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by NickH
Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:20 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Add years to Date
Replies: 5
Views: 2981

Re: Add years to Date

Hello, I want to add 100 years for the TimeStamp. How to do it? Thought of adding days, but is there any other way to do this? Thanks in advance. Naidu Buddha Probably the most simplistic approach is (DSJobStartTimestamp[1,4]+100):DSJobStartTimestamp[15] replace DSJobStartTimestamp with whatever yo...
by NickH
Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:42 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Previous Weekday From Date
Replies: 9
Views: 9299

Hi, Probably not as nice a solution as Ray's but the following will do what you want Create a Function DateOfMostRecentWeekDay(DateIn,DayOfWeek) ***************************************************** * * Will give the date of the most recent weekday to the date * ie if Friday and current date is 28/1...
by NickH
Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:56 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: split a string
Replies: 11
Views: 7205

Simply use Input1[1,3]:' ':Input1[4,LEN(Input1)-3] That's if your input data is to be ALWAYS split with 3 characters in the first word followed by a space and rest of the characters. What is your criteria for splitting a word into 2? The criteria was implied that the split happened between the 3rd ...
by NickH
Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:10 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: split a string
Replies: 11
Views: 7205

If you want to execute the substring operation through transformer then below is an example what you can refer. Input1 - column name expression in the transformer stage expression editor. Input1[1,3] note: 1 is the starting position and 3 is the string length. if your Input1 data is "SUBSTRING...
by NickH
Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: NLS SETTINGS?
Replies: 5
Views: 2675

Re: NLS SETTINGS?

You could use the oracle date format RR instead of YY
as in TO_DATE(date,'DD-MM-RR')

I believe it was set up to cope with the transiton between centuries.
by NickH
Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:00 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Commas in data value...How to fix the existing file ?
Replies: 5
Views: 1894

Re: Commas in data value...How to fix ?

You could do the seperation in datastage if you wanted. Read the file in with file delimeter 000 quote delimeter 000. Then use the Count($,',')="Correct Number Of Commas" in a constraint and write the results out, with file delimeter 000 quote delimeter 000. You can put the invalid records...