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by ajay.vaidyanathan
Fri May 07, 2010 5:24 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Aborting Sequence if job finshed with warnings
Replies: 9
Views: 12865

Aborting Sequence if job finshed with warnings

Hi,
There are already few posts on the same context. Please search it in the forum.

Try Having "Custom Conditional" Trigger and check the JobStatus = 'Finished Ok' for SUCCESS Else GoTo Failure Link
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:28 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: i want to pass schema file-name during runtime.
Replies: 5
Views: 2194

Hi,

Add a parameter to your job properties and you will be able to pass your schema file name to it at run time.
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:56 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Substrings in a date
Replies: 2
Views: 1439

Hi, If you are sourcing from a Sequential File, goto the file properties tab where you will find a DATE sub-tab. Browse that tab and you will find ' FORMAT ' option. If you click it, you will be able to see the format of your date field. By default it is ' mm/dd/yyyy '. You can change this format to...
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:47 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Wait for File activites in Sequencer
Replies: 3
Views: 2190

Hi, In a Job Sequence you have something called as a " SEQUENCER " activity. In this sequencer activity, you can set ' ALL ' or ' ANY ' representation. Try using this. Set the ' ANY ' property and link all your ' WAIT FOR FILE ' activities to this sequencer activity with ' ANY ' set in it....
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:34 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How can I get the minimum date in the aggregator?
Replies: 10
Views: 6864

Hi,

Your DATA basically contains "DATE" values and your aggregator gets your output in "DOUBLE" data type. So convert your DATA column to a format compatible with DOUBLE data type and then try using Aggregator.
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:00 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Meta Data Extended
Replies: 6
Views: 3297

Meta Data Extended

Apart from unchecking the box 'ensure all char fields to be unicode', while loading metadata into any stage, you can also use a COPY stage and get rid of all those "UNICODES".
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:10 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Metadata and Dataset
Replies: 6
Views: 2271

Metadata and Dataset

Hi,

As Nagarjuna rightly said, unless you make any changes (Metadata Change) to your dataset in the first job, you can always go ahead and use it for the specified number of columns you want in the next successive jobs.
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:26 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Date format - Log error - PX
Replies: 5
Views: 5812

Date format - Log error - PX

Try out this particular check. In your Transformer define a "FLAG" in your Stage Variable and perform this check in your Stage Variable "If IsValid('date', EFF_DT) Then "Y" Else "N". Based on this Flag value, you can proceed further to either process the record or ...
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Thu May 28, 2009 11:36 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Setting Command Output to the job parameter
Replies: 12
Views: 5541

Setting Command Output to the job parameter

Hi, U cannot directly use MAX() in $CommandOutput. If dis is wat u r doing, den its wrong. If gettin MAX value is wat ur requirement all about, den try fetchin it at ur UNIX lvl interface b4 performin it at DS lvl. Once u 've ur MAX value frm UNIX, den u can go ahead n use it in ur job usin a Comman...
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:01 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DataSets or Database tables for staging
Replies: 8
Views: 3323

i would like to go with tables coz its easy to identify ane kind of data issue with the help of a query.......in datasets its difficult to identify these data issues........but finally it depends upon ones requirements to have a dataset or a table.........
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:59 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DataSets or Database tables for staging
Replies: 8
Views: 3323

i would like to go with tables coz its easy to identify ane kind of data issue with the help of a query.......in datasets its difficult to identify these data issues........but finally it depends upon ones requirements to have a dataset or a table.........
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:26 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How do you pass a job parameter to a buildop
Replies: 14
Views: 4358

you cannot pass job parameter to buildop.........its a pure c++ code.......
by ajay.vaidyanathan
Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:16 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How do you pass a job parameter to a buildop
Replies: 14
Views: 4358

you cannot pass job parameter to buildop