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- Wed Jun 07, 2017 9:16 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Handling non English characters while using substring
- Replies: 5
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Thanks Mike and Craig ! @Mike, That's exactly what happened in the scenario I explained. The string got truncated in the middle of multi byte character. As a workaround, I added a check to see if the 30th character is alphanumeric. If not I extract only the 29 characters to avoid and loading issue. ...
- Wed Jun 07, 2017 7:38 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Handling non English characters while using substring
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4095
Thanks Mike for the response. In fact, we were using NVARCHAR initially. In that case, DS reads the special character as single byte. When applying SUBSTR [1,30], it extracted 31 bytes of data. But the target Oracle table has size restriction of 30 bytes. So the record was getting rejected by DB for...