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Hi all, 2 questions: 1) Can I store some key/value pairs as metadata? Or a broad question would be...can I store any type of custom object in metadata? 2) If (1) is possible, how do I retrieve the same using java code in a java transformer stage? Please guide me on the same. If possible please refer...

Hi Ray, My requirement is as follows: Some of the attributes/columns in my input file can span multiple lines(i.e. it has a line feed). And I should read them as is and transfer to another system. If I remove the line feeds, then I wont be serving the purpose. Any other suggestions? Regards, Deepak

Hi,

I used Force compile when I used to get an error saying "Lock is not available", when using the regular compile option.
Surprisingly, I was the only person using the DS server at the time.

Hi Ray,

There is a line feed after Z. But shouldn't DS ignore that and consider Z as the delimiter?

[quote="ray.wurlod"]Is the record delimiter (that you have shown as "Z") also a linefeed? ...[/quote]

Hi,

I checked with the od utility. There are no characters after Val except line feed. Still getting the error

Hi guys, I just tried the folowing input: Col0|val0,Col1|Val ue1Z Here Z is the record de-limiter and comma is the value delimeter. I get the error: Sequential_File_1,0: Delimiter for field "Value" not found; input: {Col1|Val} But if I give the folowing input, it works. i.e all in the same...

Hi guys, I have a txt file which contains many records. Many of these records span multiple lines(i.e there can be line feed char). eg: 111, "I work on Datastage" How can read one such record using the sequential file stage in Parallel job? Another issue is that these multi-line fields can...

Hi all, Is there any way I can generate the xml for a datastage job and then import it into my environment? The requirement is that different jobs need to be generated for different user needs at runtime. For eg, I may not need the transformer stage on some condition provided by the user at runtime....

Hi all, Is there any way I can generate the xml for a datastage job and then import it into my environment? The requirement is that different jobs need to be generated for different user needs at runtime. For eg, I may not need the transformer stage on some condition provided by the user at runtime....