execute a script in a sequence

The script name is "PMCSExtractEPBWhlseOrders", its a sql script. I am specifying the script in a execute command stage in a sequence. Is this the way I am supposed to do it?? I get a error saying SP2-0640: Not connected , when i do it ... does this mean i dont have the permission to execu...
by ady
Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:51 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: reading a delimited file
Replies: 19
Views: 4209

I dont know if NLS ia enabled or not but, ... there are no characters other than alphabets and digits in the column thats missing
by ady
Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:07 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: reading a delimited file
Replies: 19
Views: 4209

I have the same problem with another file ... its also a "|" delimited file coming from a sql script. I can see data from all the columns except one ... The column shows up blank, there is data present in the column for sure ... The datatype is varchar... I tried changing it to decimal ( f...
by ady
Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:48 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Constraint to abort job
Replies: 19
Views: 6220

Thanks for the response guys... In my case i'm comparing the counts in a job , ... INPUTROW COUNT = OUTPUT ROWCOUNT (this is the constraint), if they are equal then the job should run. If not it should fail. This job will be in a sequence, so even if the job fails after processing all the rows ... a...