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- Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:26 pm
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Oracle connector Usage
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1206
Oracle connector Usage
We have certain jobs that use Oracle connector. I just want to understand if the it can handle the following: - Table being loaded ran out of extents or the tablespace ran out of room? - Network disconnect, database outage, or other issue that prevents data from being loaded? The question is whether...
- Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:49 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Lookup output AS as parameter
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1423
Lookup output AS as parameter
I have a lookup table which has a structure like this: Ref_File Master_File ---------- ------------- a.txt Ref_a.txt b.txt Ref_b.txt c.txt Ref_c.txt hen I lookup onthe table a.txt, the output is Ref_a.txt. I want to use this value as a parameter and pass it to a seq file stage which will fetch the d...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:07 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: DS job load validation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2585
- Mon Jan 09, 2012 10:54 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: DS job load validation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2585
DS job load validation
We have a lot of jobs that load data from flat file to an oracle table. Each src file also has a control file that contain a count of the records. After the data is loaded to the table, I need to validate if the control file count and records that are loaded is same. I know this is a pretty common s...
- Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:35 pm
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Integer Validation issue
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1822
Integer Validation issue
I have a column (loast column) coming from a flat file (fixed width). I am doing an integer validation for it using the below statement: If IsValid("int32", Col) then 'Valid' else 'invalid' The values in the source file are between 0 to 5. I was expecting the output to be 'Valid'. But surp...
- Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:08 pm
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Handling spaces
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1887
- Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:01 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Handling spaces
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1887
Handling spaces
There are lot of source files which are fixed width and I am using 'CHAR' to read them and it works well. It also turns out that I get spaces in certain columns because of this. There are more than 80 files and each file has 200+ columns. Is there any way to handle these other than using a Trim in t...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:17 pm
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Decimal Validation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1601
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:51 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Decimal Validation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1601
Decimal Validation
I have a oracle target table column with data type as Decimal and its precision is 12,3. SO, it can accomodate 3 digits after the decimal. I have an input coming from a flat file with the following values : 100 200.1 300.123 10A IsValid("decimal[12,3]", SrcCol) then SrcCol else SetNull() I...
- Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:29 am
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Help in building a simple parallel routine
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1302
Help in building a simple parallel routine
I need to build a simple routine to handle a logic like this. I went thru the option of creating a enw parallel routine. But, I am lost as to where I need to put this logic. There doesnt seem to be a place to add this code. If IsValid('date', ToTfm.AS_OF_DATE,"%yyyy%mm%dd") then StringTODa...
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:53 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Attach YYYYMMDD to file name
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1589
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:51 pm
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Date and Number validations
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3057
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:30 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Attach YYYYMMDD to file name
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1589
Attach YYYYMMDD to file name
I am creatting a file that is captuting BAD records on a daily basis. I need to name is as FileName_YYMMDD. I cannot use the After_Job routine because that is used for creating the Log file usign the DSJobReport. I used the built in marco like this FileName_#DSJobStartDate#. But thatis creationg it ...
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:07 pm
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Date and Number validations
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3057
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:16 pm
- Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
- Topic: Date and Number validations
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3057
Date and Number validations
I have a job that loads data from a SEQ file to Ora table. While loading I need to check the following conditions for Date and Number columns: 1. If its a valid date, then insert the value else set it to NULL 2. If its a valid number, then insert the value else set it to NULL. Implementing them is n...