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bah. "touch" does the job.

DataStage 5.2 is NOT supported on W2k3. Usually, Ascential hold back their support when they have one of the following 2 situations: 1. It was never tested on that platform. 2. There are well known problems with that platform for that version. Nuff said. I strongly recommends upgrading to 7.5.1 when...

I would not recommend using the DB2 Enterprise stage. For one thing, if you run it on multiple nodes, there's no real control on the before-stage/after-stage routines, and it get run multiple times. This may be the actual cause of your weird behavior. Suggestion: Use Before-Job and After-Job to call...

EVERYONE! Pay attention. APT_CombinedOperatorController,0: Field 'field name' from input dataset '0' is NULL. Record dropped. If you are getting the above message, you are NOT programming correctly in DataStage EE. This is NOT a case of... It's quite common and we used to get this warning in our job...

Are you attempting to run several jobs calling the same container?

There may be a bug with Director. What version of DataStage are you using exactly? When you show the log, are you "Filter Entries" to the last previous run? Try View | Show All if the above is the case. You can also view the job running on the command line (Do a "ps -ef |grep [usernam...

With DataStage Enterprise Edition, you are now responsible for one of the most powerful tools created by people who originally invented the Thinking Machines. That idea failed due to lack of software, so they went into software. Ascential is now trying to reduce the amount of work you need to be abl...

DataStage can run without any invocation of shell scripts by yourself. They do create their own internal shell scripts (particularly in EE -- take a look at what code is produced in the project folder). However, if you try to edit those files, Bad Things [tm] will happen. There are situations where ...

DataStage (especially with EE) are VERY solid with their memory usage. Memory leaks are VERY rare out in the field, and jobs could practically run for years if you let it. However, do pay attention to what Ray said. Do you REALLY want to let DataStage, a pure ETL box, to handle scheduling duties? Wh...

Warning: Import consumed only 107bytes of the record's 109 bytes (no further warnings will be generated from this partition) Ensure that your metadata compromise of 109 bytes. DataStage is trying to read in all the way to the new record toggle (newline), and noticed that there's 2 extra bytes unacc...

Rule #1: Read DSXchange. Rule #2: Use search. Rule #3: Ask questions. Rule #4-#10: Bow to me. :lol: Seriously, this is something you can ask Ascential to provide a copy of. We have our own perspectives of how things should be done. Ken Bland can attest to that! But above all, we all learns from our ...

Actually, it depends on the compiler itself. One user may actually means one usage at a time.

In other words, only 1 C code is compiled at a time.

You would notice an improvement on compile time if you reduce/eliminate transformers. However, runtime benefits may hurt.

Do not use the standard C libraries.

Use the Orchestrate API libraries. APT_String, et cetera. This will help a lot on garbage collections.

Bug Ascential for a copy of the Orchestrate manuals.

Did you "distribute_component" the library?

Are you using AIX? If so, there is a memory limitation issue you have to deal with. Read this: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.doc/aixprggd/genprogc/lrg_prg_support.htm There are a number of solutions for the above problem. If you are using other generic...