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by mcas
Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:34 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Schema files - variable length - decimal
Replies: 5
Views: 9505

In the schema file defined for the sequential file (input/output) define the decimal column like - USD_TA: not_nullable decimal[26,3] {null_field='00000000000000000000000000'}; My intention is to take the output to a variable-length format. This way i'll be writing fixed length. If i have a NULL va...
by mcas
Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:13 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Schema files - variable length - decimal
Replies: 5
Views: 9505

Eventhough you posted it in server forum, i think its related to PX. Datastage pads non significant zeros to decimal and hence the behaviour you saw in datastage management utility. If the values are correct there is no problem at all. If you are loading it to database decimal field, there is no pr...