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by natashab
Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:44 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: how to generate unique keys for the same customer?
Replies: 8
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how to generate unique keys for the same customer?

In Banking Domain,a new customer deposits some amount say Rs.5000.The same day the customer withdraws Rs.1000.Will the customer be generated with 2 different surrogate keys generating duplicate records if the target table is used as Reference table while performing a lookup?
by natashab
Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:31 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Incrementing surrogate key
Replies: 10
Views: 6469

RE

The page didn't allow me to draw the design of the job perfectly.
That's PX job design.
If it's a server job then a hash file can be used to do the lookup.
by natashab
Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:21 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Incrementing surrogate key
Replies: 10
Views: 6469

Surrogate Key

Design the job as shown below: ------------------Surrogate table FlatFile -------> Lookup ---------->Transformer---------> DB2 ............................... ..................... Aggregator--------->Surrogate Table In the lookup stage ,lookup the table_name(target table name) field and retrieve th...