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Geospatial data types?

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:50 am
by rdy
I cannot find any information about DataStage support for Geospatial data types, such as shape files, coordinates, etc.

Has anyone used DataStage for this purpose?

Re: Geospatial data types?

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:43 am
by ogmios
DataStage does not even support CLOBs or LOBs, only the "BASIC" things.

Ogmios

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:55 pm
by roy
Hi,
Ogmios is right.
the only thing I can think of regarding this is that if you can do it with a client of your DB you can create, using DS, the sql statement and send it to your DB ( might need to transfer the data file/s to the DB server ) or invoke the client software utilities to perform the task from your DS server if possible.

IHTH,

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:34 pm
by ray.wurlod
If you think about it, there's no valid "transformation" you would do with these data types.
DataStage can move them, but only if they're encoded into a text stream first. But why would you use DataStage just to move things, when FTP is so much cheaper and, some would argue, simpler?