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by ameyvaidya
Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:56 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to achieve date
Replies: 13
Views: 6102

Re: Conver to date and use Function

Hi Rao, Iam getting an error like this when I used your logic APT_CombinedOperatorController,0: Caught exception from runLocally(): APT_ParseError: Parsing parameters "**********" for conversion "date=date_from_days_since[**********](int32)": APT_Conversion_Date_DaysSince: Inval...
by ameyvaidya
Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:38 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Question in Job Sequence
Replies: 14
Views: 4155

There is another type of trigger that could be handy: The "Otherwise" trigger.
Instead of the 3 triggers,

You could run a "Failed" and an "Otherwise" trigger. from JobActivity1.

IHTH,
by ameyvaidya
Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:22 pm
Forum: Enhancement Wish List
Topic: Document Enhancement for Functions
Replies: 11
Views: 8381

by ameyvaidya
Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:11 pm
Forum: Enhancement Wish List
Topic: Document Enhancement for Functions
Replies: 11
Views: 8381

Functions to be used with Transformers are listed( i mean it literally.. no detailed descriptions or examples) in the Parallel Job Developers Guide in Appendix B(Page 1092). Function to be used with the Modify Stage are not present anywhere in the DataStage Documentation. The ones that are listed to...
by ameyvaidya
Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:55 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Function docs other than Parallel Job Developer's Guide
Replies: 2
Views: 1383

Hi Chris, That info is buried deep in the guide in Appendix B(page 1091 of 1130). The examples and complete descriptions are non-existent but atleast you have a list of supported arguments and return values. It's not very good but thats all there is(Best way is to build a small test job and figure o...
by ameyvaidya
Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:47 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Concatination of Date and Time
Replies: 4
Views: 2096

Hi Ratan,
If you ned to generate a Timestamp from DATE and TIME fields, Read up on the

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TimestampFromDateTime
Function on Page 1092 of the Parallel Job Developers Guide.

IHTH
by ameyvaidya
Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:43 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: multiple files into a single seq file???
Replies: 8
Views: 3948

Hi Usha, The Sequential File Stage supports Reading both a Single file and multiple files (Given a file pattern). Property to look for is: Read Method, specify whether to read specific files (the default) or all files whose name fits a pattern. Parjdev.pdf Page 144 The Caveat here is that all files ...
by ameyvaidya
Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:53 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Regarding sorting data before joining
Replies: 4
Views: 1644

What do you mean by "sequential sort"? What i meant was that the Sort stage can work in both sequential mode and parallel Mode. while the on-link sort, as it has to work on partitioned data, can't. I dont recollect if on-link sorting is available on the Input of stages running in Sequenti...
by ameyvaidya
Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:43 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Regarding sorting data before joining
Replies: 4
Views: 1644

2 more:
1 For large data set sizes (>20 MB) the Sort Stage is better.

2 <:?: >I dont believe the On-Link Sort can do a sequential sort.. </:?: >
by ameyvaidya
Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:53 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Handling rejected rows
Replies: 12
Views: 4272

kumar_s wrote: Yes it is often difficult to get these in right position.
Good Ol' Notepad (Font:Courier) is my preferred Canvas. The rest is just copy and Paste. :wink:
by ameyvaidya
Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:49 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Lookup from delimited sequential file
Replies: 9
Views: 4469

I was going through the Plug-in Documentation of the Row Splitter Stage and found that it has a capability of generating the desired splitting up of multi-value columns into seperate rows. I could not try this.. (No access to DataStage). but the way to go would be Src---------->Transformer------->Ro...
by ameyvaidya
Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:28 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Pass yesterday's date as parameter
Replies: 9
Views: 3274

Hi Om,

Wrap Kumar's Function call in ereplace like:

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EREPLACE(Oconv(Date()-1,"DMDY[2,2,4]"),' ','')
to replace all spaces to Empty Strings.
by ameyvaidya
Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:05 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Handling rejected rows
Replies: 12
Views: 4272

Try This: JanOnlyHashedFile | | | |[RefLink] | Jan&FebSrcFile--------> Transformer------------------------------------>Output1 | |[Only Feb Constraint: IsNull(<RefLink>.<AnyColumn>)] |-------------------------------------------->Output2 Output 1 Will have All Account Numbers. Output 2 will have ...
by ameyvaidya
Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:08 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Return Value from BAPI
Replies: 1
Views: 675

Hi, Please refer to this Link: <a href="http://dsxchange.com/viewtopic.php?t=93374&highlight=bapi+return+table&sid=5f3c0c188320dac8b59ea5114f39fa6a"> LINK</a> Basically If the BAPI is being used for Input the return table parameter(which is usually an output parameter) is treated b...
by ameyvaidya
Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Cleanse/Confirm Question ?
Replies: 25
Views: 8020

But I'm checking for this qualification using the stage variables. I should have the run the job and checked the output. Anyways, Do you think that this design will fail?? Thanks, Naveen. Hi Naveen, The issue with this is that multiple columns per row need to be translated using the reference table...