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In documentation I've read that there is BASIC Tr stage in DS PX.

But... I can't see it in DS Designer.

Platform - Windows XP.

Help.

Anka

Silly question, but if it's not there, are you sure you are running PX? I thought it was still in 'beta' for Windows. The other confusion is PX for Windows only runs on what - Windows Server 2003? - XP is not a supported platform for any product other than the client, as far as I know.

On Solaris system there isn't too.
How can you explain that?

akrzy,

it is there, but not in the graphical list! In the designer, go to "customize palette", find the "BASIC transformer" in the list and add it to your palette list.

Ok,
I am blind.
I'm ashamed.

I 've found
Thanks.

akrzy - no reason to be ashamed, I think that Ascential did an excellent job of hiding it. And with reason, as it doesn't really fit into the PX design paradigm and won't scale with the rest of the product. But I must admit that I do have it on my palette as well

One more question,
Why it doesn't fit to PX?
I've read that it works for SMP system.

Since the PX transfer mechanism stays outside of the DataStage engine then by using a Basic Transform you would have to convert the data going in and then again when going back out to Px. This overhead outweighs the benefits for large volumes. Since each node of a Px job would get it's own copy of UniVerse in it's virtual memory space it also adds a lot of memory overhead (although the OS is good at splitting between clean & dirty pages it stills needs a distinct copy for all pids). And should Ascential, at some point in the far and distant future, decide to disassociate the UniVerse/DataStage server engine from the Px product anyone using the BASIC stages would be, well, "SOL".

I am sure that I've missed a number of other reasons, but these two are the deciding ones for me. And I've been working with the nitty-gritty details of the engine since the early 80's so it's very difficult for me NOT to use a BASIC stage when working with PX but even dinosaurs need to evolve or die out

I've got PX running on Windows 2000. It may not be certified but it's just an eval version and I'm guessing it will also run on XP. If you were rolling out a production system you would want to stick to Windows 2003. Many people are using the BASIC transformer to re-use routines. I suggest you keep it in a server job instead of a parallel job and if the data volume grows so large that you need to parallel it then rewrite it in a parallel transformer.

ArndW wrote:akrzy,

it is there, but not in the graphical list! In the designer, go to "customize palette", find the "BASIC transformer" in the list and add it to your palette list.

Hi,

I'm using DS 7.1r2 PX , when i'm trying to add BASIC tramsformer to my palette through customization, it is not available in the list itself.
Can anyone help me in this?

Regards,
Eastman

Hi,
You can find it under "Stage type", "Parallel", "Processing" in customize pallet.

regards
kumar

hi,

you can find it in the Repository browser in the Designer

Stage Types/Parallel/Processing

The use of this stage is NOT recommended