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by zulfi123786
Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:26 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Trim on char fields
Replies: 13
Views: 3930

chulett wrote:You can't trim spaces from a char. Why not simply check for = 'IN ' instead? ...
i need this field to make joins, so should trim it.
by zulfi123786
Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:14 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: What happens when varchar is mapped to char, look at the ex.
Replies: 4
Views: 1788

What happens when varchar is mapped to char, look at the ex.

For example:

A field 'ID' is Varchar(10) and having a value "abc", if this field is directly mapped to "IP_ID" char(10) in a transformer, would it append 7 spaces to "IP_ID".
by zulfi123786
Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:04 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Trim on char fields
Replies: 13
Views: 3930

Trim on char fields

Hi, I am trying to read a sequential file having 10 columns all defined as varchar. A transformer stage follows the sequential file where i am converting some varchar to char. There is a field 'GMAB' of length 3 having value 'IN ' for all the records. In the transformer stage i am using TrimLeadingT...
by zulfi123786
Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:44 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Sorting data - partition design question
Replies: 4
Views: 2328

Re: Sorting data - partition design question

hi, basically the sort stage sorts the data within the partitions. at the o/p of the sort stage the data is sorted within the partitions and when writing to dataset the data from all partitions gets collected, thereby if u look at the entire set of data the sorting looks as if it is lost. To avoid t...
by zulfi123786
Mon Dec 01, 2008 4:22 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Datastage PX DB2 stage varchar length
Replies: 1
Views: 1608

Datastage PX DB2 stage varchar length

Hi Guys, I am using a DB2 stage to write to a table and the Default String Length property is set to 32 bytes. what would be the length of varchar field being written into the table, would it be 32 for all entries or would it be the length of the data being written? For example if i am writing 'sam'...
by zulfi123786
Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:14 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: datastage PX guides
Replies: 3
Views: 4300

datastage PX guides

Hi,

I need to know from where i can download the following guides for PX 7.5.1.

Parallel job developer guide
advanced Parallel job developer guide
director guide
server job developer guide
manager guide
administrator guide