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by mac4rfree85
Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:00 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: StringToDate conversion problem
Replies: 11
Views: 9127

@kbsuryadev,, ya correct.. it was a typo.. still showing the same error.
@chulett, my source data is like this 20101007063654
by mac4rfree85
Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:59 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: StringToDate conversion problem
Replies: 11
Views: 9127

StringToDate conversion problem

Hi Guys, My Source is SAP which is having a Timestamp value in Char field. So,i am converting the Character field to Date using the below code StringToDate(Colname,"%yyyy-%mm%dd") But i am getting a warning for all the rows and the target is not getting loaded. The warning is Conversion er...
by mac4rfree85
Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:16 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem with a sequencer
Replies: 10
Views: 4731

You can't in this particular scenario. Use two targets for this, one for the insert and one for the update. Yes, that does mean you need to determine which is which rather than relying on the crutch of the database doing that for you but that should be a very simple lookup. Ya chulett, Finally that...
by mac4rfree85
Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:13 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem with a sequencer
Replies: 10
Views: 4731

@chulett,, Thanks removing the column for which i need to populate the value did the trick.. Now i am able to insert to the table successfully. But i need to do a upsert instead of only insert statement. When i give the update statement along with the insert statement separated by ';', it is throwin...
by mac4rfree85
Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem with a sequencer
Replies: 10
Views: 4731

@chullet, in the column tabs i have 42 columns and in the query also i have 42 columns mentioned. I cross checked the query, i have 41 '?' and 1 sequencename.Nextval... So, the query is correct. @dsx999, it is a insert query,, so unable to run it as i did not have a test data with me.. One more thin...
by mac4rfree85
Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:52 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem with a sequencer
Replies: 10
Views: 4731

chulett, the query i posted is a similiar one.it is a very long query.. i double checked it.. the number of columns and the '?' are matching..
by mac4rfree85
Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:38 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Problem with a sequencer
Replies: 10
Views: 4731

Problem with a sequencer

Hi Guys, I am trying to create a surrogate key using the Oracle sequencer. I have given the following statement as Userdefined SQL. Insert into Table (colnam1,colnam2,,,,) values (schema.sequencename.nextval,?,?,,,,); But it is throwing me an error saying as "invalid variable/number". I am...
by mac4rfree85
Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:47 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: need to convert string(DDMMYYYY) to Date field YYYY-MM-DD
Replies: 6
Views: 16292

Thanks Guys,, that solves my problem ... Thanks all for your help...
by mac4rfree85
Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:51 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: need to convert string(DDMMYYYY) to Date field YYYY-MM-DD
Replies: 6
Views: 16292

thanks guys,, that solved my problem.. but the data coming from the source is coming in two formats..

1. 20102009
2. 20-10-2009

Can you please advise me what needs to be done. i do not want to drop any of the records..
THanks once again for your help...
by mac4rfree85
Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:45 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: need to convert string(DDMMYYYY) to Date field YYYY-MM-DD
Replies: 6
Views: 16292

need to convert string(DDMMYYYY) to Date field YYYY-MM-DD

Hi Guys, I am getting Data from source in a flat file. There is a column D_DATE which will have data in the format DDMMYYYY. I need to convert it to YYYY-MM-DD. I used StringToDate function but in vain. The Code i used are StringToDate(DSLink1.D_DATE,"%yyyy%mm%dd") as well as StringToDate(...
by mac4rfree85
Thu Nov 25, 2010 3:30 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: problem with LINKROWCOUNT
Replies: 1
Views: 1226

problem with LINKROWCOUNT

Hi, I am trying to get the rowcount of the records from a flat file. Design Flatfile ---> Transformer ---> Flatfile In transformer, am creating a new field which will contain the count of the records in the flatfile. The expression i am using is as below DSGetLinkInfo(DSJ.ME,"Jobname",&quo...
by mac4rfree85
Fri Nov 12, 2010 5:34 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Sequential file name with Timestamp
Replies: 8
Views: 3874

tested it succesfully.. tat fixed it..
by mac4rfree85
Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:22 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Sequential file name with Timestamp
Replies: 8
Views: 3874

Thanks guys,, cudn test it though.. but i think i got it...
by mac4rfree85
Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:52 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Sequential file name with Timestamp
Replies: 8
Views: 3874

This is what i got from director.

.AfterJob (ExecSH): Error when executing command: mv Rej.txt Rej`date +'%m%d'`.txt
*** Output from command was: ***
mv: cannot access Rej.txt
by mac4rfree85
Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:50 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Sequential file name with Timestamp
Replies: 8
Views: 3874

I am getting an error with ExecSH. This is what i gave After-Job Routine : ExecSH Input Value : mv Rej.txt Rej`date +'%m%d'`.txt The mv command is working fine which i have tested it. AFter the run, i am able to find the Rej.txt also which was created by the job. Can anybody shed some light on where...