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I have created some environemnt variables using designer. how to specify default values for these environment variables.

I have a sequence that has several number of job activities in it. All these call the same job which was set to run multiple times(check Multiple instance). The invocation id was specified on all the job activities was different. But the sequence was not running parallel, moreover it is failing with...

Pls explain using #PARAM1# and #$PARAM1#

what are the scenariois we use these where we use each one of them and why?

Pls explain all the details you know about these.

Thanks,
Ravi Varma

A user "abc" was created in AIX and was assigned to group "grp1" The group "grp1" was assigned to DS project "DSPROJ1" using DS ADMIN. but when the user was trying to login into DS DESIGNER he is getting the below error - DSR.ADMIN: Failed to add user to UV_US...

How to Read the dataset file outside of Datastage -- 1. How can i read the dataset file in UNIX (.ds) 2. I would like to ftp the dataset file from UNIX box to my Desktop and read it from there. This is needed for my testing purposes. Is there a way to convert the dataset file in UNIX to the ascii fo...

I was trying to get the maximum value of a timestamp field in a file for later comparison. But while doing that the aggregator is trying to convert the max value to double datatype. How can i aggregate the timestamp value and map to the timestmp filed. I need to get the maximum value of a TimeStamp ...

When i compile a job it is giving the following compilation error -

Unable to write record <job_name> to file RT_CONFIG910.

If i save the same job with a different name it compiles for good !!!

when i open a sequence in designer it was showing (Multiple Instance) after the sequence name. What does this mean?