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- Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:40 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: handling nulls
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2456
- Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:34 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: handling nulls
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2456
- Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:00 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: handling nulls
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2456
handling nulls
hello friends, i have a simple issue but is not getting resolved. i have some not null fields coming from OES and being written to a SFS using a Tfm. i have both varchar fields and date and decimal fields. I am able to take care of the warnings for varchar fields by putting Null value='' but this do...
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:01 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: trimming of decimals
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1512
trimming of decimals
hello everyone, i have a decimal field and i need to make sure that it does not contain any spaces anywhere. i tried to directly use trim function on this field but as i know its giving compiling problems.so in the transformer i have taken a stage variable sv=col1 and this sv is of course varchar an...
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:52 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: null handling
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6980
trimming from varchar to char
hello, first of all i think using trim function on a varchar filed and taking it as char in the target will not work because the spaces will not be trimmed as u store it in char.u can do one thing use trim function and populate it into varchar data type only.it does not matter whether the target tab...
- Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:49 pm
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: problems with invalid dates
- Replies: 1
- Views: 992
problems with invalid dates
i have the data coming form flat files. i have date columns as char(8).for example:20080115. this is not a problem wherein i can convert it into date data type in the transfomer. I also have dates coming from some other column in the source as char(6) eg:PQ0115. There is business logic for this like...
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:41 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: not abl to read flatfile with quote as double
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1669
not abl to read flatfile with quote as double
i have the sample coming as follows: "abc", "this is ""pick it up"" and check", "def" now i want the output in viewdata as follows abc, this is "pick it up" def instead this is getting rejected when reading with SFS. what delimiter string i...
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:03 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: reading a flat file
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1021
reading a flat file
i am trying to read a flatfile which is comma delimiter and double quoted. i have used the following format in SFS to read it. first line column name-true final delimiter-end record delimiter-unix newline field delimiter-comma quote-double i am working on DS 7.5.2 connected to unix server and my loc...