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DataStage Interview Questions - 320
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1. Dimension Modelling types along with their significance Subscribe

Data Modelling is Broadly classified into 2 types. a) E-R Diagrams (Entity - Rel
atioships). b) Dimensional Modelling.
Latest Answer: Data Modeling1) E-R Diagrams2) Dimensional modeling 2.a) logical
modeling 2.b)Physical mode... Last Updated By RamaPrasad Batchu on December 19
, 2005
2. What is the flow of loading data into fact & dimensional tables? Subscribe
Fact table - Table with Collection of Foreign Keys corresponding to the Primary
Keys in Dimensional table. Consists of fields with numeric values. Dimension tab
le - Table with Unique Primary Key. Loa
Latest Answer: Here is the sequence of loading a datawarehouse.1. The source dat
a is first loading into the staging... Last Updated By srinivas vuligonda on J
anuary 13, 2006
3. Orchestrate Vs Datastage Parallel Extender? Subscribe

Orchestrate itself is an ETL tool with extensive parallel processing capabilitie
s and running on UNIX platform. Datastage used Orchestrate with Datastage XE (Be
ta version of 6.0) to incorporate the p
4. Differentiate Primary Key and Partition Key? Subscribe

Primary Key is a combination of unique and not null. It can be a collection of k
ey values called as composite primary key. Partition Key is a just a part of Pri
mary Key. There are several methods of
Latest Answer: Hi:Primary key is the key we define on the table column or set of
columns(composite pk) to make sure... Last Updated By hanug on May 06, 2007
5. How do you execute datastage job from command line prompt? Subscribe
Using "dsjob" command as follows. dsjob -run -jobstatus projectname jobname
Latest Answer: u can use dsjob executable command from unix or command line.The
previous post was correct.Hanu.... Last Updated By hanug on May 06, 2007
6. What are Stage Variables, Derivations and Constants? Subscribe

Stage Variable - An intermediate processing variable that retains value during r
ead and doesnt pass the value into target column. Derivation - Expression that s
pecifies value to be passed on to the t
Latest Answer: Hi:I dont think so previous posts are correct.The correct order i
s :1. stage variable2. derivation3.... Last Updated By hanug on May 06, 2007
7. What is the default cache size? How do you change the cache size if needed?
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Default cache size is 256 MB. We can incraese it by going into Datastage Adminis
trator and selecting the Tunable Tab and specify the cache size over there.
Latest Answer: default size is 128mb and we can change cache size in job propert
ies for particular job and by going... Last Updated By harshita on March 29, 2
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8. Containers : Usage and Types? Subscribe
Container is a collection of stages used for the purpose of Reusability. There a
re 2 types of Containers. a) Local Container: Job Specific b) Shared Container:
Used in any job within a project.
Latest Answer: Container is a collection of stages used for the purpose of Reusa
bility. There are 2 types of Contai... Last Updated By jagan nimmagadda on Jan
uary 10, 2006
9. Compare and Contrast ODBC and Plug-In stages? Subscribe

ODBC : a) Poor Performance. b) Can be used for Variety of Databases. c) Can hand
le Stored Procedures. Plug-In: a) Good Performance. b) Database specific.(Only o
ne database) c) Cannot handle Stored Pr
10. How to run a Shell Script within the scope of a Data stage job? Subscribe
By using "ExcecSH" command at Before/After job properties.
Latest Answer: Hi:Go to Job properties and choose Before or after job routine an
d choose execute shell.Hanu.... Last Updated By hanug on May 06, 2007
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11. Types of Parallel Processing? Subscribe
Parallel Processing is broadly classified into 2 types. a) SMP - Symmetrical Mul
ti Processing. b) MPP - Massive Parallel Processing.
Latest Answer: Hardware wise thereÂ areÂ 3 types of parallel processing systems avai
lable:1. SMP (symetric multipro... Last Updated By Gary on May 07, 2007
12. What does a Config File in parallel extender consist of? Subscribe
Config file consists of the following. a) Number of Processes or Nodes. b) Actua
l Disk Storage Location.
Latest Answer: Config file was read by datastage engine before running the job i
n Px.it consist of configuration ab... Last Updated By Sivarao on May 15, 2006
13. Functionality of Link Partitioner and Link Collector? Subscribe

Link Partitioner : It actually splits data into various partitions or data flows
using various partition methods . Link Collector : It collects the data coming
from partitions, merges it into a singl
Latest Answer: server jobs mainly execute the jobs in sequential fashion,the ipc
stage as well as link partioner an... Last Updated By jagan nimmagadda on
14. What is Modulus and Splitting in Dynamic Hashed File? Subscribe

In a Hashed File, the size of the file keeps changing randomly. If the size of t
he file increases it is called as "Modulus". If the size of the file decreases i
t is called as "Splitting
Latest Answer: The modulus size can be increased by contacting your Unix Admin..
.. Last Updated By Milestones on September 22, 2005
15. Types of vies in Datastage Director? Subscribe

There are 3 types of views in Datastage Director a) Job View - Dates of Jobs Com
piled. b) Log View - Status of Job last run c) Status View - Warning Messages, E
vent Messages, Program Generated Messag
Latest Answer: There are four views in Director. Job view is not one of them...
. Last Updated By Gregg on July 27, 2006
16. Differentiate Database data and Data warehouse data? Subscribe

Data in a Database is a) Detailed or Transactional b) Both Readable and Writable
. c) Current.
Latest Answer: Database data is in the form of OLTP and Data warehouse data will
be in the form of OLAP. OLTP is fo... Last Updated By bhargava on May 01, 200
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17. What are the difficulties faced in using DataStage ? or what are the constr
aints in using DataStage
What are the difficulties faced in using DataStage ? or what are the constraints
in using DataStage ? Subscribe
18. What r XML files and how do you read data from XML files and what stage to
be used? Subscribe
Latest Answer: First, u can use XML metadata importer to import the XML source d
efinition.Once it is done. U c... Last Updated By hanug on May 06, 2007
19. How do you catch bad rows from OCI stage? Subscribe
20. Why do you use SQL LOADER or OCI STAGE? Subscribe

Latest Answer: Data Will transfer very quickly to the Data Warehouse by using SQ
L Loader.... Last Updated By vijay on March 20, 2006
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21. Suppose if there are million records did you use OCI? if not then what sta
ge do you prefer? Subscribe
Latest Answer: using Orabulk... Last Updated By narsimhulu.D on September 11,
22. How do you populate source files? Subscribe

Latest Answer: It seems, the question is not quite right.Can you please explain
what do you mean by populate "... Last Updated By hanug on May 06, 2007
23. How do you pass the parameter to the job sequence if the job is running at
night? Subscribe
Latest Answer: You can insert the parameter values in a table and read them when
the package runs using O... Last Updated By gagan8877 on May 08, 2007
24. What happens if the job fails at night? Subscribe

Latest Answer: U can define a job sequence to send an email using SMTP activity
if the job fails. Or log the failur... Last Updated By gagan8877 on May 08, 20
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25. What is SQL tuning? how do you do it ? Subscribe

Latest Answer: sql tunning how to per form thisin sql-server... through query an
alyser is needed and explain brief ... Last Updated By vinoth kumar on Decembe
r 18, 2006
26. What is project life cycle and how do you implement it? Subscribe
27. How do you track performance statistics and enhance it? Subscribe
Latest Answer: Through Monitor we can view the performance statistics.... Last U
pdated By J D Prasad Malneedi on September 29, 2005
28. How do you do oracle 4 way inner join if there are 4 oracle input files? Su
bscribe
Latest Answer: The Question asked incorrectly.there wont be any Oracle file. It
is Oracle table or view object.I ne... Last Updated By hanug on May 06, 2007
29. What is the order of execution done internally in the transformer with the
stage editor having inpu
What is the order of execution done internally in the transformer with the stage
editor having input links on the lft hand side and output links? Subscribe
30. Explain your last project and your role in it.?

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31. What are the often used Stages or stages you worked with in your last proje
ct? Subscribe
A) Transformer, ORAOCI8/9, ODBC, Link-Partitioner, Link-Collector, Hash, ODBC, A
ggregator, Sort.
32. How many jobs have you created in your last project? Subscribe
100+ jobs for every 6 months if you are in Development, if you are in testing 40
jobs for every 6 months although it need not be the same number for everybody
Latest Answer: - I don't think these are the right numbers. Someone creating 100
+ jobs in 6 months !! If you do the... Last Updated By Anjan Roy on September
15,
33. Tell me the environment in your last projects Subscribe

Give the OS of the Server and the OS of the Client of your recent most project
Latest Answer: server is unix and client machine i.e is ur machine where u desig
n a job is windows xp professional... Last Updated By rcp on October 13, 2005
34. Did you Parameterize the job or hard-coded the values in the jobs? Subscrib
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Always parameterized the job. Either the values are coming from Job Properties o
r from a Parameter Manager a third part tool. There is no way you will hard code som
e parameters in your jobs. The o
Latest Answer: hi please send me some real time questions in datastage for inter
view.i have interview on sunday for... Last Updated By umapathy on March 24, 2
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35. Have you ever involved in updating the DS versions like DS 5.X, if so tell
us some the steps you ha
Have you ever involved in updating the DS versions like DS 5.X, if so tell us so
me the steps you have taken in doing so? Subscribe
Yes. The following are some of the steps; I have taken in doing so:1) Definitely
take a back up of the whole project(s) by exporting the project as a .dsx file2
) See that you are using the same parent
36. What is Hash file stage and what is it used for? Subscribe
Used for Look-ups. It is like a reference table. It is also used in-place of ODB
C, OCI tables for better performance.
Latest Answer: We can also use the Hash File stage to avoid / remove dupilcate r
owsby specifying the hash key on a... Last Updated By RamaPrasad Batchu on Mar
ch 08, 2006
37. What are Static Hash files and Dynamic Hash files? Subscribe
As the names itself suggest what they mean. In general we use Type-30 dynamic Ha
sh files. The Data file has a default size of 2Gb and the overflow file is used
if the data exceeds the 2GB size.
Latest Answer: Dynamic Hash Files can automatically adjust their sie - modulous
(no. of groups) and separation (gro... Last Updated By gagan8877 on May 08, 20
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38. What versions of DS you worked with? Subscribe

DS 7.0.2/6.0/5.2
39. What other ETL's you have worked with? Subscribe

Informatica and also DataJunction if it is present in your Resume.
Latest Answer: ab-initiodatasatge EE parllel editionoracle -Etlthere are 7 ETL i
n market ! ... Last Updated By cndraa on December 09, 2005
40. Did you work in UNIX environment? Subscribe

Yes. One of the most important requirements.
Latest Answer: some times u need to write unix progrms in back round !like batch
progms ! bcz data stage can invoke... Last Updated By cndraa on December 09,
2005
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41. How good are you with your PL/SQL? Subscribe
On the scale of 1-10 say 8.5-9
Latest Answer: u will not be writtinf pl/sql in datastage ! sql knowledge is eno
ugh ...... Last Updated By cndraa on January 31, 2006
42. Explain the differences between Oracle8i/9i? Subscribe

Latest Answer: Oracle 8i does not support pseudo column sysdate but 9i supportsO
racle 8i we can create 256 columns ... Last Updated By Gnaneshwar on April 09,
2007
43. Do you know about INTEGRITY/QUALITY stage? Subscribe
Latest Answer: Qulaity Stage can be integrated with DataStage, In Quality Stage
we have many stages like investigat... Last Updated By suganyasug on April 18,
2007
44. Do u know about METASTAGE? Subscribe

Latest Answer: MetaStage is a persistent metadata Directory that uniquely synchr
onizesmetadata across multiple sepa... Last Updated By spartankiya on February
19, 2007
45. How did u connect to DB2 in your last project? Subscribe

Using DB2 ODBC drivers.
Latest Answer: The following stages can connect to DB2 Database:ODBCDB2 Plug-in
StageDynamic Relational Stage... Last Updated By gagan8877 on May 08, 2007
46. What are OConv () and Iconv () functions and where are they used? Subscri
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IConv() - Converts a string to an internal storage formatOConv() - Converts an e
xpression to an output format.
Latest Answer: iconv is used to convert the date into into internal format i.e o
nly datastage can understand exampl... Last Updated By cndraa on January 30, 2
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47. What are Routines and where/how are they written and have you written any r
outines before? &nb
What are Routines and where/how are they written and have you written any routin
es before? Subscribe
Routines are stored in the Routines branch of the DataStage Repository, where yo
u can create, view or edit. The following are different types of routines: 1)
Transform functions
48. If worked with DS6.0 and latest versions what are Link-Partitioner and Link
-Collector used for? Subscribe
Link Partitioner - Used for partitioning the data.Link Collector - Used for coll
ecting the partitioned data.
49. How did you handle reject data? Subscribe

Typically a Reject-link is defined and the rejected data is loaded back into dat
a warehouse. So Reject link has to be defined every Output link you wish to coll
ect rejected data. Rejected data is typi
Latest Answer: we can handle rejected data by collecting them seperately in sequ
ential file......... Last Updated By sunilsavalasang on October 18, 2006
50. What are other Performance tunings you have done in your last project to in
crease the performance o
What are other Performance tunings you have done in your last project to increas
e the performance of slowly running jobs? Subscribe
Staged the data coming from ODBC/OCI/DB2UDB stages or any database on the server
using Hash/Sequential files for optimum performance also for data recovery in c
ase job aborts.Tuned the OCI stage for '
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51. How did you handle an 'Aborted' sequencer? Subscribe
In almost all cases we have to delete the data inserted by this from DB manually
and fix the job and then run the job again.
52. What are Sequencers? Subscribe

Sequencers are job control programs that execute other jobs with preset Job para
meters.
Latest Answer: A sequencer allows you to synchronize the control flow of multipl
e activities in a job sequence. It ... Last Updated By jagan nimmagadda on Jan
uary 10, 2006
53. How did u connect with DB2 in your last project? Subscribe
Most of the times the data was sent to us in the form of flat files. The data is
dumped and sent to us. In some cases were we need to connect to DB2 for look-up
s as an instance then we used ODBC drive
54. Read the String functions in DS Subscribe

Functions like [] -> sub-string function and ':' -> concatenation operatorSyntax
: string [ [ start, ] length ]string [ delimiter, instance, repeats ]
55. What will you in a situation where somebody wants to send you a file and us
e that file as an input
What will you in a situation where somebody wants to send you a file and use tha
t file as an input or reference and then run job. Subscribe
A. Under Windows: Use the 'WaitForFileActivity' under the Sequencers and then ru
n the job. May be you can schedule the sequencer around the time the file is exp
ected to arrive.B. Under UNIX:
56. How would call an external Java function which are not supported by DataSta
ge? Subscribe
Starting from DS 6.0 we have the ability to call external Java functions using a
Java package from Ascential. In this case we can even use the command line to i
nvoke the Java function and write the re
57. What is the utility you use to schedule the jobs on a UNIX server other tha
n using Ascential Direct
What is the utility you use to schedule the jobs on a UNIX server other than usi
ng Ascential Director? Subscribe
Use crontab utility along with dsexecute() function along with proper parameters
passed.
58. What are the command line functions that import and export the DS jobs? Su
bscribe
A. dsimport.exe- imports the DataStage components.B. dsexport.exe- exports the D
ataStage components.
Latest Answer: Parameters: UserName,Password, Hostname, ProjectName,CurrentDirec
tory(C:/Ascential/DataStage7.5.1/ds... Last Updated By Pd on September 22, 200
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59. How will you determine the sequence of jobs to load into data warehouse? S
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First we execute the jobs that load the data into Dimension tables, then Fact ta
bles, then load the Aggregator tables (if any).
60. The above might rise another question: Why do we have to load the dimension
al tables first, then fa
The above might rise another question: Why do we have to load the dimensional ta
bles first, then fact tables: Subscribe
As we load the dimensional tables the keys (primary) are generated and these key
s (primary) are Foreign keys in Fact tables.
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61. Tell me one situation from your last project, where you had faced problem a
nd How did u solve it? Subscribe
A. The jobs in which data is read directly from OCI stages are running extremely
slow. I had to stage the data before sending to the transformer to make the job
s run faster.B. The job aborts
62. Does the selection of 'Clear the table and Insert rows' in the ODBC stage s
end a Truncate
Does the selection of 'Clear the table and Insert rows' in the ODBC stage send a
Truncate statement to the DB or does it do some kind of Delete logic. Subscri
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There is no TRUNCATE on ODBC stages. It is Clear table blah blah and that is a d
elete from statement. On an OCI stage such as Oracle, you do have both Clear and
Truncate options. They are radically di
63. How do you rename all of the jobs to support your new File-naming conventio
ns? Subscribe
Create a Excel spreadsheet with new and old names. Export the whole project as a
dsx. Write a Perl program, which can do a simple rename of the strings looking
up the Excel file. Then import the new d
64. Difference between Hashfile and Sequential File? Subscribe

Latest Answer: Hash file stores the data based on hash algorithm and on a key va
lue. A sequential file is just a fi... Last Updated By J D Prasad Malneedi on
September 29, 2005
65. What is iconv and oconv functions? Subscribe

Latest Answer: Plz..Refer Q.227 for more information.... Last Updated By JD on
November 29, 2006
66. How can we join one Oracle source and Sequential file?. Subscribe
Latest Answer: . Join and look up used to join oracle and sequential file... Las
t Updated By J D Prasad Malneedi on September 29, 2005
67. How can we implement Slowly Changing Dimensions in DataStage?. Subscribe
Latest Answer: We can implement SCD in datastage 1.Type 1 SCD:insert else update
in ODBC stage2.Type 2 SCD:insert n... Last Updated By suganyasug on April 18,
2007
68. How can we implement Lookup in DataStage Server jobs? Subscribe

Latest Answer: In server canvs we can perform 2 kinds of direct lookupsOne is by
using a hashed file and the other ... Last Updated By Purnima on March 30, 20
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69. What are all the third party tools used in DataStage? Subscribe
Latest Answer: Contl-M job schedular... Last Updated By Upul on April 24, 2007
70. what is the difference between routine and transform and function? Subscrib
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Latest Answer: By using Routines we can return values but by transformers we can
not return values... Last Updated By suganyasug on April 18, 2007
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71. what are the Job parameters? Subscribe
Latest Answer: These Parameters are used to provide Administrative access and ch
ange run time values of the job.EDI... Last Updated By mallakishore on October
20, 2005
72. How can we improve the performance of DataStage jobs? Subscribe

Latest Answer: hi,i am learnining datastage server job, but i dont have project
to analyze, if u have any projects ... Last Updated By vedamurthy on February
21, 2006
73. How can we create Containers? Subscribe

Latest Answer: hicontainers r speacial type of jobs in the datastage that will s
implify the job design either in th... Last Updated By satish kumar on April 1
6, 2006
74. When should we use ODS? Subscribe

DWH's are typically read only, batch updated on a scheduleODS's are maintained i
n more real time, trickle fed constantly
75. Whats difference betweeen operational data stage (ODS) & data warehouse? Su
bscribe
Latest Answer: An operational data store (or "ODS") is a database designed to in
tegrate data from multiple sources ... Last Updated By Dharmendra on September
22, 2006
76. How to handle Date convertions in Datastage? Convert a mm/dd/yyyy format to

yyyy-dd-mm? Subscribe
We use a) "Iconv" function - Internal Convertion. b) "Oconv" function - External
Convertion. Function to convert mm/dd/yyyy format to yyyy-dd-mm is Oconv(Iconv(
Filedname,"D/M
Latest Answer: we can achieve this conversion using transformer stage conversio
n functions in PX.Hanu.... Last Updated By hanug on May 06, 2007
77. How do you pass filename as the parameter for a job? Subscribe
Latest Answer: 1. Define the job parameter at the job level or Project level.2.
Use the file name in the stage(sour... Last Updated By hanug on May 06, 2007
78. How will you call external function or subroutine from datastage? Subscribe
Latest Answer: U can call external functions, subroutines by using Before/After

stage/job Subroutines : ExecSHExecD... Last Updated By gagan8877 on May 08, 20
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79. Dimensional modelling is again sub divided into 2 types. Subscribe

a)Star Schema - Simple & Much Faster. Denormalized form. b)Snowflake Schema - Co
mplex with more Granularity. More normalized form.
Latest Answer: i want routine documents and userdefined code of the routine? And
real time senario in datastag... Last Updated By nukaraj on October 16, 2005
80. how to create batches in Datastage from command prompt

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81. How do you eliminate duplicate rows? Subscribe
Latest Answer: If you dont have remove duplicates stge, you can use hash file to
eliminate duplicates.... Last Updated By klsrao on April 23, 2007
82. What is DS Administrator used for - did u use it? Subscribe

Latest Answer: It is primarily used to create the Datastage project, assign the
user roles to the project, set para... Last Updated By hanug on May 06, 2007
83. What is DS Designer used for - did u use it? Subscribe

Latest Answer: You use the Designer to build jobs by creating a visual design th
at models the flow and transformati... Last Updated By CNU on August 02, 2005
84. What about System variables? Subscribe
Latest Answer: If a new system variable is added in Windows, how can we access i
t in datastage?Thanks in advance... Last Updated By Ravi Kumar on March 15, 20
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85. How do you eliminate duplicate rows? Subscribe

Latest Answer: removal of duplicates done in two ways: 1. Use "Duplicate Data Re
moval" stage or 2. ... Last Updated By Mujeebur on August 15, 2005
86. What are types of Hashed File? Subscribe

Hashed File is classified broadly into 2 types. a) Static - Sub divided into 17
types based on Primary Key Pattern. b) Dynamic - sub divided into 2 types i)
Generic ii
Latest Answer: Hashed File is classified broadly into 2 types. a) Static - Sub
divided into 17 types ba... Last Updated By prashanth on August 25, 2005
87. What is DS Manager used for - did u use it? Subscribe

Latest Answer: It is used to view and edit the contents of datastage repository.
... Last Updated By Goutham on January 26, 2006
88. What is DS Director used for - did u use it? Subscribe

Latest Answer: Datastage Director is GUI to monitor, run, validate & schedule da
tastage server jobs. ... Last Updated By Tutu on May 11, 2006
89. How do we do the automation of dsjobs? Subscribe

Latest Answer: We can call Datastage Batch Job from Command prompt using 'dsjob'
. We can also pass all the paramete... Last Updated By Pavan on December 05, 2
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90. How do you merge two files in DS? Subscribe

Either used Copy command as a Before-job subroutine if the metadata of the 2 fil
es are same or created a job to concatenate the 2 files into one if the metadata
is different.
Latest Answer: Use the merge plug-in stage which can merge two files based on th
e defined key fields by using, INNE... Last Updated By gagan8877 on May 08, 20
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91. what's the difference between Datastage Developers and Datastage Designers.
What are the skill
what's the difference between Datastage Developers and Datastage Designers. What
are the skill's required for this. Subscribe
92. Importance of Surrogate Key in Data warehousing? Subscribe
Surrogate Key is a Primary Key for a Dimension table. Most importance of using i
t is it is independent of underlying database. i.e Surrogate Key is not affected
by the changes going on with a databas
Latest Answer: can uplz elobrate, how performance improves, queryprocessing... L
ast Updated By vara on January 25, 2007
93. How do you fix the error "OCI has fetched truncated data" in DataStage Subs
cribe
Latest Answer: I have same problem and don't know what is the solution. I encoun
ter this problem only for part of d... Last Updated By Lin Chen on October 17,
2006
94. what is difference between data stage and informatica Subscribe

Asked by: neelu
Latest Answer: Here is a very good articles on these differences... whic hhelps
to get an idea.. basically it's dep... Last Updated By Jimmy on September 11,
2005
95. Could you please help me with a set of questions on Parallel Extender? Subs
cribe
X Asked by: aadi
96. How many places u can call Routines? Subscribe

Four Places u can call (i) Transform of routine (A) Date Transformation (B) Upst
ring Transformation (ii) Transform of the Before & After Subroutines(iii) XML tr
ansformation(iv)Web base t Asked by: Mukesh Kumar Madhav
97. What is the Batch Program and how can generate ? Subscribe
Batch programe is the programe it's generate run time to maintain by the datasta
ge it self but u can easy to change own the basis of your requirement (Extractio
n, Transformation,Loading) .Batch progr Asked by: Mukesh Kumar Madhav
98. Scenario based Question ........... Suppose that 4 job control by the seque
ncer like (job 1, job 2,
Scenario based Question ........... Suppose that 4 job control by the sequencer
like (job 1, job 2, job 3, job 4 )if job 1 have 10,000 row ,after run the job on
ly 5000 data has been loaded in target table remaining are not loaded and your j
ob going to be aborted then.. How can short out the problem. Subscribe
Suppose job sequencer synchronies or control 4 job but job 1 have problem, in th
is condition should go director and check it what type of problem showing either
data type problem, warning massage, job Asked by: Mukesh Kumar Madhav
99. I want to process 3 files in sequentially one by one , how can i do that. w
hile processing the file
I want to process 3 files in sequentially one by one , how can i do that. while
processing the files it should fetch files automatically . Subscribe
hi Asked by: sekhar
100. What Happens if RCP is disable ? Subscribe
Asked by: sekhar
Latest Answer: Runtime column propagation (RCP): If RCP is enabled for any job,
and specifically for those stage wh... Last Updated By Venkata Maruthi on Nove
mber 10, 2005
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101. defaults nodes for datastage parallel Edition Subscribe
Asked by: sekhar
Latest Answer: Actually the Number of Nodes depend on the number of processors i
n your system.If your system is sup... Last Updated By mallakishore on October
20, 2005
102. where does unix script of datastage executes weather in clinet machine or
in server.suppose if it e
where does unix script of datastage executes weather in clinet machine or in ser
ver.suppose if it eexcutes on server then it will execute ? Subscribe
Asked by: sekhar
103. how can we pass parameters to job by using file. Subscribe

Asked by: sudhakar_geek
Latest Answer: u can create a UNIX shell script which will pass the parameters t
o the job and u also can create log... Last Updated By Rajshankar on April 04,
2006
104. What is ' insert for update ' in datastage Subscribe

Asked by: ashish
Latest Answer: Question is not clear still, i think 'insert to update' is update
d value is inserted to maintain&nbs... Last Updated By Sharanu Patil on Februa
ry 28, 2006
105. Hi, What are the Repository Tables in DataStage and What are they? Subscri
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Asked by: Kumar
Latest Answer: Dear User. A datawarehouse is a repository(centralized as well as
distributed) of Data, able... Last Updated By Venkat on October 25, 2005
106. What is version Control? Subscribe

Asked by: Kumar
Latest Answer: Version Controlstores different versions of DS jobsruns different
versions of same jobreverts to pre... Last Updated By vick on October 30, 200
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107. what happends out put of hash file is connected to transformer ..what erro
r it throughs Subscribe
Asked by: blade
Latest Answer: If Hash file output is connected to transformer stage the hash fi
le will consider as the Lookup file... Last Updated By shameerok on March 22,
2006
108. please list out the versions of datastage Parallel , server editions and i
n which year they are rea
please list out the versions of datastage Parallel , server editions and in whic
h year they are realised. Subscribe
Asked by: rcp
109. what is merge and how it can be done plz explain with simple example takin
g 2 tables ....... Subscribe
Asked by: rcp
Latest Answer: Merge stage in used for only Flat files in server edition... Last
Updated By madan on April 29, 2006
110. How can I extract data from DB2 (on IBM iSeries) to the data warehouse via
Datastage as the ETL too
How can I extract data from DB2 (on IBM iSeries) to the data warehouse via Datas
tage as the ETL tool. I mean do I first need to use ODBC to create connectivity
and use an adapter for the extraction and transformation of data? Thanks so much
if anybody could provide an answer. Subscribe
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111. How can I connect my DB2 database on AS400 to DataStage? Do I need to use
ODBC 1st to open the data
How can I connect my DB2 database on AS400 to DataStage? Do I need to use ODBC 1
st to open the database connectivity and then use an adapter for just connecting
between the two? Thanks alot of any replies. Subscribe
Asked by: cy
112. what is the OCI? and how to use the ETL Tools? Subscribe
OCI means orabulk data which used client having bulk data its retrive time is mu
ch more ie., your used to orabulk data the divided and retrived Asked by: raman
amv
Latest Answer: OCI means oracle call interface i.e this acts like native tool to
load oracle databaseU can just dra... Last Updated By Sharanu Patil on Februa
ry 28, 2006
113. what is NLS in datastage? how we use NLS in Datastage ? what advantages in
that ? at the time of in
what is NLS in datastage? how we use NLS in Datastage ? what advantages in that
? at the time of installation i am not choosen that NLS option , now i want to u
se that options what can i do ? to reinstall that datastage or first uninstall a
nd install once again ? Subscribe
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114. What is APT_CONFIG in datastage Subscribe

Asked by: rcp
Latest Answer: APT_CONFIG is just an environment variable used to idetify the *.
apt file. Dont confuse that with *.... Last Updated By Raghu on December 09, 2
005
115. how we use NLS function in Datastage? what are advantages of NLS function?
where we can use that on
how we use NLS function in Datastage? what are advantages of NLS function? where
we can use that one? explain briefly? Subscribe
Asked by: sreedhar Kancherla
116. what is merge ?and how to use merge? Subscribe

merge is nothing but a filter conditions that have been used for filter conditio
n Asked by: ramanamv
Latest Answer: Merge stage is a processing stage, it can have any no of input li
nk and only one output link. It is ... Last Updated By shameerok on March 22,
2006
117. what is difference between serverjobs & paraller jobs Subscribe

Asked by: ramanamv
Latest Answer: Server jobs can be run on SMP,MPP machines.Here performance is lo
w i.e speed is lessParallel jobs ca... Last Updated By Sharanu Patil on Februa
ry 28, 2006
118. what is DataStage Multi-byte, Single-byte file conversions in Mainframe jo

bs? what is UTF 8 ? whats
what is DataStage Multi-byte, Single-byte file conversions in Mainframe jobs? wh
at is UTF 8 ? whats use of UTF 8 ? Subscribe
Asked by: ramireddy
119. what is Data stage Multi-byte, Single-byte file conversions?how we use tha
t conversions in data sta
what is Data stage Multi-byte, Single-byte file conversions?how we use that conv
ersions in data stage? Subscribe
Asked by: ramireddy
120. How can ETL excel file to Datamart? Subscribe

Asked by: perer*king
Latest Answer: open the ODBC Data Source Administrator found in the controlpanel
/administrative tools.under the sys... Last Updated By machaiyer on July 24, 2
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121. what is the mean of Try to have the constraints in the 'Selection' criteri
a of the jobs i
what is the mean of Try to have the constraints in the 'Selection' criteria of t
he jobs itself. This will eliminate the unnecessary records even getting in befo
re joins are made? Subscribe
Asked by: sudhakar
122. what is the meaning of the following..1)If an input file has an excessive
number of rows and can be
what is the meaning of the following..1)If an input file has an excessive number
of rows and can be split-up then use standard 2)logic to run jobs in parallel3)
Tuning should occur on a job-by-job basis. Use the power of DBMS. Subscribe
Asked by: sudhakar
123. how to implement routines in data stage,have any one has any material for
data stage pl send to me Subscribe
pl send material for data stage Asked by: krishna
Latest Answer: there are 3 kind of routines is there in Datastage.1.server routi
nes which will used in server jobs.... Last Updated By Sivarao on December 28,
2005
124. what is trouble shhoting in server jobs ? what are the diff kinds of error
s encountered while runni
what is trouble shhoting in server jobs ? what are the diff kinds of errors enco
untered while running any job? Subscribe
Asked by: Ajju2005
125. how can u implement slowly changed dimensions in datastage? explain?2) can
u join flat file and dat
how can u implement slowly changed dimensions in datastage? explain?2) can u joi
n flat file and database in datastage?how? Subscribe
Asked by: ramaiah
126. How can you implement Complex Jobs in datastage Subscribe

Asked by: ramaiah
Latest Answer: if the job have good logic that is called as complex job.simply
we can say Sce... Last Updated By arun on May 30, 2006
127. Does Enterprise Edition only add the parallel processing for better perfor
mance?Are any stages/tran
Does Enterprise Edition only add the parallel processing for better performance?
Are any stages/transformations available in the enterprise edition only? Subscri
be
Asked by: stanis
128. how can you do incremental load in datastage? Subscribe

Asked by: ramaiah
Latest Answer: Incremental load means daily load.when ever you are selecting dat
a from source, select the records w... Last Updated By Sivarao on December 27,
2005
129. If your running 4 ways parallel and you have 10 stages on the canvas, how
many processes does datas
If your running 4 ways parallel and you have 10 stages on the canvas, how many p
rocesses does datastage create? Subscribe
Asked by: vishut
130. If data is partitioned in your job on key 1 and then you aggregate on key
2, what issues could aris
If data is partitioned in your job on key 1 and then you aggregate on key 2, wha
t issues could arise? Subscribe
Asked by: vishut
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131. Does the BibhudataStage Oracle plug-in better than OCI plug-in coming from
DataStage? What is the
Does the BibhudataStage Oracle plug-in better than OCI plug-in coming from DataS
tage? What is the BibhudataStage extra functions? Subscribe
Asked by: MustageemRaees
132. What is the difference between Datastage and Datastage TX? Subscribe
Asked by: jalvarado
Latest Answer: Its a critical question to answer, but one thing i can tell u tha
t Datastage Tx is not a ETL tool &a... Last Updated By Sharanu Patil on Februa
ry 28, 2006
133. what are validations you perform after creating jobs in designer.what r th
e different type of error
what are validations you perform after creating jobs in designer.what r the diff
erent type of errors u faced during loading and how u solve them Subscribe
Asked by: diwakar
134. How can I specify a filter command for processing data while defining sequ
ential file output data? Subscribe
Asked by: Mario Franke
Latest Answer: We have some thing called as after job subroutine and Before subr
outine, with then we can execute th... Last Updated By Sreedhar on January 30,
2006
135. can we use shared container as lookup in datastage server jobs? Subscribe
Asked by: sivarao
Latest Answer: Hi,I am using DataStage 7.5, Unix. we can use shared container m
ore than one time in the job.T... Last Updated By Radhika on June 27, 2006
136. Hi!Can any one tell me how to extract data from more than 1 hetrogenious S
ources.mean, example 1 se
Hi!Can any one tell me how to extract data from more than 1 hetrogenious Sources
.mean, example 1 sequenal file, Sybase , Oracle in a singale Job. Subscribe
Asked by: Ranga
137. What is the exact difference betwwen Join,Merge and Lookup Stage?? Subscri
be
Asked by: Phantom
Latest Answer: Also remember that to use Merge stage the key's field names MUS
T be equal in both&n... Last Updated By Ronaldo on August 05, 2006
138. hi! .. There are three different types of user-created stages available fo
r PX. What are they? Whi
hi! .. There are three different types of user-created stages available for PX.
What are they? Which would you use? What are the disadvantage for using each typ
e? Subscribe
Asked by: Hridesh
139. what is the difference between buildopts and subroutines ? Subscribe
Asked by: sekr
Latest Answer: buildopts generates c++ code ( oops concept)subroutine :- is norm
al programe and u can call any wher... Last Updated By sekhu_da on December 22
, 2006
140. what user varibale activity when it used how it used !where it is used wit
h real example Subscribe
Asked by: sekr
Latest Answer: By using This User variable activity we can create some variables
in the job sequnce,this variables ... Last Updated By jagan nimmagadda on Mar
ch 28, 2006
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141. DataStage from Staging to MDW is only running at 1 row per second! What do
we do to remedy? Subscribe
Asked by: John
Latest Answer: Question should be more detailed. I am assuming that there are to
o many stages, which is causing pro... Last Updated By Ravi on May 29, 2006
142. what is the difference between datastage and informatica Subscribe

Asked by: anunath
Latest Answer: I have used both Datastage and Informatica... In my opinion, Data
Stage is way more powerful and scal... Last Updated By Anjan Roy on November 2
7, 2006
143. how is datastage 4.0 functionally different from the enterprise edition no
w?? what are the exact ch
how is datastage 4.0 functionally different from the enterprise edition now?? wh
at are the exact changes? Subscribe
Asked by: vamsi
144. What are orabulk and bcp stages? Subscribe

Asked by: ragkris
Latest Answer: ORABULK is used to load bulk data into single table of target ora
cle database.BCP is used to load bu... Last Updated By pavan on May 13, 2006
145. how to handle the rejected rows in datastage? Subscribe

Asked by: vajra
Latest Answer: we can handle rejected rows in two ways with help of Constraints
in a Tansformer.1) By Putting on th... Last Updated By RamaPrasad Batchu on Ma
rch 09, 2006
146. it is possible to run parallel jobs in server jobs? Subscribe

Asked by: mallikharjuna reddy
Latest Answer: by configuring config file... Last Updated By server on parllel
on April 21, 2006
147. what are the differences between the data stage 7.0 and 7.5in server jobs?
Subscribe
Latest Answer: There are lot of Diffrences: There are lot of new stages are avai
lable in DS7.5 For Eg: CDC ... Last Updated By Satheesh on March 15, 2006
148. How the hash file is doing lookup in serverjobs?How is it comparing the ke
y values? Subscribe
Asked by: priyabrata
Latest Answer: Hashed File is used for two purpose: 1. Remove Duplicate Records
2. Then Used for reference looku... Last Updated By Satheesh on March 15, 2006
149. what is data set? and what is file set? Subscribe

Latest Answer: file set:- It allows you to read data from or write data to a fil
e set. The stage can have a single ... Last Updated By srinivas on April 14, 2
006
150. what are the enhancements made in datastage 7.5 compare with 7.0 Subscribe
Asked by: uma maheswar
Latest Answer: Complex file and Surrogate key generator stages are added in Ver
7.5 ... Last Updated By Rama Prasad on April 21, 2006
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151. If I add a new environment variable in Windows, how can I access it in Dat
aStage?Thanks in advance. Subscribe
Asked by: raviatpals
Latest Answer: U can view all the environment variables in designer. U can check
it in Job properties. U can add an... Last Updated By Rama Prasad on April 21
, 2006
152. 1.What about System variables? 2.How can we create Containers? 3.How can w
e improve the performance
1.What about System variables? 2.How can we create Containers? 3.How can we impr
ove the performance of DataStage? 4.what are the Job parameters? 5.what is the d
ifference between routine and transform and function? 6.What are all the third p
arty tools used in DataStage? 7.How can we implement Lookup in DataStage Server
jobs? 8.How can we implement Slowly Changing Dimensions in DataStage?. 9.How can
we join one Oracle source and Sequential file?. 10.What is iconv and oconv func
tions? 11.Differenc Subscribe
Asked by: sdfsdf
153. it is possible to call one job in another job in server jobs? Subscribe
Latest Answer: Hi, I think we can call a job into another job. In fact calling
doesn't sound good, beca... Last Updated By Alok Ranjan on April 05, 2006
154. what is hashing algorithm and explain breafly how it works? Subscribe
Latest Answer: Hi all, Can any one please explain the difference between GENERAL
and SEQ.NUM hashiing algorithms? t... Last Updated By raj on March 24, 2006
155. what is OCI? Subscribe

Latest Answer: Oracle offers a proprietary call interface for C and C++ programm
ers that allows manipulation of dat... Last Updated By Rama Prasad on April 21
, 2006
156. What is the NLS equivalent to NLS oracle code American_America.US7ASCII on

Datastage NLS? Subscribe
Asked by: Mirana
157. If a DataStage job aborts after say 1000 records, how to continue the job
from 1000th record after
If a DataStage job aborts after say 1000 records, how to continue the job from 1
000th record after fixing the error? Subscribe
Asked by: etl
158. how to implement type2 slowly changing dimensions in data stage?explain wi

th example? Subscribe
Latest Answer: to develope scd type 2 us the update action in target as " insert
new rows only"for this u need to m... Last Updated By Sivarao on May 15, 2006
159. Is it possible to move the data from oracle ware house to SAP Warehouse us
ing with DATASTAGE Tool. Subscribe
Asked by: arya
Latest Answer: We can use DataStage Extract Pack for SAP R/3 and DataStage Load
Pack for SAP BW ... Last Updated By Rama Prasad on April 21, 2006
160. Can you convert a snow flake schema into star schema? Subscribe
Yes, We can convert by attaching one hierarchy to lowest level of another hierar
chy. Asked by: dwandbi
Latest Answer: No. It is not possible... Last Updated By katta on February 24,
2007
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161. How much would be the size of the database in DataStage ?What is the diffe
rence between Inprocess a
How much would be the size of the database in DataStage ?What is the difference
between Inprocess and Interprocess ? Subscribe
Asked by: Madhusudan
162. How I can convert Server Jobs into Parallel Jobs? Subscribe
Asked by: frodeg
Latest Answer: Could'nt we just copy the whole job design and stages using your
mouse and paste into a new parallel... Last Updated By John on February 06, 20
07
163. What is the max capacity of Hash file in DataStage? Subscribe

Asked by: Lak
Latest Answer: Hello,Take a look at the uvconfig file:# 64BIT_FILES - This sets
the default mode used to# &nbs... Last Updated By Alfons Garcia on May 05, 200
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164. how to use rank&updatestratergy in datastage Subscribe

Asked by: subbu
Latest Answer: U can use it with ODBC stage by writing proper SQl quries... Last
Updated By shri on September 15, 2006
165. What is the difference between drs and odbc stage Subscribe
Asked by: sowmya
Latest Answer: To answer your question the DRS stage should be faster then the O
DBC stage as it uses native databas... Last Updated By Zabi81 on June 01, 2006
166. what is meaning of file extender in data stage server jobs.can we run the
data stage job from one j
what is meaning of file extender in data stage server jobs.can we run the data s
tage job from one job to another job that file data where it is stored and what
is the file extender in ds jobs. Subscribe
Asked by: venkateswarlu
167. # How does DataStage handle the user security? Subscribe

Asked by: debasis_mohanty
Latest Answer: we have to create users in the Administrators and give the necess
ary priviliges to users.... Last Updated By chereddy on May 18, 2006
168. What are the Steps involved in development of a job in DataStage? Subscrib
e
Latest Answer: The steps required are:select the datasource stage depending upon
the sources for ex:flatfile,databa... Last Updated By chereddy on May 18, 200
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169. Briefly describe the various client components? Subscribe

Latest Answer: There are four client components DataStage Designer. A design int
erface used to create DataStage app... Last Updated By Ankit Agrawal on May 13
, 2006
170. What is a project? Specify its various components? Subscribe

Latest Answer: You always enter DataStage through a DataStage project. When you
start a DataStage client you are pr... Last Updated By silpabalram on May 15,
2006
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171. * What are constraints and derivation?* Explain the process of taking back
up in DataStage?*What are
* What are constraints and derivation?* Explain the process of taking backup in
DataStage?*What are the different types of lookups available in DataStage? Subsc
ribe
172. Will the data stage consider the second constraint in the transformer once
the first condition is s
Will the data stage consider the second constraint in the transformer once the f
irst condition is satisfied ( if the link odering is given) Subscribe
Asked by: raji
173. How to remove duplicates in server job Subscribe

Asked by: Priyanka
Latest Answer: Explain... Last Updated By sudheermukkamalla on August 07, 2006
(Answers: 3)
174. How do you do Usage analysis in datastage ? Subscribe

Asked by: arun
Latest Answer: Hi,1. If u want to know some job is a part of a sequence, then in
the Manager right click the job an... Last Updated By Zabi81 on June 01, 2006
175. purpose of using the key and difference between Surrogate keys and natural
key Subscribe
Asked by: CNDRAA
Latest Answer: natural key :- seq no system assigned ..skey :- user assigend ! u
can start with any number like 100... Last Updated By sekhu_da on November 14
, 2006
176. what are the environment variables in datastage?give some examples? Subscr
ibe
Latest Answer: Hi,Theare are the variables used at the project or job level.We c
an use them to to configure the job... Last Updated By Hanu on June 08, 2006
177. wht is the difference beteen validated ok and compiled in datastage. Subsc
ribe
Asked by: kishore
178. how we can create rank using datastge like in informatica. Subscribe
Asked by: kishore
Latest Answer: Hi,if ranking means that belowprop_id rank1 11... Last U
pdated By Murat Nur on December 28, 2006
179. What is difference between Merge stage and Join stage? Subscribe
Asked by: Madhav
Latest Answer: Someone was saying that join does not support more than two input
, while merge support two or more ... Last Updated By Alok Ranjan on June 08,
2006
180. Hican any one can explain what areDB2 UDB utilitiesub Subscribe
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181. what is PROFILE STAGE , QUALITY STAGE,AUDIT STAGE in datastage..please exp
alin in detail.thanks in
what is PROFILE STAGE , QUALITY STAGE,AUDIT STAGE in datastage..please expalin i
n detail.thanks in adv Subscribe
Asked by: xxx
182. hi all what is auditstage,profilestage,qulaitystages in datastge please ex

plain indetail Subscribe
Asked by: profilestage
183. how to implement type2 slowly changing dimenstion in datastage? give me wi

th example? Subscribe
Latest Answer: it is where the data is to be stored in the intermediate files...
Last Updated By shiva on June 29, 2006
184. how to find the number of rows in a sequential file? Subscribe

Latest Answer: Using Row Count system variable... Last Updated By malla on Jun
e 29, 2006
185. where actually the flat files store?what is the path? Subscribe
Latest Answer: The flat files will be stored in the unix box ,if u r environmen
t is Unix,U need to specify th... Last Updated By Bharath narahari on December
05, 2006
186. what are the different types of lookups in datastage? Subscribe

Latest Answer: U can also use the sparse look up property when u have large data
in the look up table ..... ... Last Updated By Bharath narahari on December 0
5, 2006
187. What are the most important aspects that a beginner must consider doin his
first DS project ? Subscribe
Asked by: Vince O'Reilly
Latest Answer: Apart from DWH concepts and different stage knowledge,try to use
the director to find out errors and... Last Updated By Bharath narahari on Dec
ember 05, 2006
188. how we can call the routine in datastage job?explain with steps? Subscribe
Latest Answer: In transformer stage we have to edit the field and click dsRoutin
es.It will prompt to select the rou... Last Updated By malla on June 29, 2006
189. what is job control?how it is developed?explain with steps? Subscribe

190. what is job control?how can it used explain with steps? Subscribe
Latest Answer: JCL defines Job Control Language it is ued to run more number of
jobs at a time with or without usin... Last Updated By shiva on June 29, 2006
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191. how to find errors in job sequence? Subscribe
Latest Answer: Just go to th eparticular jobs log... Last Updated By Bharath nar
ahari on December 05, 2006
192. it is possible to access the same job two users at a time in datastage? Su
bscribe
Latest Answer: No chance ..... u have to kill the job process ... Last Updated B
y Bharath narahari on December 05, 2006
193. what is the meaning of instace in data stage?explain with examples? Subscr
ibe
194. If the size of the Hash file exceeds 2GB..What happens? Does it overwrite
the current rows? Subscribe
Asked by: Rohit
Latest Answer: it overwrites the file... Last Updated By shiva on June 29, 200
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195. how to drop the index befor loading data in target and how to rebuild it i
n data stage? Subscribe
Latest Answer: This can be achieved by "Direct Load" option of SQLLoaded utily..
.. Last Updated By soumita deb on July 25, 2006
196. How to parametarise a field in a sequential file?I am using Datastage as E

TL Tool,Sequential file a
How to parametarise a field in a sequential file?I am using Datastage as ETL Too
l,Sequential file as source. Subscribe
Asked by: K.Bala Subrahmanyam
197. how to kill the job in data stage? Subscribe

Latest Answer: U can also do it by using data stage director clean up resources.
.. Last Updated By Bharath narahari on December 05, 2006
198. where we use link partitioner in data stage job?explain with example? Subs
cribe
Latest Answer: We use Link Partitioner in DataStage Server Jobs.The Link Partiti
oner stage is an active stage which... Last Updated By shiva on June 29, 2006
199. What is the difference between sequential file and a dataset? When to use
the copy stage? Subscribe
Asked by: vsarita80
Latest Answer: hi allsequential file:it act as a source & permanent storage for
target.it 's extend is .txt.dat... Last Updated By kirupakaran on December 12,
2006
200. what is the purpose of exception activity in data stage 7.5? Subscribe
Latest Answer: The stages followed by exception activity will be executed whenev
er there is an unknown error occurs... Last Updated By vimalt on July 13, 2006
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201. How i create datastage Engine stop start script.Actually my idea is as bel
ow.!#bin/bashdsadm - user
How i create datastage Engine stop start script.Actually my idea is as below.!#b
in/bashdsadm - usersu - rootpassword (encript)DSHOMEBIN=/Ascential/DataStage/hom
e/dsadm/Ascential/DataStage/DSEngine/binif check ps -ef | grep DataStage (client
connection is there) { kill -9 PID (client connection) }uv -admin - stop > dev/
nulluv -admin - start > dev/nullverify processcheck the connectionecho "Started
properly"run it as dsadm Subscribe
Asked by: DHEERENDRA SINGH
202. How do u check for the consistency and integrity of model and repository?
Subscribe
Asked by: mahesh
203. What does separation option in static hash-file mean? Subscribe

Asked by: mahesh
Latest Answer: The different hashing algorithms are designed to distribute recor
ds evenly among the groups of the f... Last Updated By Navatha on July 06, 200
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204. give one real time situation where link partitioner stage used? Subscribe
Latest Answer: If we want to send more data from the source to the targets quick
ly we will be using the link partio... Last Updated By praveenkumar on August
20, 2006
205. What is the difference between Symetrically parallel processing,Massively
parallel processing? Subscribe
Asked by: balu
Read / Answer
206. How to implement slowly changing dimentions in Datastage? Subscribe

Asked by: balu
Latest Answer: In Informatica powercenter, there is a way to implement slowly ch
anging dimension through wizard. Da... Last Updated By vimalt on July 13, 2006
207. what is data stage engine?what is its purpose? Subscribe

Latest Answer: Datastage sever contains Datastage engine DS Server will interact
with Client components and Reposit... Last Updated By JOHN DANIEL on November
08, 2006
208. what is the size of the flat file? Subscribe

Latest Answer: The flat file size depends amount of data contained by that flat
file... Last Updated By Dharmendra on September 22, 2006
209. how to improve the performance of hash file? Subscribe

Latest Answer: Hi You can inprove performance of hashed file by 1 .Preloading ha
sh file into memory -->this can ... Last Updated By Saket Garg on July 04, 200
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210. Actually my requirement is like that :Here is the codification suggested:

SALE_HEADER_XXXXX_YYYYMM
Actually my requirement is like that :Here is the codification suggested: SALE_H
EADER_XXXXX_YYYYMMDD.PSVSALE_LINE_XXXXX_YYYYMMDD.PSVXXXXX = LVM sequence to ensu
re unicity and continuity of file exchangesCaution, there will an increment to i
mplement.YYYYMMDD = LVM date of file creation COMPRESSION AND DELIVERY TO: SALE_
HEADER_XXXXX_YYYYMMDD.ZIP AND SALE_LINE_XXXXX_YYYYMMDD.ZIPif we run that job the
target file names are like this sale_header_1_20060206 & sale_line_1_20060206.i
f we run next Subscribe
Asked by: sreedhar kancherla
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211. Other than Round Robin, What is the algorithm used in link collecter? Also
Explain How it will wor
Other than Round Robin, What is the algorithm used in link collecter? Also Expla
in How it will works? Subscribe
212. Have you ever involved in updating the DS versions like DS 5.X, if so tell
us some the steps you ha
Have you ever involved in updating the DS versions like DS 5.X, if so tell us so
me the steps you have Subscribe
Asked by: geek61
213. My requirement is like this :Here is the codification suggested: SALE_HEAD
ER_XXXXX_YYYYMMDD.PSVSALE
My requirement is like this :Here is the codification suggested: SALE_HEADER_XXX
XX_YYYYMMDD.PSVSALE_LINE_XXXXX_YYYYMMDD.PSVXXXXX = LVM sequence to ensure unicit
y and continuity of file exchangesCaution, there will an increment to implement.
YYYYMMDD = LVM date of file creation COMPRESSION AND DELIVERY TO: SALE_HEADER_XX
XXX_YYYYMMDD.ZIP AND SALE_LINE_XXXXX_YYYYMMDD.ZIPif we run that job the target f
ile names are like this sale_header_1_20060206 & sale_line_1_20060206.If we run
next time means the Subscribe
Asked by: sreedhar k
214. How to know the no.of records in a sequential file before running a server
job? Subscribe
Asked by: laxman
Latest Answer: if your environment is unix , you can check with wc -l filename c
ommand.... Last Updated By vijaya kumar peruri on July 28, 2006
215. what is the transaction size and array size in OCI stage?how these can be
used? Subscribe
Latest Answer: Transaction Size - This field exists for backward compatibility,
but it is ignored for release ... Last Updated By laxman on July 24, 2006
216. What are the Environmental variables in Datastage? Subscribe

Asked by: Chidanand
217. how do u clean the datastage repository. Subscribe

Asked by: kashif
Latest Answer: CLEAR.FILE &PH&... Last Updated By Bunny on August 25, 2006
218. What is the difference between Transform and Routine in DataStage? Subscri
be
Asked by: ETL
Latest Answer: Transformar transform the data from one from to another form .whe
re as Routines describes the busine... Last Updated By JOHN DANIEL on November
08, 2006
219. How to run the job in command prompt in unix? Subscribe

Asked by: Badri
Latest Answer: Using dsjob command,-optionsdsjob -run -jobstatus projectname job
nameThanks,Srini... Last Updated By Srini on August 01, 2006
220. HI How can we create read only jobs in Datastage. Subscribe

Asked by: BABU S
Latest Answer: in export there is an options just CLICK ON OPTIONS TAB THEN THER
E UNDER INCLUDE OPTIONU WILL FIND R... Last Updated By mady on August 18, 2006
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221. How do you call procedures in datastage? Subscribe
Asked by: Reddy
Latest Answer: Use the Stored Procedure Stage... Last Updated By Pradeep Menon
on August 08, 2006
222. How do you remove duplicates without using remove duplicate stage? Subscri
be
Asked by: Reddy
Latest Answer: You can do it at any stage.Just do a hash partion of the input da
ta and check the options Sort and U... Last Updated By c2 on September 05, 200
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223. What are the new features of Datastage 7.1 from datastage 6.1 Subscribe
Asked by: BABU
224. What is the difference between DataStage and DataStage Scripting? Subscrib
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Asked by: Gudduy
225. What is environment variables?what is the use of this? Subscribe

Asked by: Ram
Latest Answer: Thanks... Last Updated By Ram on August 17, 2006
226. Can you tell me for what puorpse .dsx files are used in the datasatage Sub
scribe
Asked by: praveen kumar. G
Latest Answer: you can as well export the Datastage jobs in .xml format.........
Last Updated By srividya on August 25, 2006
227. Hiwhat is difference betweend ETL and ELT? Subscribe

Asked by: Srinubabu
Latest Answer: ETL-> transformation takes place in staging area and in ELT-> tra
nsormation takes at either so... Last Updated By sunil on October 18, 2006
228. if we using two sources having same meta data and how to check the data in
two sorces is same or n
if we using two sources having same meta data and how to check the data in two s
orces is same or not?and if the data is not same i want to abort the job ?how we
can do this? Subscribe
229. How can I schedule the cleaning of the file &PH& by dsjob? Subscribe
Asked by: Bernardo
Latest Answer: Create a job with dummy transformer and sequentail file stage. In
Before Job subroutine, use ExecTCL... Last Updated By rameshrr3 on November 1
0, 2006
230. what is quality stage and profile stage? Subscribe
Asked by: nvsmitha
Latest Answer: Quality Stage:It is used for cleansing ,Profile stage:It is used
for profiling ... Last Updated By Bharath narahari on December 05, 2006
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231. how to find the process id?explain with steps? Subscribe
Latest Answer: U can also use Data stage Administrator.Just click on the project
and execute command ,just follow t... Last Updated By Bharath narahari on Dec
ember 05, 2006 (Answers: 4)
232. how to distinguish the surogate key in different dimensional tables?how ca

n we give for different d
how to distinguish the surogate key in different dimensional tables?how can we g
ive for different dimension tables? Subscribe
233. What is the difference bitween OCI stage and ODBC stage? Subscribe
Asked by: pavan
Latest Answer: Oracle OCI: · We... Last Updated By Radha on Septem
ber 07, 2006
234. Could anyone plz tell abt the full details of Datastage Certification.Titl
e of Certification?Amount
Could anyone plz tell abt the full details of Datastage Certification.Title of C
ertification?Amount for Certification test?Where can v get the Tutorials availab
le for certification?Who is Conducting the Certification Exam?Whether any traini
ng institute or person for guidens?I am very much pleased if anyone enlightwn me
abt the above saidSuresh Subscribe
Asked by: Suresh
235. Is there any difference b/n Ascential DataStage and DataStage. Subscribe
Asked by: Jagan
Latest Answer: There is no difference between Ascential Datastage and Datastage
,Now its IBM websphere Datastage ea... Last Updated By meenamanukondu on Septe
mber 06, 2006
236. Hello,Can both Source system(Oracle,SQLServer,...etc) and Target Data ware

house(may be oracle,SQLSe
Hello,Can both Source system(Oracle,SQLServer,...etc) and Target Data warehouse(
may be oracle,SQLServer..etc) can be on windows environment or one of the system
should be in UNIX/Linux environment.Thanks,Jagan Subscribe
Asked by: jagan
237. What is Runtime Column Propagation and how to use it? Subscribe
Asked by: pratap.behera
Latest Answer: If your job has more columns which are not defined in metadata if
runtime propagation is enabled it ... Last Updated By rajeev on September 08,
2006
238. how we use the DataStage Director and its run-time engine to schedule runn
ing the solution, testing
how we use the DataStage Director and its run-time engine to schedule running th
e solution, testing and debugging its components, and monitoring the resulting e
/xecutable versions on ad hoc or scheduled basis? Subscribe
Asked by: kamal
239. What is Ad-Hoc access? What is the difference between Managed Query and Ad
-Hoc access? Subscribe
Asked by: Devi Ramesh
240. What is the difference between reference link and straight link ? Subscrib
e
Asked by: Dharmendra
Latest Answer: hiThe differerence between reference link and straight link isThe
straight link is the one where dat... Last Updated By starsaran007 on Septemb
er 30, 2006
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241. I have few questions1. What ar ethe various process which starts when the
datastage engine starts?2
I have few questions1. What ar ethe various process which starts when the datast
age engine starts?2. What are the changes need to be done on the database side,
If I have to use dB2 stage?3. datastage engine is responsible for compilation or
execution or both? Subscribe
Asked by: kannu
242. How to write and execute routines for PX jobs in c++? Subscribe
Asked by: Rajesh Devabhaktuni
Latest Answer: You have to write routine in C++ (g++ in Unix). then you have to
create a object file. provide this ... Last Updated By Kiran on November 02, 2
006
243. 1 1. Difference between Hashfile and Sequential File?. What is modulus?2 2

. What is iconv and oconv
1 1. Difference between Hashfile and Sequential File?. What is modulus?2 2. What
is iconv and oconv functions?.3 3. How can we join one Oracle source and Sequen
tial file?.4 4. How can we implement Slowly Changing Dimensions in DataStage?.5
5. How can we implement Lookup in DataStage Server jobs?.6 6. What are all the t
hird party tools used in DataStage?.7 7. what is the difference between routine
and transform and function?.8 8. what are the Job parameters?.9 9. Plug-in?.10 1
0.How can we improv Subscribe
Asked by: Zias
244. what is pivot stage?why are u using?what purpose that stage will be used?
Subscribe
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Latest Answer: First of all thanks to srilaxmi for your skill in pivot stage.Piv
ot stage supports only horizontal p... Last Updated By laxman on October 24, 2
006
245. how to eleminate duplicate rows in data stage? Subscribe

Asked by: pavan
Latest Answer: There are two methods for eleminating duplicate rows in datastage
1. Using hash file stage (Specify t... Last Updated By ravi on December 11, 20
06
246. how can we load source into ODS? Subscribe
Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: What is ur source?. Depending on type of source, you have to use
respective stage.like oracle enterp... Last Updated By hanug on December 12, 2
006
247. how do we create index in data satge? Subscribe

Asked by: yukthi
248. how can we create environment variables in datasatage? Subscribe

Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Hi This mostely will comes under Administrator part.As a Designer
only we can add directly byDesigne... Last Updated By ashok on October 12, 20
06
249. what is the difference between static hash files n dynamic hash files? Sub
scribe
Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: thanxs...... Last Updated By yukthi on October 12, 2006
250. what is a routine? Subscribe

Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Routine is user defined functions that can be reusable with in th
e project.... Last Updated By Kiran on November 02, 2006
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251. How can we Test jobs in Datastage?? Subscribe
Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Hi Configuration of u'r system is fine. I don't think therez prob
lem in the installation too.there r... Last Updated By kumar on November 22, 2
006
252. What is the use of Hash file??insted of hash file why can we use sequentia
l file itself? Subscribe
Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: these files are stored in the memory hence faster performance tha
n from a sequential file... Last Updated By jessa on October 24, 2006
253. how can we test the jobs? Subscribe
Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Thanxs...... Last Updated By yukthi on October 12, 2006
254. what is an environment variable?? Subscribe
Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Here is the full FAQ on this topic:Creating project specific envi
ronment variables- Start up DataSta... Last Updated By the_xxx on March 21, 20
07
255. how can we generate a surrogate key in server/parallel jobs? Subscribe

Asked by: praveen
Latest Answer: You can also generate the surrogate key in the database using the
sequence generator.... Last Updated By Kiran on November 02, 2006
256. how to read the data from XL FILES?explain with steps? Subscribe
Latest Answer: Create a new DSN for the Excel driver and choose the workbook fro
m which u want dataSelect the ODBC ... Last Updated By S on October 30, 2006
257. how to distinguish the surrogate key in different dimentional tables? Subs
cribe
Latest Answer: the Surrogate key will be the key field in the dimensions.... Las
t Updated By Kiran on November 02, 2006
258. whats the meaning of performance tunning techinque,Example?? Subscribe

Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: HI,is this only related with server jobs .because in parallel ext
ender these things are taken care b... Last Updated By trinity on October 28,
2006
259. hi..Disadvantages of staging area Thanks,Jagan Subscribe

Asked by: Jagan
Latest Answer: Yes, its like a disadvantage of staging area, it takes more space
in database and it may not be cost... Last Updated By RAVI on March 02, 2007
260. how to read the data from XL FILES?my problem is my data file having some
commas in data,but we ar
how to read the data from XL FILES?my problem is my data file having some commas
in data,but we are using delimitor is| ?how to read the data ,explain with step
s? Subscribe
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261. differentiate between pipeline and partion parallelism? Subscribe
Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: consider three cpu connected in series. When data is being fed in
to the first one,it start proc... Last Updated By manraj on October 25, 2006
(Answers: 1) Read / Answer
262. what are the main diff between server job and parallel job in datastage Su
bscribe
Asked by: prasanna
Latest Answer: server jobs can compile and run with in datastage server but para
llel jobs can compile and run with ... Last Updated By N.sukumar on December 2
6, 2006 (Answers: 3) Read / Answer
263. what is complex stage?In which situation we are using this one? Subscribe
Asked by: BHARETH REDDY
Latest Answer: A complex flat file can be used to read the data at the intial le
vel. By using CFF, we can read ASCI... Last Updated By amardeep.reddy on Decem
ber 06, 2006 (Answers: 2) Read / Answer
264. Why is hash file is faster than sequential file n odbc stage?? Subscribe
Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Hash file is indexed. Also it works under hashing algo. That's wh
y the search is faster in hash file... Last Updated By Lavanya on November 08,
2006 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer
265. how can we improve performance in aggregator stage?? Subscribe

Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Select the most appropriate partitioning method based on the data
analysis. Hash partitoning perform... Last Updated By prav2000 on December 21
, 2006 (Answers: 2) Read / Answer
266. What is Integrated & Unit testing in DataStage ? Subscribe

Asked by: izack
Latest Answer: Unit Testing: &nb... Last Updated By BALU on Decem
ber 04, 2006 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer
267. Why job sequence is use for? what is batches?what is the difference betwee
n job sequence and batche
Why job sequence is use for? what is batches?what is the difference between job
sequence and batches? Subscribe
Asked by: prashant
Read / Answer
268. Hot Fix for ODBC Stage for AS400 V5R4 in Data Stage 7.1 Subscribe
Asked by: Girolamo Falbo
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269. what are two types of hash files?? Subscribe

Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: the two type of hash file are, 1) static and 2) dynamic,,,,, the
dynamic hash file is again subdivid... Last Updated By prashant narayani on De
cember 27, 2006 (Answers: 4) Read / Answer
270. how can we improve the job performance? Subscribe

Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: We can put hash file in lookup. This will index the input data ba
sed on key column (which we define)... Last Updated By Bhaskar on December 29,
2006
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271. Where can you output data using the Peek Stage? Subscribe
Asked by: Ram
Latest Answer: The output of peek stage can be viewed in director LOG and also i
t can be saved as a seperate text f... Last Updated By karthik on February 21,
272. For what purpose is the Stage Variable is mainly used? Subscribe
Asked by: Prashant Narayani
Latest Answer: The stage variable can be used in situations where U want to Stor
e a Previous record value in a vari... Last Updated By Srinivasa R Gummadi on
November 19, 2006 (Answers: 2) Read / Answer
273. what are different types of file formats?? Subscribe

Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: .csv files. dxs files( standard extension of data stage)... Last
Updated By PRASHANT NARAYANI on December 26, 2006 (Answers: 2) Read / An
swer
274. What are different dimension table in your project??Plz explain me with an
example?? Subscribe
Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: hi, for this question u cant say exact number of dimension tables
in your project,, so tell hi... Last Updated By PRASHANT NARAYANI on December
275. What is a sequential file that has single input link?? Subscribe
Asked by: yukthi
Read / Answer
276. What is the use of tunnable?? Subscribe

Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Tunable is project property in Datastage Administrator, in that w
e can change the value of cache siz... Last Updated By Ravi on December 18, 20
277. What is the sequencer stage?? Subscribe

Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Lets say there are two jobs (J1 & J2) as the input links and one
job (J3) as output link for a s... Last Updated By amardeep.reddy on December
278. What are different types of star schema?? Subscribe

Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Multi star schema or galaxy schema is one of the type of star sch
ema... Last Updated By PRASHANT NARAYANI on December 27, 2006 (Answers: 1)
Read / Answer
279. What is the use of job controle?? Subscribe

Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Job control is used for scripting. With the help of scripting, we
can set parameters for a caller jo... Last Updated By Vijaykumar Kharwandikar
on December 28, 2006 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer
280. What is the alternative way where we can do job control?? Subscribe
Asked by: yukthi
Latest Answer: Jobcontrol can be done using :Datastage job SequencersDatastage C
ustom routinesScriptingScheduling t... Last Updated By Vennela17 on February 2
2, 2007
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281. What is user activity in datastage? Subscribe
Asked by: Ananth
Latest Answer: The User variable activity stage defines some variables,those are
used in the sequence in future..... Last Updated By Prashant Narayani on Dece
mber 29, 2006 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer
282. What does # indicate in environment variables? Subscribe

Asked by: PRASHANT NARAYANI
Latest Answer: It is used to identify the parameter.... Last Updated By Vijaykum
ar Kharwandikar on December 28, 2006 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer
283. Is it possible to query a hash file? Justify your answer... Subscribe

Asked by: prashant narayani
Latest Answer: You can also use a Universe stage if the data is need in your job
. I don't recall all details when I... Last Updated By John on February 08, 20
284. Suppose you have table "sample" & three columns in that tablesample:Cola C
olb Colc1
Suppose you have table "sample" & three columns in that tablesample:Cola Colb Co
lc1 10 1002 20 2003 30 300Assume: cola is primary keyHow will you fetch the reco
rd with maximum cola value using data stage tool into the target system Subscrib
e
Asked by: Waseem
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285. How to run a job using command line? Subscribe

Latest Answer: dsjob -run -jobstatus projectname jobname... Last Updated By ram
on January 07, 2007 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer
286. What is the diffrence between IBM Web Sphere DataStage 7.5 (Enterprise Edi
tion ) & Standard Ascenti
What is the diffrence between IBM Web Sphere DataStage 7.5 (Enterprise Edition )
& Standard Ascential DataStage 7.5 Version ? Subscribe
Asked by: izack
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287. What is the diffrence between the Dynamic RDBMS Stage & Static RDBMS Stage
? Subscribe
Asked by: izack
Read / Answer
288. What is the difference betwen Merge Stage and Lookup Stage? Subscribe
Asked by: Ram
Latest Answer: Lookup stage:1. Used to perform lookups.2. Multiple reference lin
ks, single input link, single outpu... Last Updated By srinivasguptha on Janua
ry 29, 2007 (Answers: 2) Read / Answer
289. What is Fact loading, how to do it? Subscribe

Latest Answer: Once we have loaded our dimensions, then as per business requirem
ents we identify the facts(columns ... Last Updated By Amjad on February 23, 2
290. Aggregators What does the warning Hash table has grown to xyz
Aggregators What does the warning Hash table has grown to xyz . mean? Subscribe
Asked by: Manraj
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291. Which partition we have to used for Aggregate Stage in parallel jobs ? Sub
scribe
Asked by: izack
Latest Answer: By default this stage allows Auto mode of partitioning. The best
partitioning is based on the operat... Last Updated By srinivasguptha on Janua
ry 28, 2007 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer
292. Where we can use these Stages Link Partetionar, Link Collector & Inter Pro
cess (OCI) Stage whether
Where we can use these Stages Link Partetionar, Link Collector & Inter Process (
OCI) Stage whether in Server Jobs or in Parallel Jobs ? And SMP is a Parallel or
Server ? Subscribe
Asked by: izack
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293. What is TX and what is the use of this in DataStage ? As I know TX stand f
or Transformer Extender,
What is TX and what is the use of this in DataStage ? As I know TX stand for Tra
nsformer Extender, but I don't know how it will work and where we will used ? Su
bscribe
Asked by: izack
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294. How to enable the datastage engine? Subscribe

Asked by: sivanov21
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295. what is hashing algorithm? Subscribe

Asked by: sivanov21
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296. what is the difference between RELEASE THE JOB and KILL THE JOB? Subscribe
Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: HiRelease the job is to release the job from any dependencies and
run it.Kill the job means kill the... Last Updated By deepa on February 26, 2
297. How can we remove duplicates using sort stage? Subscribe

Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: TreeSet set = new TreeSet(Arrays.asList(names)); ... Last Upd
ated By Alex on February 28, 2007 (Answers: 2) Read / Answer
298. In which situation,we are using RUN TIME COLUMN PROPAGATION option? Subscr
ibe
Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: Run time column propagation is used in case of partial schema usa
ge. when we only know about the col... Last Updated By poonam on February 14,
299. What is repository? Subscribe

Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: Repository is a content which is having all metadata (information
).... Last Updated By prasad on February 24, 2007 (Answers: 2) Read / An
swer
300. what is the difference between datasatge and datastage TX? Subscribe
Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: Hi, WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) is the universal tran
sformation engine for WebSphere th... Last Updated By veeru_veeru on February
13, 2007
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301. how find duplicate records using transformer stage in server edition Subsc
ribe
Asked by: prasad
Latest Answer: Transformer stage to identify and remove duplicates from one outp
ut, and direct all input rows to an... Last Updated By the_xxx on March 20, 20
302. Type 30D hash file is GENERIC or SPECIFIC? Subscribe

Asked by: sivanov21
Read / Answer
303. what is the use of environmental variables? Subscribe

Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: Enviroment Variables are the one who set the enviroments.Oce you
set these varicables in datastage y... Last Updated By raghumreddy on March 14
304. how can we run the batch using command line? Subscribe
Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: DSJOB Command is the command to run the datastage jobs from comma
nd line . in the older architecture... Last Updated By raghumreddy on March 14
305. what is fact load? Subscribe

Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: In a star schema there will be facts and dimension tables to load
in any datawarehouse environ... Last Updated By raghumreddy on March 14, 200
306. Does type of partitioning change for SMP and MPP systems? Subscribe
Asked by: infinity
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307. Explain a specific scenario where we would use range partitioning ? Subscr
ibe
Asked by: infinity
Latest Answer: If the datais large and if you cannot process the the full data i
n one time process you will general... Last Updated By raghumreddy on March 14
308. what is panthom error in data stage Subscribe

Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: For every job in DataStage, a phantom is generated for the job as
well as for every active stage whi... Last Updated By the_xxx on March 19, 20
309. what is job commit in datastage? Subscribe

Asked by: sivanov21
Latest Answer: If you see datastage job commits each record in general cases. bu
t you can force the datastage to ta... Last Updated By Raghu Mule on March 14,
310. How do you configure api_dump Subscribe

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311. How can we increment the surrogate key value for every insert in to target
database Subscribe
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312. How will you pass the parameter to the job schedule if the job is running
at night? What happens if
How will you pass the parameter to the job schedule if the job is running at nig
ht? What happens if one job fails in the night? Subscribe
Asked by: kundan
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313. What is the difference between Datastage Server jobs and Datastage Paralle
l jobs? Subscribe
Asked by: Gnaneshwar
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314. What is the difference between Job Control and Job Sequence Subscribe
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315. Is it possible to calculate a hash total for an EBCDIC file and have the h
ash total stored as EBCDI
Is it possible to calculate a hash total for an EBCDIC file and have the hash to
tal stored as EBCDIC using Datastage? Subscribe
Currently, the total is converted to ASCII, even tho the individual records are
stored as EBCDIC. Asked by: duckcats
Read / Answer
316. how to attach a mtr file (MapTrace) via email and the MapTrace is used to
record all the execute ma
how to attach a mtr file (MapTrace) via email and the MapTrace is used to record
all the execute map errors Subscribe
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317. What is Phantom error in the datastage. How to overcome this error. Subscr
ibe
Asked by: madhuker
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318. How to install and configure DataStage EE on Sun Micro systems multi-proce
ssor hardware running the
How to install and configure DataStage EE on Sun Micro systems multi-processor h
ardware running the Solaris 9 operating system? Subscribe
Asked by: Kapil Jayne
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319. How do you load partial data after job failed Subscribe
source has 10000 records, Job failed after 5000 records are loaded. This status
of the job is abort , Instead of removing 5000 records from target , How can i r
esume the load Asked by: Hari Kishore
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320. What are the important considerations while using join stage instead of lo
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1. Dimension Modelling types along with their significance Subscribe

3. Orchestrate Vs Datastage Parallel Extender? Subscribe

4. Differentiate Primary Key and Partition Key? Subscribe

6. What are Stage Variables, Derivations and Constants? Subscribe

9. Compare and Contrast ODBC and Plug-In stages? Subscribe

13. Functionality of Link Partitioner and Link Collector? Subscribe

14. What is Modulus and Splitting in Dynamic Hashed File? Subscribe

15. Types of vies in Datastage Director? Subscribe

16. Differentiate Database data and Data warehouse data? Subscribe

20. Why do you use SQL LOADER or OCI STAGE? Subscribe

22. How do you populate source files? Subscribe

24. What happens if the job fails at night? Subscribe

25. What is SQL tuning? how do you do it ? Subscribe

30. Explain your last project and your role in it.?

33. Tell me the environment in your last projects Subscribe

38. What versions of DS you worked with? Subscribe

39. What other ETL's you have worked with? Subscribe

40. Did you work in UNIX environment? Subscribe

42. Explain the differences between Oracle8i/9i? Subscribe

44. Do u know about METASTAGE? Subscribe

45. How did u connect to DB2 in your last project? Subscribe

49. How did you handle reject data? Subscribe

52. What are Sequencers? Subscribe

54. Read the String functions in DS Subscribe

64. Difference between Hashfile and Sequential File? Subscribe

65. What is iconv and oconv functions? Subscribe

68. How can we implement Lookup in DataStage Server jobs? Subscribe

72. How can we improve the performance of DataStage jobs? Subscribe

73. How can we create Containers? Subscribe

74. When should we use ODS? Subscribe

76. How to handle Date convertions in Datastage? Convert a mm/dd/yyyy format to

Latest Answer: U can call external functions, subroutines by using Before/After

79. Dimensional modelling is again sub divided into 2 types. Subscribe

80. how to create batches in Datastage from command prompt

82. What is DS Administrator used for - did u use it? Subscribe

83. What is DS Designer used for - did u use it? Subscribe

85. How do you eliminate duplicate rows? Subscribe

86. What are types of Hashed File? Subscribe

87. What is DS Manager used for - did u use it? Subscribe

88. What is DS Director used for - did u use it? Subscribe

89. How do we do the automation of dsjobs? Subscribe

90. How do you merge two files in DS? Subscribe

94. what is difference between data stage and informatica Subscribe

96. How many places u can call Routines? Subscribe

103. how can we pass parameters to job by using file. Subscribe

104. What is ' insert for update ' in datastage Subscribe

106. What is version Control? Subscribe

114. What is APT_CONFIG in datastage Subscribe

116. what is merge ?and how to use merge? Subscribe

117. what is difference between serverjobs & paraller jobs Subscribe

118. what is DataStage Multi-byte, Single-byte file conversions in Mainframe jo

120. How can ETL excel file to Datamart? Subscribe

126. How can you implement Complex Jobs in datastage Subscribe

128. how can you do incremental load in datastage? Subscribe

142. what is the difference between datastage and informatica Subscribe

144. What are orabulk and bcp stages? Subscribe

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