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Hi All: Just wanted to share a real complex issue which has been dogging me for some time now: Has anyone got DataStage jobs to refer business rules for data in a Decision engine: Let me give you the situation: A leading finance giant wants a huge data transformation process done with DataStage, all...

Hey Tony !! Thanks a ton :

I apologize that I took the liberty with Ray...I was despo that the problem shud be resolved....

I understand that the approach taken by me is not right. I stand corrected.

Thanks once again to Craig,Tony and Ray & all DS forummers!!!

Regards
Srinivas.B

Hi Ray: Am telnetting from India into a remote server on which DS Ver 5.2 r1 is installed ,the error which come when I try to run uv at DSHOME/bin is as follows: $ pwd /home/sribalas $ cd / $ cd home/dsadm/Ascential/DataStage $ ls DSEngine Projects Template.ini ud41 Plugins.ini Template branded_odbc...

Hi:

There is no point in installing PX on a comp with less than 4 CPUs...becoz there will be no great improvement in the throughput, yes you can is the answer

Gurus:

Could you help out on the server side?

Regards
Srinivas.B

Once you import the seq file definition in Manager, double click the icon and use the format tab which has a synch to Parallel. It will show you that some properties do not apply to PX say ok Then remember that PX can operate with Datasets better and you could use the peek stage to view data from th...

Hi, Wanted to know the best approach to a complex problem. I am expected to flow data from 2 flat files into a huge XSD( XML format which is existing ) in step 1 and flow data from XML stage to RDBMS ( Informix) my flow is like this: File 1 and 2 ---> Transformer ---> XML Output (Step 1) Where I use...

Hi Everyone, Informatica touts that its repository resides on any std RDBMS while DS stuff is in Universe DB. Is there any way or plan to make DS repository compatible with major RDBMS (i.e. independant of universe ) How easy is it to get meta data reports? I have used the following procedure once. ...

Hi, I currently work with a global MNC using DS for ETL efforts.There are almost 400 jobs in the projects for various data flows. The key issue is multiple developers handling (read modifying) a single job design(as required by the end user group he/she supports). Will a configuration management/ver...

Yes Ken and Ray, It is a PX situation, the customer is developing the designs on PX and we ( offshore/remote development team ) are supporting our developers who are onsite .As of now, we have not started any concrete work on that front. The plug in stages are displayed , am not able to get the plug...

Hi Ken and Ray, Thanks at the outset for your time and attention. I have a situation where we were informed that we had to re pipe (re design) a whole host of DS designs and we were also requested to sharpen our C++ skills for this assigment which actually is a migration from Oracle to DB2. In this ...

Hi Ray and Ken, While I have been hearing projects where C++ custom applications were written and utilized. I require expert inputs on : 1.What is the case when C++ is used ? Is it becos such functions cannot be written by any other application? 2. How does Perl interact with DataStage? 3.What are t...

Hi, I have installed DataStage Ver 6.0 on Win 2000 professional PC with server on local machine.While am able to design, compile and run DS jobs. While on PX canvas, am able to design the job , compile it, BUT am not able to run the job as it gives an ERROR MESSAGE that this platform is not suitable...

Hi, Its a great idea to archive the learnings from Oliver.Actually I had a suggestion which I will try to articulate. OS ---> Win/Unix (Possible I layer) Component wise---> Server and Client Client ---> Admin, Mgr,Des, Director Under each component , start off with issues on installation, going on t...

Hi, Thanks a lot for all of your inputs. I AM ABLE TO DO IT ON PDF !! Hurray!! But I still want it on MS word ( if possible)--->:-) But I had a horrid time setting up the PS printer: This link was very useful: http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/conferences/MWP99/Papers/ps_drivers.html If you are not able to see...