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by leon.ho
Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:50 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date value turning into ********** for Nulls
Replies: 18
Views: 3351

Thanks Nick. Thanks everybody. I will try to mess with the settings and see if anything improves.
by leon.ho
Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:25 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date value turning into ********** for Nulls
Replies: 18
Views: 3351

I do have a reject link coming out of the xfm. From what I can see the same column in the reject file is set to Nullable = "Yes". If there is some other property than I haven't set it.
by leon.ho
Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:14 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date value turning into ********** for Nulls
Replies: 18
Views: 3351

Ok So I set that environment variable to True and ran the code again. It doesn't look like it gave any additional error messages:

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by leon.ho
Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:53 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date value turning into ********** for Nulls
Replies: 18
Views: 3351

I've set it everywhere except for the actual CFF stage that I used to read the file. It won't let me set the field as Nullable there for some reason. Everywhere else has the field as Nullable = Yes.
by leon.ho
Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:46 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date value turning into ********** for Nulls
Replies: 18
Views: 3351

Yes I set the field as Nullable in the Dataset defnition. It is also Nullable in the database.
by leon.ho
Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:33 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date value turning into ********** for Nulls
Replies: 18
Views: 3351

Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. I'm doing currently doing this and landing it into a dataset. IF IsNULL(In.CDKFRLU2_CLS_DT) THEN SetNull() ELSE In.CDKFRLU2_CLS_DT It is giving me the following warnings: xfmBuild_RollP_Fmt: When checking operator: When binding input interface field "input0Int8CD...
by leon.ho
Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:20 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date value turning into ********** for Nulls
Replies: 18
Views: 3351

Date value turning into ********** for Nulls

Hi, I'm reading a Complex Flat File which as a date field that sometimes contains NULL value. I use a Split Subrecord stage to flatten the file and then map this date field to output defined as date. When the incoming value is NULL the output turns into **********, which causes a problem when I try ...