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by LRenwick
Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:57 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Problem with Merge Stage
Replies: 7
Views: 2411

According to Ascential, this is a bug in v6.0.1 which is fixed in v6.0.2 and all later releases. Can you guess which version I am working with? I have found a workaround though. I've replaced on the of the sequential files with a hash file and am using a lookup to combine the 2 sets of data. Not as ...
by LRenwick
Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:40 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Problem with Merge Stage
Replies: 7
Views: 2411

Saravanan There is one column that has null values and it is set to nullable everywhere it appears. Roy This is a job that was built by a contractor who was brought in to work on a number of things and has never been tested up to now, so as far as I know, it has never worked. I tried rebuiding the m...
by LRenwick
Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:01 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Problem with Merge Stage
Replies: 7
Views: 2411

Saravanan, Thanks for the quick response!

The join is a "Pure Inner Join".
I have checked the files and there are no nulls in the key column in either file.
by LRenwick
Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:17 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Problem with Merge Stage
Replies: 7
Views: 2411

Problem with Merge Stage

Hello, I'm getting a problem with a job that starts with a merge stage. The Merge is on 2 text files that are created by other jobs run earlier in a sequence. The 2 text files exist and contain the appropriate data. The error appears in the log as follows: Event: Starting Job PIniMedStage4.1. (...) ...
by LRenwick
Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:46 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Merge Stage
Replies: 9
Views: 3295

I am also getting this error. I have checked the permissions on the directories and files. I can view the data in the 2 files from the job that creates them and it looks like it should. The key columns for the merge are not null. Any help or advice would be much appreciated, I've run out of ideas! T...