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Hi Sriram , Shared containers help you to simplify your design but, unlike local containers, they are reusable by other jobs. You can use shared containers to make common job components available throughout the project. You can create a shared container from a stage and associated meta data and add ...

hi I tried a lot to get a combine records stage workking. I just can't figure out the idea given in the documentation. Well, i did get the idea that it combines records from the input link based on the key fields specified, but cannot digest this idea of sub-records and all that. I did try it out an...

Dear chulet When i said 'technically', i meant that if the same file is used both as the source and the target, a job compilation wouldn't result in an error. In fact, I meant to say exactly what u said. 'In isolation'. But when the OS handles the file streams and one of the files is opened in overw...

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Can somebody tell me what a phantom output file is ?

Hi Arnd.. Actually I wanted some characters... Of course, now I understand the stupidity I'd asked....Of course when I specified binary data to be generated, to the row generator the data generated is simply binary, fully randon of course...That, I accept was a stupid question....sorry. I dunno why ...

Hi Premila, The same file can in fact be the source and target, technically no matter at the reject link or output link. The file update mode should rather be append. But the whole affair depends on ur OS. If the update mode is Overwrite, when the seq file object opens the file, the data may be lost...

Hi I'm having a problem with the Import Column Stage. When I import data from a sequential file with one of the columns being binary, to a varchar or char column in the output, I'm getting unintelligible text. I'm able to view the output link data, but the imported column contains junk data. The ini...

hi Surrogate keys come into use usually in 'Type 2' category of jobs. These type jobs are those used to handle historcal data. For eg, say someone's address changes, and we need to keep the old address also in the data warehouse. But now the problem is that this row with the old data cannot be kept ...

hi Arnd
Actually wot i wanted 2 know was....why a mainframe job in the first place. I got to know that mainframe job was one of the the three types(Parallel, Server and Mainframe jobs). Is it that these jobs are designed and run on a mainframe? and not on other systems ? I think I got the picture.

What does COBOL compilers have to do with mainframe jobs ?

what does that have to do with obtaining the data from somethn like a DB2 database on a mainframe ?

what does that have to do with obtaining the data from somethn like a DB2 database on a mainframe ?

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Why should a mainframe job be compiled and run on a mainframe while server and parallel jobs can be compiled and run on a DS server ?

Hi Ray
Yes....drop output=False means keep...and thats why I've kept it. I've kept the output...but it still doesn't show. Anyways...I've tried the other way round also....didn't get it right...cud u pls try it ?

What are "edit and copy" changes as relevant to change capture stage... Is it changes to any column values. If it is so, then there appears to be a problem. It is not capturing changes made to any columns...And change code 0 stands for copy if I'm right. Is it ? Is copy just the copy of th...