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by jonesv
Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:20 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Index Position of Last Occurrence of String
Replies: 13
Views: 10895

Index Position of Last Occurrence of String

Hi I am looking for a way to return the index position of the last occurrence of a substring in a given string. The requirement I have is to confirm that an email address has at least one period (.) after the @ character in the address. But there could be multiple dots before the @ and after the @. ...
by jonesv
Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:33 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Multi-Instance Overhead
Replies: 7
Views: 2993

Thanks guys. Yea, I think its not a great idea as well. Just wanted some ammo from all you experts to take back with me to try to convince them otherwise. And yes, the same thoughts occurred to me last night about contention with targets, lookups etc. If any of you think of any more compelling reaso...
by jonesv
Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Multi-Instance Overhead
Replies: 7
Views: 2993

Thanks for the welcome Ray. I guess the reasons are two-fold: 1. A good chunk of our jobs will require us to run multi-instance anyway. 2. Testing. We might have different groups within the org doing different phases of testing...i.e. we may have stress testing going on concurrently with function te...
by jonesv
Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:50 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Multi-Instance Overhead
Replies: 7
Views: 2993

Multi-Instance Overhead

Hi,

I was just wondering what overhead Multi-Instance jobs have over Single-Instnace jobs. In my current engagement, they want to implement a standard dictating that all jobs be developed multi-instance, and I was wondering what drawbacks were (if any) if such a standard was implemented.

Thanks