How can I represent a multi-valued column?
Array of values in a single field.
Basically can i decalre an Array kind of thing?
Thanks in Advance.
multi-valued column
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Hello Poorna76,
In DataStage BASIC programs or derivations a multvalue is always represented as a string of unspecified length, with the fields, values & subvalues separated by special characters. So you don't need to do any special defining in order to get a multivalue string; you don't need to declare an array. There are many DataStage function which will process such a multivalue string that are detailed in the .PDF documentation files. If this doesn't answer you question then please explain what you were thinking of doing with the multivalues and I'm sure someone will provide insight.
In DataStage BASIC programs or derivations a multvalue is always represented as a string of unspecified length, with the fields, values & subvalues separated by special characters. So you don't need to do any special defining in order to get a multivalue string; you don't need to declare an array. There are many DataStage function which will process such a multivalue string that are detailed in the .PDF documentation files. If this doesn't answer you question then please explain what you were thinking of doing with the multivalues and I'm sure someone will provide insight.
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