DSXchange

Hi thanks for reading and I appreciate your time!!!

Datastage PX version 7.0

I'm wondering how I can override the global value in the APT_STRING_PADCHAR at a job level using the job parameter. When I try to bring in the APT_STRING_PADCHAR into my job and assign a new value it doesn't keep the new value instead it defaults back to the value in the APT_STRING_PADCHAR located in the Datsateg Administrator variable list. Does anyone know how to make the APT_STRING_PADCHAR dynamic instead of static?

Hi,

We also had the same problem regarding this APT_STRING_PADCHAR.. But Ascential has solved the problem with version 7.0.1.\

Regards
Amitava

We are using Datastage 7.1 EE with parallel extender.
We don't have the problem you have mentioned. In the job parameters, this environmental variable is used and the default value can be changed by us. I am not sure whether it is corrected in 7.1 or some setting is changed by our Datastage administrator.

Anyone has idea on this??

if your padchar is not working , u can use one of the parallel extender function to correct that. The name of the function is like
padcharstring


Siva Gogineni

Hi

May i ask where this problem is happening? I ask because "usually" the pad character becomes an issue in the sequential stage, and there is an option in that stage to over-ride the default padchar. Do you have any value in here? Or maybe you need a value in there?

regards
L