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Hi

I have recently joined an IT firm.

Currently iam supposed to work with Ascential datstage,
I need to create a job which has sequential file(.csv) as input and need to get a .xml file as output.

Iam a newbie to ascential datasatge.
plz let me know in detail how to start and what to do

Thanks...

Welcome aboard. :D

The first thing to do is to post your question in the correct forum. This forum is so that you can tell the world how great (or bad) you believe this site (DSXchange) to be.

The second thing you need to do is to get some training. The vendor (IBM) offers standard classes on which your employer should enrol you. There are also some third party providers of DataStage training.

It is completely unreasonable to expect this site to do your work for you, as I'm sure you understand. For example, do you know enough about DataStage even to understand a simple response such as "design a job with a Sequential File stage, a Transformer stage and an XML Writer stage, preferably with the source file directory name as a job parameter"? What about metadata management? Running under control, perhaps in a suite of other jobs? Scheduling?
Do you know enough to make an informed decision between using a parallel job (which you've specified) and a server job (which may be preferable, depending on the particular circumstances)?

perfectly agree with ray. this site can bail you out of trouble but cannot teach you how to walk.

learn how to walk and we will help you learn how to run:-)

Ok thanx 4 ur wonderful responses...

iam really sorry 4 that question
which u interpreted to be expecting the site to do my job....

Now my question is i know
i have to design a server job with sequential file as input and an XML output stage.

Also,i have loaded the .csv file
but donno how to write XPath Expressions fro the colums tab in input of the XML Output

Hope u wil help...

Thanx...

Divya,

Please find some tips w3schools+org in google.

sateesh.M

As noted early, please post your actual question over in the appropriate forum.

divya_ascential wrote: but donno how to write XPath Expressions fro the colums tab in input of the XML Output

Hi divya! I'm working with the same kind of job. To generate the Xpath definitions you would want to load your .xsd into the XMLMetaDataImporter.exe (A small stand alone program you'll find in your DataStage Folder) and create table definitions. MetaDataImporter will generate the xpaths for you.

Back in the designer I loaded the tabelldefinitions under the table definitions for your sequential file. Then I just cut and pasted the Xpath expressions on the right row in the description column. (There might be a better way to do this but it worked fine for me..

For more info, please see the XMLPACK_20_Designer.pdf availible in the same folder as you found the XMLMDImporter.exe

good luck!

Obviously, this belongs somewhere else. Any suggestions where from our experts?

I would pick server because he is on Windows but his profile also says parallel.

Based on lack of info - moved to General Forum.