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by nmacolin
Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:15 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Sequential File Import - Doesnt like NULL Integer and Dates
Replies: 5
Views: 5096

Sequential File Import - Doesnt like NULL Integer and Dates

Hi all, General Question here, something basic or obvious I'm not doing. Situation. I Have server jobs which extract from source to Sequential files. The data types vary - Varchars, Integers, Dates. I then use the Sequential file in Px stage to load into Target schema. Problem : When I try and view ...
by nmacolin
Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:54 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Unidata stage - advice on best approach
Replies: 6
Views: 1838

Unidata best approach - advice

Thanks guys. Yes used an "Execute Command" stage to call a Windows Script file which converted the file into a comma delimited string and passed that to a "User Variables" stage and into the loop. All I have to worry about now is the limitation on string length which can be proce...
by nmacolin
Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:01 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Unidata stage - advice on best approach
Replies: 6
Views: 1838

Hi Ray, Can you elaborate. I'm not sure how this is going to solve the problem. I have a sequential file with a Company name per row. I need to pass the Company Name one by one from the file into the Job as a parameter and repeat this Job for the total number of Companies listed in the file. BTW, th...
by nmacolin
Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Unidata stage - advice on best approach
Replies: 6
Views: 1838

Unidata stage - advice on best approach

Hi all, Need some advice on the best approach here. ( Business Problem explained below ) Technical Problem. I have a Unidata Job which accepts a parameter, based on the paramter extracts the correct data and Generates a file. I would like to repeat the job for each list item in a file. There are 100...