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by Ultramundane
Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:22 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Space problem
Replies: 6
Views: 2064

Hi Chulett, Thanks a lot for ur reply. We are having 800+ jobs and at present we are having 20GB. So will you please suggest me how max would be the memory space. Thanks for the help. Regards, Raji 20GB? Is the 20GB also being used by developers to store files? Run a find command and find all files...
by Ultramundane
Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:09 pm
Forum: Enhancement Wish List
Topic: dsjob parm values
Replies: 1
Views: 2823

Re: dsjob parm values

The parameters that are specified for dsjob can be read using ps -ef prior to the command shifting the arguments. They can be had by running a loop looking for passwords. Please allow dsjob to read the parameters directly from a file containing the parameters. Also allow for a section seperator to ...
by Ultramundane
Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:37 am
Forum: Enhancement Wish List
Topic: dsjob parm values
Replies: 1
Views: 2823

dsjob parm values

The parameters that are specified for dsjob can be read using ps -ef prior to the command shifting the arguments. They can be had by running a loop looking for passwords. Please allow dsjob to read the parameters directly from a file containing the parameters. Also allow for a section seperator to l...
by Ultramundane
Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:41 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Job geting hanged
Replies: 12
Views: 3514

Re: Problem is still there..not resolved.

ramank1981 wrote:we are using AIX 5.3. it still seems like a resource problem, no further clue.
You could be running into the fifo_open problem. This caused us a lot of job hangs. There is patch for the AIX kernel to address this issue. The patch is: IY86253

I think you can google the patch.
by Ultramundane
Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: AIX vs Linux for DataStage
Replies: 3
Views: 2266

Re: AIX vs Linux for DataStage

Our company is planning to move DataStage installation from Windows platform. As a target platform AIX and Linux are been discussed. Apparently Linux is cheaper and if we are not missing much comparing with AIX, then Linux it will be. I am trying to make a case for AIX, but I do not know the facts....
by Ultramundane
Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:47 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Job geting hanged
Replies: 12
Views: 3514

I checked the DB2 stage, there is no hung process of DB2. Stange part is that we ran the same job with same source , same target 2 days back and the job was completed in few seconds. But now the job is hanging ... What OS and version? Just curious, because AIX has a patch to fix fifo thread intermi...
by Ultramundane
Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:41 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Job geting hanged
Replies: 12
Views: 3514

Re: Job geting hanged

Hi , I am facing a strange problem. I am running one job with sequential file as source and Db2 as target with some transformations in between. Problem is that sometimes the job runs fine and populates data in target table, but on other day the same job gets hanged and keeps on runing until i go an...
by Ultramundane
Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:59 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job parameter in where clause of ODBC stage query (DS Server
Replies: 3
Views: 2649

Re: Job parameter in where clause of ODBC stage query (DS Se

I have created a job parameter name "dnm". I need to use the parameter in a count query ...in the ODBC stage (Sql server 05). select count(deptno) from emp where dname = acct. I want to parameterizet the deptno like.. select count(deptno) from emp where dname = '#dnm#'; (even tried "...
by Ultramundane
Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:35 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Sql Server and ODBC
Replies: 1
Views: 738

Re: Sql Server and ODBC

In my tool palette i do not see a plug in or a stage which can access sql server other than ODBC enterprise. Iam using ODBC stage instead for my job designs. As of now i do not see any issue with ODBC stage however what difference it makes accessing a sql server DB using a plugin? You are on Unix? ...
by Ultramundane
Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DSJob command to a variable
Replies: 4
Views: 3831

Re: DSJob command to a variable

Hi I am doing one script in which am trying to put the linfo i.e the number of records of a file into log file so what i did was i did the ds job command and did a grep and cut command to get the num of records and here is my command dsjob -linkinfo Projectname Jobanme stagename Linkname | grep 'Li...
by Ultramundane
Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:48 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DSJob command to a variable
Replies: 4
Views: 3831

Re: DSJob command to a variable

Hi I am doing one script in which am trying to put the linfo i.e the number of records of a file into log file so what i did was i did the ds job command and did a grep and cut command to get the num of records and here is my command dsjob -linkinfo Projectname Jobanme stagename Linkname | grep 'Li...
by Ultramundane
Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:27 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Shell script not kicking off
Replies: 1
Views: 920

Re: Shell script not kicking off

Hello, We are scheduling DataStage jobs from Crontab (Shell Script ).I have made entry in crontab to run script at perticular time but It is not executing. what can be the reason ? However I can execute the same manually. Thanks for your time. 1. User Error 2. Cron daemon not running 3. Environment...
by Ultramundane
Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:07 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Warnings for decimal fields
Replies: 18
Views: 12584

Yes. And, that error is a big deal. I had IBM fix many corruption issues with decimals. There are several patches which can be installed to fix the issues. It is shame that IBM doesn't know how to inform customers of critical bugs in their products. do u know where to find the patch? thx before... ...
by Ultramundane
Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:39 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Decimal calculations
Replies: 14
Views: 11046

Folks... Did I mention a database ? the job is a row generator to give me a row to process nothing more. then a transformer with 3 stage variables 2 with hardcoded values and a peek output for the 3 stage variables. it's a mock up of what i have in a real job, in an attempt to isolate the problem. ...
by Ultramundane
Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:29 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Warnings for decimal fields
Replies: 18
Views: 12584

Any bug that can cause my data to become corrupt is critical to me. I also consider it neglect when they find critical bugs and don't inform customers. Especially when they already have the fixes. When a bug exists that can cause the datastage world corruption, I cannot imagine that not being critic...