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by dsxdev
Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:12 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Simultaneous reading of a dataset
Replies: 2
Views: 1877

Hi

Rightly said by Ray it may be possible to read same Dataset by two different jobs if you specify same processing nodes This is necessary because Data in Dataset recides on Nodes.
by dsxdev
Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:07 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Dataset vs Sequential file
Replies: 8
Views: 5104

I had simailar kind of problem.
The issue could with the metadata. Are you able read the data in the first job properly.
by dsxdev
Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:03 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: problem with funnel
Replies: 2
Views: 1820

problem with funnel

Hi I three Datasets from which I am reading data , Dataset A, Dataset B and Dataset C. I am generating a Dummy Column. These three datasets have output to three Column Generators which generate the Dummy column value as 1, 2 and 3 for rows coming from Datasets A,B and C respectively. Records from th...
by dsxdev
Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:01 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: issue when using Funnel Stage
Replies: 0
Views: 435

issue when using Funnel Stage

Hi I three Datasets from which I am reading data , Dataset A, Dataset B and Dataset C. I am generating a Dummy Column. These three datasets have output to three Column Generators which generate the Dummy column value as 1, 2 and 3 for rows coming from Datasets A,B and C respectively. Records from th...
by dsxdev
Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:51 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Stage Variables
Replies: 3
Views: 1534

What is NextBuisnessDay? Do you mean that if the date is any weak day other than Saturday and Sunday then it is a BuisnessDay In that case you can do on thing 1900-01-01 is monday. So you can use the code Mod(DaysSinceFromDate(InputDate, "1900-01-01"),7) Now based on the Mod value you can ...
by dsxdev
Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:24 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Upsert problem
Replies: 4
Views: 2064

You can do a look up just before inserting and use only those records which fail to match in the lookup Stage this would solve the issue of duplicates.
by dsxdev
Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:20 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Previous Record Values
Replies: 4
Views: 2305

Rigthly said you can use Stage variables to hold prevoius record's value and use it in current record. Stage variable are caluculated in the order they are defined.If you set default value for a stage variable you avoid teh @INROWNUM also

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If (InLink.ColName <> svPrevValue) Then 1 Else 0
by dsxdev
Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:14 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: rolling forward of date
Replies: 5
Views: 1332

If you are looking at incrementing the date you can you functions available in transformer You can get days between two dates and add appropriate multiple of ther frequency and get the date back. let us see for quarterly(90days) DateFromDaysSince(90-Mod(DaysSinceFromDate(Date1,Date2),90),Date2) Step...
by dsxdev
Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:43 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DataSet
Replies: 5
Views: 2978

Hi, With Datasets you have the advantage of parllellism in reading and writing. Though you have the option of multiple readers in sequential file, there you cannot yuo vriablelength columns. You have to use fixed length columns. By using datasets you have advantage of multiple nodes reading use vari...
by dsxdev
Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:46 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Modify Stage
Replies: 5
Views: 3316

What are different functionalities of a modify Stage.

Hi,
When do we use a modify Stage anmd what are its features?
Apart from changing the data type droping or adding columns,
what else can we achieve through Modify Stage?
by dsxdev
Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:15 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Join / Lookup Stage Reject Link
Replies: 7
Views: 9101

Hi When you have a join or lookup with only one output link ( matched and unmatched records come in same link) you can identify these records by fetching a not null field from the reference link. If you have any such column, then it should be made nullable yes on the output link. Then on the output ...
by dsxdev
Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to get integer output from Aggregater ?
Replies: 4
Views: 2378

In general DS treats all default numeric vales as decimals.
In Aggregator Stage output is always decimal. If you really want an Integer result you may have to type cat the result to Integer.
by dsxdev
Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:22 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: manuals required to know about more Unix commands of DS
Replies: 2
Views: 1345

manuals required to know about more Unix commands of DS

Hi can anybody suggest some place where to find manuals or data on the list of Unix commands that can be run on DS like

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 dsjob -run -mode ...., dsrecords ,....etc 
Any help would be greatful.[/code]
by dsxdev
Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:12 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Spliting two colums into two rows
Replies: 3
Views: 1926

You can check the RowSPlit Stage in server canvas.
Pivot Stage will convert columns to rows.
by dsxdev
Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:24 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: issues with StringToDecimal function.
Replies: 4
Views: 6775

This can be done at any point but why does this happen is my question. and if we get any such messages how to know where the problem is