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by datastagedw
Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:43 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: reading and writing to the same table
Replies: 3
Views: 15649

reading and writing to the same table

hello all, I have a requirement where in I have to use a oracle table for change capture before link and after that doing some transformation and ultimately loading to the same oracle table. Does it cause any performance issue , using the same table to read and write. I read one article in dsxchange...
by datastagedw
Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:39 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: reading millions of records
Replies: 10
Views: 5595

hello all, I am still looking for some help for this topic. can anyone throw some more light.Can i do it in 2 jobs, like loading into a dataset first and then in a seperate job loading from dataset to oracle. does this help. because the DBA is not so happy dropping the indexes. i tried the options a...
by datastagedw
Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:13 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: reading millions of records
Replies: 10
Views: 5595

hello, Thanks once again. Yes I did try the $APT_ORACLE_LOAD_OPTIONS. I set the ROWS= 50000 or so.but it really does not work . I have tried the direct=true and parallel=true also. Anyway let me check with UNRECOVERABLE option that you suggested. One thing I would like to mention. There is index men...
by datastagedw
Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:06 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: reading millions of records
Replies: 10
Views: 5595

hello, thanks for the ideas. well the target has index on some of the columns. source does not have any indices. I am using "load" and "append" method for loading into the target. this is a one time load into the target which does not have any records at all. I have tried the opt...
by datastagedw
Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:57 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: reading millions of records
Replies: 10
Views: 5595

hello, thanks for the ideas. well the target has index on some of the columns. source does not have any indices. I am using "load" and "append" method for loading into the target. this is a one time load into the target which does not have any records at all. I have tried the opt...
by datastagedw
Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:08 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: reading millions of records
Replies: 10
Views: 5595

reading millions of records

hello all, I have about 100 million records in an oracle table. i am trying to read it by using oracle enterprise stage. My job is quite simple, reading data from oracle followed by transformer , surrogate key generator stage and then loading into oracle again. i am using oracle enterprise stage onc...
by datastagedw
Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:39 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: fixed width files
Replies: 1
Views: 983

fixed width files

hello, Well i have a doubt since long. There is something I am not very sure about the fixed width files. i have searched dsxchange regarding the same but could not find the exact answer. the problem/confusion is regarding reading fixed width files. If i have a fixed width file with total record len...
by datastagedw
Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:26 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: NULL value in DECIMAL fields
Replies: 6
Views: 3910

Re: NULL value in DECIMAL fields

Hi, We have 5 sequential files getting joined using Left outer join. Only the master record has the data and no child record is having data. But when the data is coming out from the JOIN stage is displaying 0 values into the decimal fileds that are coming from the child records. Where as our requir...
by datastagedw
Fri May 16, 2008 3:15 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: server to parallel function
Replies: 1
Views: 1082

server to parallel function

Hello, I have the following function in server job: iconv(column_name,"MX") I went through some documentation to understand that it basically converts the number from decimal to hexadecimal. is ther any equivalent function we can use in the transformer stage.However the incoming columns is...
by datastagedw
Wed May 07, 2008 10:35 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: warnings --- floating point
Replies: 2
Views: 1303

warnings --- floating point

hello, I have an issue here. I am doing a sql query from oracle enterprise stage.Here i am using some aggregate functions like count(*),sum(colmn1). Its meta data is defined as integer in the job. its throwing errors like floating point error. i dont hv the exact error message with me right now i wa...
by datastagedw
Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:16 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: LOG file & datastage job viewing in aix
Replies: 12
Views: 19477

Re: LOG file & datastage job viewing in aix

hi there,


even i had a similar dobt regd this.so ultimately where do we have to run this command. is it the path where the project is installed or where the DSEngine is there.

thanks
by datastagedw
Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:39 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: regd ORAOCI and OES
Replies: 5
Views: 1967

OES? Are you using Oracle's Express Edition? As far as I know, that is either not supported or known to not work. :? I suspect 'xrmigrator' is a typo. ... hello chulett, well sorry for the misunderstanding. what i mean by OES is Oracle enterprise stage. the xmigrator is tool used for migrating jobs...
by datastagedw
Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:34 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: regd ORAOCI and OES
Replies: 5
Views: 1967

What is xrmigrator? View Data works differently in server and parallel jobs. It always displays the decimal placeholder character in the parallel version, as well as adding leading and trailing ze ... hello ray, thanks once again for your quick response. well xmigrator is the tool that the team mem...
by datastagedw
Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:32 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: regd ORAOCI and OES
Replies: 5
Views: 1967

What is xrmigrator? View Data works differently in server and parallel jobs. It always displays the decimal placeholder character in the parallel version, as well as adding leading and trailing ze ... hello ray, thanks once again for your quick response. well xmigrator is the tool that the team mem...
by datastagedw
Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:58 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: regd ORAOCI and OES
Replies: 5
Views: 1967

regd ORAOCI and OES

hello, i am doing some migration jobs from server to parallel(7.5.2)I have a ORAOCI stage in server and after using xrmigrator i have the OES in the parallel version of the job. Now the table has some number fields which are read as decimals in both of these stages but when i do viewdatea in server ...