Difference between Hashfile and Sequential File?

How to run the job in command prompt in unix?

what is the new version in Datastage ? what is the diff b/t New vesion & 7.5 version?
Tell me one situation from your last project, where you had faced problem and How did u solve it?
What are Routines and where/how are they written and have you written any routines before?
What versions of DS you worked with?
What is DS Administrator used for - did u use it?
What is DS Manager used for - did u use it?
What is difference between Merge stage and Join stage? View Answer
# How does DataStage handle the user security?
What is the exact difference betwwen Join,Merge and Lookup Stage??
How do you eliminate duplicate rows?
How to handle Date convertions in Datastage? Convert a mm/dd/yyyy format to yyyy-dd-mm?
What are the Job parameters?
What is environment variables?what is the use of this?
What are Stage Variables?
What does a Config File in parallel extender consist of?
What is Modulus and Splitting in Dynamic Hashed File?
What is the difference between sequential file and a dataset? When to use the copy stage?
What is the order of execution done internally in the transformer with the stage editor having input links on the lft hand side a
output links?
Functionality of Link Partitioner and Link Collector?
How much would be the size of the database in DataStage ? What is the difference between Inprocess and Interprocess ?

How to handle the rejected rows in datastage?

How do you populate source files?
If a DataStage job aborts after say 1000 records, how to continue the job from 1000th record after fixing the error?
How do u clean the datastage repository.
Types of Parallel Processing?

What is the transaction size and array size in OCI stage?how these can be used?

How to improve the performance of hash file?

How to implement slowly changing dimentions in Datastage?
What is the difference between Symetrically parallel processing,Massively parallel processing?
What does separation option in static hash-file mean?
With out using Funnel Stage, how to populate the data from different sources to single target
which r the connectors used in san?
describe the Steps to confiure a Qlogic switch
why do u need the IOS upgradation in a FC switch
In merge stage can we update the values?
How to create user defined environment varibale(parameter)?
Difference in the implementation of lookup and join stages,in joining two tables?
what is the unix script to run the job? Please mention commands which we use often?
When we will go for Data elements?
If I make any changes in the parallel job,do I need to implement the changes in the sequencer job,else the changes will be
reflected automatically
In Informatica,for the table I can find coreesponding dependent mappings.Likewise can I find the dependent jobs with all the
information by using the table name
How do you rename all of the jobs to support your new File-naming conventions?
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 so
kind of Delete logic.
The above might rise another question: Why do we have to load the dimensional tables first, then fact tables:
How will you determine the sequence of jobs to load into data warehouse?
What are the command line functions that import and export the DS jobs?
What is the utility you use to schedule the jobs on a UNIX server other than using Ascential Director?
How would call an external Java function which are not supported by DataStage?
What will you in a situation where somebody wants to send you a file and use that file as an input or reference and then run j

Read the String functions in DS

How did u connect with DB2 in your last project?
What are Sequencers?
How did you handle an 'Aborted' sequencer?
What are other Performance tunings you have done in your last project to increase the performance of slowly running jobs?

How did you handle reject data?

If worked with DS6.0 and latest versions what are Link-Partitioner and Link-Collector used for?
What are OConv () and Iconv () functions and where are they used?
How did u connect to DB2 in your last project?
Do u know about METASTAGE?
Do you know about INTEGRITY/QUALITY stage?
Explain the differences between Oracle8i/9i?
How good are you with your PL/SQL?
Did you work in UNIX environment?
What other ETL's you have worked with?
What are Static Hash files and Dynamic Hash files?
What is Hash file stage and what is it used for?
Have you ever involved in updating the DS versions like DS 5.X, if so tell us some the steps you have taken in doing so?

Did you Parameterize the job or hard-coded the values in the jobs?
How do you merge two files in DS?
What is the purpose of exception activity in data stage 7.5? View Answer
Where we use link partitioner in data stage job?explain with example? View Answer
How to kill the job in data stage? View Answer

How to parametarise a field in a sequential file?I am using Datastage as ETL Tool,Sequential file as source. View Answer
How to drop the index befor loading data in target and how to rebuild it in data stage? View Answer
If the size of the Hash file exceeds 2GB..What happens? Does it overwrite the current rows? View Answer
It is possible to access the same job two users at a time in datastage? View Answer
How to find errors in job sequence? View Answer
What is job control?how can it used explain with steps? View Answer
What is job control?how it is developed?explain with steps? View Answer
How we can call the routine in datastage job?explain with steps? View Answer
What are the most important aspects that a beginner must consider doin his first DS project ? View Answer
What are the different types of lookups in datastage? View Answer
Where actually the flat files store?what is the path? View Answer
How to find the number of rows in a sequential file? View Answer
How to implement type2 slowly changing dimenstion in datastage? give me with example? View Answer
wht is the difference beteen validated ok and compiled in datastage. View Answer
What are the environment variables in datastage?give some examples? View Answer
Purpose of using the key and difference between Surrogate keys and natural key
How do you do Usage analysis in datastage ?
How to remove duplicates in server job
Will the data stage consider the second constraint in the transformer once the first condition is satisfied ( if the link odering is
given)
* What are constraints and derivation? * Explain the process of taking backup in DataStage? *What are the different types of
lookups available in DataStage?
What is a project? Specify its various components?
Briefly describe the various client components?
What are the Steps involved in development of a job in DataStage?
what is meaning of file extender in data stage server jobs. can we run the data stage job from one job to another job that file
data where it is stored and what is the file extender in ds jobs.
What is the difference between drs and odbc stage
How to use rank&updatestratergy in datastage
What is the max capacity of Hash file in DataStage?
How I can convert Server Jobs into Parallel Jobs?
Is it possible to move the data from oracle ware house to SAP Warehouse using with DATASTAGE Tool.
How to implement type2 slowly changing dimensions in data stage?explain with example?
What is hashing algorithm and explain breafly how it works?
It is possible to call one job in another job in server jobs?

1.What about System variables? 2.How can we create Containers? 3.How can we improve the performance of DataStage?
4.what are the Job parameters? 5.what is the difference between routine and transform and function? 6.What are all the thir
party 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
functions? 11.Difference between Hashfile and Sequential File? 12. Maximum how many characters we can give for a Job nam
DataStage?
If I add a new environment variable in Windows, how can I access it in DataStage?
What are the enhancements made in datastage 7.5 compare with 7.0
What is data set? and what is file set?
How the hash file is doing lookup in serverjobs?How is it comparing the key values?
What are the differences between the data stage 7.0 and 7.5 in server jobs?
It is possible to run parallel jobs in server jobs?
What are orabulk and bcp stages?
How is datastage 4.0 functionally different from the enterprise edition now?? what are the exact changes?
What is the difference between datastage and informatica
DataStage from Staging to MDW is only running at 1 row per second! What do we do to remedy?
What user varibale activity when it used how it used !where it is used with real example
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 type?
Can any one tell me how to extract data from more than 1 hetrogenious Sources. mean, example 1 sequenal file, Sybase , Ora
in a singale Job.
Can we use shared container as lookup in datastage server jobs?
How can I specify a filter command for processing data while defining sequential file output data?
What are validations you perform after creating jobs in designer. What r the different type of errors u faced during loading an
how u solve them
What is the difference between Datastage and Datastage TX?
If data is partitioned in your job on key 1 and then you aggregate on key 2, what issues could arise?
If your running 4 ways parallel and you have 10 stages on the canvas, how many processes does datastage create?
How can you do incremental load in datastage?
Does Enterprise Edition only add the parallel processing for better performance? Are any stages/transformations available in
enterprise edition only?
How can you implement Complex Jobs in datastage

How can u implement slowly changed dimensions in datastage? explain? 2) can u join flat file and database in datastage?how
How to implement routines in data stage,have any one has any material for data stage pl send to me
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 standar
2)logic to run jobs in parallel 3)Tuning should occur on a job-by-job basis. Use the power of DBMS.
what is the mean of Try to have the constraints in the 'Selection' criteria of the jobs itself. This will eliminate the unnecessary
records even getting in before joins are made?
How can ETL excel file to Datamart?
What is difference between serverjobs & paraller jobs
What is merge ?and how to use merge?

How we use NLS function in Datastage? what are advantages of NLS function? where we can use that one? explain briefly?
What is APT_CONFIG in datastage

What is NLS in datastage? how we use NLS in Datastage ? what advantages in that ? at the time of installation i am not choos
that NLS option , now i want to use that options what can i do ? to reinstall that datastage or first uninstall and install once
again ?
What is the OCI? and how to use the ETL Tools?
How can I connect my DB2 database on AS400 to DataStage? Do I need to use ODBC 1st to open the database connectivity an
then use an adapter for just connecting between the two? Thanks alot of any replies.

How can I extract data from DB2 (on IBM iSeries) to the data warehouse via Datastage as the ETL tool. I mean do I first need t
use ODBC to create connectivity and use an adapter for the extraction and transformation of data? Thanks so much if anybod
could provide an answer.
What is merge and how it can be done plz explain with simple example taking 2 tables .......
Please list out the versions of datastage Parallel , server editions and in which year they are realised.
What happends out put of hash file is connected to transformer .. What error it throughs
What is version Control?
What are the Repository Tables in DataStage and What are they?
What is ' insert for update ' in datastage
How can we pass parameters to job by using file.
Where does unix script of datastage executes weather in clinet machine or in server.suppose if it eexcutes on server then it w
execute ?
Defaults nodes for datastage parallel Edition
What Happens if RCP is disable ?
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 .
What is difference between data stage and informatica
How do you fix the error "OCI has fetched truncated data" in DataStage
Importance of Surrogate Key in Data warehousing?

What's the difference between Datastage Developers and Datastage Designers. What are the skill's required for this.
How do you merge two files in DS?
How do we do the automation of dsjobs?
What is DS Director used for - did u use it?
What is DS Manager used for - did u use it?
What are types of Hashed File?
How do you eliminate duplicate rows?
What about System variables?
What is DS Designer used for - did u use it?
What is DS Administrator used for - did u use it?
Dimensional modelling is again sub divided into 2 types.
How will you call external function or subroutine from datastage?
How do you pass filename as the parameter for a job?
Whats difference betweeen operational data stage (ODS) & data warehouse?
How can we create Containers?
How can we improve the performance of DataStage jobs?
What are all the third party tools used in DataStage?
How can we implement Lookup in DataStage Server jobs?
How can we join one Oracle source and Sequential file?.
What is iconv and oconv functions?
What are the command line functions that import and export the DS jobs?
What is the utility you use to schedule the jobs on a UNIX server other than using Ascential Director?

What will you in a situation where somebody wants to send you a file and use that file as an input or reference and then run
What are Sequencers?

What are other Performance tunings you have done in your last project to increase the performance of slowly running jobs?
What are Routines and where/how are they written and have you written any routines before?
What are OConv () and Iconv () functions and where are they used?
Do u know about METASTAGE?
Do you know about INTEGRITY/QUALITY stage?
Explain the differences between Oracle8i/9i?
How good are you with your PL/SQL?
Did you work in UNIX environment?
What other ETL's you have worked with?
What are Static Hash files and Dynamic Hash files?
What is Hash file stage and what is it used for?
Did you Parameterize the job or hard-coded the values in the jobs?
Tell me the environment in your last projects
How many jobs have you created in your last project?
What r XML files and how do you read data from XML files and what stage to be used?
Why do you use SQL LOADER or OCI STAGE?
Suppose if there are million records did you use OCI? if not then what stage do you prefer?
How do you pass the parameter to the job sequence if the job is running at night?
What happens if the job fails at night?
What is SQL tuning? how do you do it ?
How do you remove duplicates without using remove duplicate stage?
How do you track performance statistics and enhance it?
What are the difficulties faced in using DataStage ? or what are the constraints in using DataStage ?
Differentiate Database data and Data warehouse data?
Dimension Modelling types along with their significance
What is the flow of loading data into fact & dimensional tables?
What is data file & descriptor file in dataset stage ? Plese expain briefly View Answer
What is the default cache size? How do you change the cache size if needed?
What is the difference between LOOK UP File Stage and LookUP stage ? View Answer
Containers : Usage and Types?
which one is the better partition to stages for performance in Enterprise edition?
Types of vies in Datastage Director?
1* what is the diffrance betwin DNS DHCP ? file system of windows? compare with nis & dns View Answer
Job type can't runnable in this plot form and view data server command error. to running the jobs this error can be displayed
View Answer
How can we write parallel routines in data stage PX, can anyone help out in this one quickly. If is any example programe its ve
helpful to me