DSXchange

I'm doing a high-level plan for a historical data conversion from mainframe to DB2. I have used DataStage in the past, but my current client has often used custom COBOL code to perform conversions. I want to outline some pros and cons for my client before a decision is made. Some of the common disad...

You're right -- there have been multiple discussions around this topic, but unfortunately the only successful resolution seems to be deleting all nearby stages and links, and then recoding the lookup. I have done this, and it seems to be working... but I hope this is not considered a "solution....

I'm receiving a Fatal Error in a lookup stage with the following message: "Error when checking operator: Key field "A" not found in input schema" The error occurs during Startup time, not Production Run time. I have checked the obvious scenarios (View Data is working fine on all ...

Does using a shared container affect job performance in any way? In my current example, I'm facing an ugly string of lookup stages (i.e. the Reject link records for the first lookup stage must be the input records for a subsequent lookup stage with a slightly different match criteria, and so on), bu...