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During the course of the week, the discussion happened regarding the different places where a person might read the DataStage and QualityStage logs in InfoSphere. I hadn’t really thought about it, but here are a few places that come to mind:
While investigating a recent Infosphere Information Server (IIS), Datastage, Essbase Connect error I found the explanations of the probable causes of the error not to be terribly meaningful. So, now that I have run our error to ground, I thought it might be nice to jot down a quick note of the potential cause of the ‘Client Commands are Currently Not Being Accepted’ error, which I gleaned from the process.
An error occurred while processing the request on the server. The error information is 1051544 (message on contacting or from application:[<<DateTimeStamp>>]Local////3544/Error(1013204) Client Commands are Currently Not Being Accepted.
This Error is a problem with access to the Essbase object or accessing the security within the Essbase Object. This can be a result of multiple issues, such as:
While chasing an error to which only applied to join type stages, I thought it might be nice to identify what the InfoSphere Information Server DataStage / QualityStage are. There are three of them, as you can see from the picture above, which are the:
All three stages that join data based on the values of identified key columns.
This a known error for windows systems and applies to DataStage and DataQuality jobs using the any or all the three join type stages (Join, Merge, and Lookup).
When you are controlling a chain of sequences in the job stream and taking advantage of reusable (multiple instances) jobs it is useful to be able to pass the Invocation ID from the master controlling sequence and have it passed down and assigned to the job run. This can easily be done with needing to manual enter the values in each of the sequences, by leveraging the DSJobInvocationId variable. For this to work:
This approach allows for the reuse of job and the assignment of meaningful instance extension names, which are managed for a single point of entry in the object tree.
While working with a client’s 9.1 DataStage version, I ran into a situation where they wanted to parameterize SQL where clause lists in an Oracle Connector stage, which honestly was not very straight forward to figure out. First, if the APT_OSL_PARAM_ESC_SQUOTE is not set and single quotes are used in the parameter, the job creates unquoted invalid SQL when the parameter is populated. Second, I found much of the information confusing and/or incomplete in its explanation. After some research and some trial and error, here is how I resolved the issue. I’ll endeavor to be concise, but holistic in my explanation.
This where I know this process applies, there may be other circumstances to which is this applicable, but I’m listing the ones here with which I have recent experience.
Here is a brief explanation of the steps I used to implement the where clause as a parameter. Please note that in this example, I am using a job parameter to populate on a portion of the where clause, you can certainly pass the entire where clause as a parameter, if it is not too long.
Following your project name convention or standard practice, if you customer and/or project do not have established naming conventions, create the job parameter in the job. See jp_ItemSource parameter in the image below.
On the Job parameter has been created, add the job parameter to the SQL statement of the job.
Sometimes you just need to know if your Oracle Client install is 32 bit or 64 bit. But how do you figure that out? Here are two methods you can try.
Go to the %ORACLE_HOME%\inventory\ContentsXML folder and open the comps.xml file.
Look for <DEP_LIST> on the ~second screen.
If you see this: PLAT=”NT_AMD64” then your Oracle Home is 64 bit
If you see this: PLAT=”NT_X86” then your Oracle Home is 32 bit.
It is possible to have both the 32-bit and the 64-bit Oracle Homes installed.
This method is a bit faster. Windows has a different lib directory for 32-bit and 64-bit software. If you look under the ORACLE_HOME folder if you see a “lib” AND a “lib32” folder you have a 64 bit Oracle Client. If you see just the “lib” folder you’ve got a 32 bit Oracle Client.
