Search found 13 matches

by jwhyman
Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:17 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: swap filling while memory is still available
Replies: 7
Views: 4923

Before Solaris 2 (SunOS 5), Solaris was notourious for its swap requirements, roughly 2 to 2.5 * physical ram would basically need be allocated. Any memory requirement of a forked process was allocated on swap, with more to come as any anonymous (heap) memory was used. So it was common and possible ...
by jwhyman
Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:35 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Deletion of files of pattern DSD.RUN* from &PH& dire
Replies: 5
Views: 3181

Be careful if this is an NLS project, do not delete the .uvnlsmap file.
by jwhyman
Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:08 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Parallel job internal error
Replies: 1
Views: 1932

Ask Ascential support for a patch, mention Ecase 52860.
by jwhyman
Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:22 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Bus error (Coredump)
Replies: 22
Views: 11193

LD_PRELOAD set? Not sure of your DS and HP rev so canot advise, sheck with support f you can safely unset.
by jwhyman
Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:05 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Looking for EBCDIC 297 Code page.
Replies: 1
Views: 1702

Assume you require EBCDICfor French. 297 is not shippped. However as of about revision 7, map EBCDIC-1147 is, this is an updated 297 that includes the Euro symbol. If you do not want the Euro symbol use 1147 as a template and modify it. Instructions are in the NLS Guide shipped wiith the online docs...
by jwhyman
Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:33 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Is Pick Basic still the programming language in PX?
Replies: 9
Views: 4700

PX and server are yes different animals, but you job control with PX can still be written in BASIC. It is prfeerred that you use the job sequencer which will write it for you. The DS Engine is still required for for keeping log files. job information etc as in server jobs, so our knowledge would sti...
by jwhyman
Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:17 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Difference/Advantage of using Transform instead of Routine
Replies: 12
Views: 8396

You use a routine for logic that cannot be represented in a transform. A transfrorm is an expression, whereas routines can contain statements. I am surprised that you say that Basic is so slow, some of the functionality beneath statemnts is very complex. It is yes slower than maybe taking the time t...
by jwhyman
Sun Jul 04, 2004 7:34 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Converting numeric data to COBOL Comp-3
Replies: 3
Views: 2129

The reason the SDK has it this way is because most customers read from mainrames nd not send data to them. The SDK comes with source, you have the algorithm one way, work out how to reverse it.
by jwhyman
Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:07 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Converting UTF8 to ASCII file and back to UTF8
Replies: 9
Views: 8079

There is no need to convert from ASCII to UTF8 by definition ASCII and UTF8 are invariant. 0x00-0x7F is encoded as 0x00-0x7F. This is the reason why it is used.
by jwhyman
Sun Jun 06, 2004 7:44 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: TO Check If a DOS filepath exists using Basic.
Replies: 14
Views: 6595

openpath and openseq are undistinguishible uner the covers, notice I said openpseq and openseq.

End of June Ray, currently scheduled to be back in Tokyo 24th, been there for the last 3 weeks, we have a very large PX client going live, after 9 months of devellopment, so have to be there.
by jwhyman
Sun Jun 06, 2004 1:03 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: TO Check If a DOS filepath exists using Basic.
Replies: 14
Views: 6595

[quote="kcbland"]You need to be careful if you are doing a lot of repetitive calls to a DS function doing OPENSEQ statements looking for the same file. DS has issues and will false-positive hit sometimes. The most solid solution is to use the OS's own tools for file existence (dir on NT an...
by jwhyman
Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:09 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: uv command invoke errors out looking for a specific module.
Replies: 7
Views: 4374

For security reasons, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored at runtime for executables that have their setuid or setgid bit set.
by jwhyman
Sat Jun 05, 2004 10:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: index(arg) error
Replies: 2
Views: 3056

Contact Ascential Support. This is a known problem.