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by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:31 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: runLocally did not return AP error in PX job
Replies: 9
Views: 6965

Hi ,
I have found the solution for this . Please use the environment variable APT_ORACLE_PRESERVE_BLANKS. This instructs the sqlldr to preserve the blanks for the character or varchar metadata.Its working superb...
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:29 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: runLocally did not return AP error in PX job
Replies: 9
Views: 6965

One More stuff is that Reject link is not capturing the failed record from the Oracle Enterprise stage ... Any reason if load is enabled will the reject link will not work ?
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:28 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: runLocally did not return AP error in PX job
Replies: 9
Views: 6965

Hi , Yes i have found teh log in the scartch disk and following are the piece of contents that i am suspecting for the cause odf the problem SQL*Loader: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Sun Sep 7 06:45:11 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Control File: ora.1220608.575468....
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:21 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Load option in Oracle Enterprise stage gives trouble
Replies: 5
Views: 2789

I am getting quite confused as these scratch disks were used for mostly the sort purpose and join related stuffs. But why does this sqlldr uses the scratch disk for feeding .. As all the records are available in the dataset ....Does this means that all the records in the dataset are first brought in...
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:08 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Automatic conversion of spaces in CFF to Null in oracle
Replies: 3
Views: 1450

Automatic conversion of spaces in CFF to Null in oracle

Hi , I am extracting from the mainframe file and dumping the data into the target table using the load option . All the fields are non nullable both in the source and the target . But due to the blank spaces in the source PX converts them to null and tries to insert them in the target . The job abor...
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:51 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: runLocally did not return AP error in PX job
Replies: 9
Views: 6965

Hi i am having the same issue now... Can someone give some clue on this please
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:18 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Load option in Oracle Enterprise stage gives trouble
Replies: 5
Views: 2789

The load option uses an sqlldr to load the data .... I am not aware of where i should go and check the sqlldr log files so that i could see about the detailed oracle logged error msgs for the Bad File Number
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:37 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: string_from_decimal showing warning
Replies: 4
Views: 2186

Hi ,
As said i have added some more length into the string but it still throws truncation warning ie Possible truncation of string[14] to string[12]. The output tab holds the metadata as string[12]( This is the metadata that the target table has)
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:23 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: string_from_decimal showing warning
Replies: 4
Views: 2186

string_from_decimal showing warning

Hi I am using this function to convert a decimal to the string . I am getting warnings as implicit conversion from source type "string" to result type "string[max=4]": Possible truncation of variable length string. The stuff is its taking string without any length and converting ...
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:08 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: ignoring header and trailer records
Replies: 5
Views: 1846

Hi Nigel, Please use your datastage manager for specifying the Header and the last Null row in the mainframe file metadata. Try saving the metadata with these new properties and load them to the CFF stage again. This would show warnings in the director log again when you run .....But px happily exec...
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:43 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Load option in Oracle Enterprise stage gives trouble
Replies: 5
Views: 2789

Load option in Oracle Enterprise stage gives trouble

Hi , I am loading 1100000 records into the oracle stage using the write method =load and write mode =append and index mode =Rebuild .The source is a dataset stage. I am recieving the following error when i run the job write() failed: Bad file number But when i change the write method to upsert and w...
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:15 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: ignoring header and trailer records
Replies: 5
Views: 1846

Any clues please ...I am not finding these topics using search also ......
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:41 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: modify showing problem
Replies: 2
Views: 1177

modify showing problem

Hi I am renaming the columns using the modify stage and i am getting the errors as below
Specification in the modify stage =

Code: Select all

New_col=Old_col,New_col1=Old_col1
the error i am recieving is

Code: Select all

Expected ';' or end, got: "="; 
Any clues on this please....
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:33 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: ignoring header and trailer records
Replies: 5
Views: 1846

ignoring header and trailer records

Hi , I am using a mainframe fixed width file as a source and the px is showing warnings as import failed for these two records and the two records are rejected. I would like to ignore the reads of the header and trailer records of the CFF file so that the warnings will not be generated . Kindly help
by Ragunathan Gunasekaran
Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:18 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Change in the level number while saving metadata
Replies: 5
Views: 1577

Hi Any help on this post please. Now i am finding another trouble in reading my mainframe fixed file. The first name contains column and the last line has a footer. I have to omit the first and last lines while i read the mainframe file . Any possiblities for this issue ? kindly help... There are wa...