DSXchange

It's for import of DSX files only.

You might want to check out the new Asset Import/Export capabilities of Information Server 8.1. And the ISManager tool. These use a new format, not DSX though, as they apply to more than just DataStage artifacts. So can't handle stuff from before 8.1.

A number of errors appear on the client for which you really need to see a Java stack trace to find the root cause. If you look in the C:\Documents and Settings\ Windows_Username \ds_logs directory you should find files named like dstage_wrapper_trace_NN.log (where N cycles from 1 to 20, to give you...

8.1 has a command that you run on the server - DSXImportService.bat or DSXImportService.sh, depending on whether it is Windows or Unix.
In C:\IBM\InformationServer\ASBNode\bin by default.

If this is a parallel job and it calls a shared container, it may be a compiler bug. There is an APAR # JR29478 that resolves a very similar error message where "DSCAPIOP_ " appears as part of the param name.

If the "Execution mode" box on the Advanced tab says "Parallel", the stage will run in parallel. The number of nodes it uses depends on the config file it is given at run time, not design time (that's what the $APT_CONFIG_FILE parameter gets used for). The bit of the Advanced tab...

DSX files are created on the client (that is the same machine you are running the Designer on) in any location you choose to give to the export dialog. If you create a DSX file by running the dsexport.exe command, again you specify where you want to create the file on the local (must be Windows) sys...

Files whose Description field (in the VOC entry) contains certain strings, such as "DataStage", get filtered out early on in the process.

Have a look at the MatchField() function or the Matches operator in the BASIC Reference Guide. Note that this uses different pattern syntax from what you may be used to - it is not the same as "regular expressions" you find in C etc. Something like If string Matches "0X'src'" The...

Assuming what you want to do is find the names of all links of all stages in a job, and can then use pattern-matching on the link names to decide which ones to call via DSGetLinkInfo - e.g. ending in "_src" or "_tgt" or somthing like that:- DSGetJobInfo(JobHandle,DSJ.FULLSTAGELIS...

DSEngine's Virtual Machine will have an upper limit of about 2GB on the length of a string variable that it can represent. In practice you don't get near that because of physical limitations, as Ray said.

Yep, post the code or a DSX & I can probably interpret it for you. Only way to trace this sort of thing, that I can think of, would be to put Routine stages into the sequence between other stages, using calls to UtilityMessageToLog to log messages containing the actual values of various job vari...

Actually at 8.x, job reports generated from the Designer get sent to the reporting service and end up stored in the repostory database. They aren't held in the Unix file system directly, the report contents are held a column in a database table (e.g. DB2) defined as a blob.

Hmm - it sounds as if the sequence should now be designed to do what you want, so we are back to why 2 triggers fire & 2 jobs run instead of one. If you can post a DSX export of the sequence here I could take a look. Or, you might look yourself at the generated code which will be in the job cont...

The trigger tab of a job activity stage is an expression that fires after the job has run. Sounds like your expressions need to be on the triggers of the Execute Command stage, not the job activity. Those fire after the command is executed, to decide whether execution proceeds to the next stage (the...

From your original mail, it sounded like the character set of the data you are reading in the job was UTF-8. You should not change the project or job maps to say MS-936-CS, in that case. If you do, you are telling DataStage that the *data* is in code page 936, when it is not - it is in UTF-8. (The r...