Run px on windows

acool · Post by **acool** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:12 am

Hi Everyone,

I am going through the Datastage PX e-training. I have installed PX on my PC ( the OS is Windows 2000 professional), it seems that I can only build and compile PX jobs, but not running them. My questions is, does PX run on windows, or is there any extra work I need to do to make PX runable. such as installing a C++ complier.

Thanks.

kcbland · Post by **kcbland** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:15 am

There is no PX for Windows.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:16 am

kcbland · Post by **kcbland** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:40 am

There's also no warp-drive engine, time travel machine, or cure for the common cold.

Yet.

Really helps out the here and now, don't it?

roml · Post by **roml** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:01 pm

kcbland wrote:There's also no warp-drive engine, time travel machine, or cure for the common cold.

Yet.

Really helps out the here and now, don't it?

It is on its way... another few weeks and it should be in GA...

It is good... It is fast... and... it does work!... rock solid

It will only be for 7.5 for now... no Eagle in sight...

Yet.

dsxdev · Post by **dsxdev** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:59 pm

px for windows has not come.
If it comes it can be installed on a OS which supports multple cpu architeture only.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:28 pm

kcbland wrote:There's also no warp-drive engine, time travel machine, or cure for the common cold.

Patience, Buckaroo. As noted, it's not all that far off.

kcbland · Post by **kcbland** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:26 pm

While grid computing (Seti@Home) is cool, I have a hard time imagining this type of processing paradigm being used. That's what PX on Windoze will ultimately be like, grid computing.

PX is great in that you can harness a handful of servers, both SMP and MPP, to leverage all technologies to move the data. But, I can't see someone setting a handful of NT multi-cpu servers and using PX on them. Those machines are not built on hardware (network, disks, memory) that support such intensive style computing.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not waiting anxiously for PX on Windoze, other than for the ability to develop jobs platform independent. It's tough to work on PX jobs without being connected to a PX server.

PX on Windoze to me is like a super-sonic golf cart. Yes, it really cool and technologically amazing, but would you use it? If all you can afford is Wintel technology, how can a half million dollar tool be considered a good expenditure? Your tool cost vastly more than your server technology when the server technology and the application architecture and data model are grossly more important factors. Just my opinion.