View Hidden File in WinSCP

Recently I have stuck with the problem where I have to download one of configuration file from server which is hidden. Usually we use WinSCP or Filezilla to do these kind of task quickly so I went for WinSCP.  But I was unable to locate the file on WinSCP as this is hidden.

Google helped me once again... This is how we can view the hidden file in WinSCP


Short Way:

• Use Alt-Clt-H key combination to view the hidden files.

Long Way:

• Go to Options --> Preferences --> Panels
• At Right Hand Side, Check the Show Hidden Files Option

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Utility to Get Last Run Log of DataStage Job

Love the new feature of IBM DataStage to fetch the last run log of any jobs with the help of "dsjob" command.
In older version of DataStage, it is very tedious to get the last run log but from/after v9.1 IBM added an additional feature in dsjob command. Lets see hows this works -

• To Fetch Last Run Log:
• To Fetch Second Last Run Log
• To Fetch Third Last Run Log
• To Fetch Nth Last Run Log

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How to Run Python Code in NotePad++

Can you run the python code from NotePad++ ?? Question seems to be little odd but we can tweak our notepad++ settings and configure it that way. Let's see how -

1. Write few line as your python code, You can use below lines-

print("Today we are going to learn how to use notepad++ to run the python code")
print("As first step, we have to write few python code line")

input("Press Enter to Exit..........")

2. Save this file, in my case, it is saved as "npp_run.py"
3. Check the python executable path in your system. In my case it is - C:\tools\Anaconda3\python.exe  (It can be different as per your python installation)

4. Now go to Run menu or Press F5. This will open a run window as below -

5. Python below code in 'the program to run' -
Python_Executable_Path $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)
C:\tools\Anaconda3\python.exe $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)

6. Save this Run configuration by clicking on Save button on same window

7. Choose Run button combination (can use Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Key) and Save.

8. You can see this combination under Run Menu.

9. Now, You can run the Python code by pressing the combination buttons (My case - F9)

Things to Remember:
1. This tweak is not replacement for Python IDE :-) such as PyCharm, Spider or many others.
2. Always put the  input("Press Enter to Exit..........")at very last line of your code else you will not able to see the python code output.

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ICONV mystery - the UV function

Iconv (Internal CONVersion) is a function supported by UniVerse DB (UV db) to convert the DATA, not only DATE, into internal format. DataStage Server Jobs are using lots of UV functions to manipulate the data.

Today, I will try to unwrap the mystery behind the Iconv function and try to put the details in simpler words. We will not go into data conversion details but date conversion which is used by DataStage :-)

Like most of other date functions (Parallel one), Iconv also accept the date(string) and its format.

Suppose, Date =   June 17, 2017

To Convert this date into internal format, we have to use -

Iconv("2017-06-17", D-YMD)  = 18066
Iconv("2017/06/17", D/YMD)   = 18066
Iconv("2017:17:06", D:YDM)  = 18066
Iconv("17-06-17", D-Y2MD)    = 18066

D-  --> D for Delimiter followed by delimiter char
Y --> year in YYYY
M --> month in MM
D --> date in DD

As we can see, if we provide the date format with date string, Iconv convert the date to an integer no and it is very important to do because now datastage can understand the given date and we can use Oconv function to re-format the date as required.

I will cover Oconv in next post, till then Keep Learning !!

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Conditionally Aborting Jobs with Transformer Stage

How to develop a job which will stop processing when FROM_DATE and TO_DATE is equal in data? Or
I want to abort the job when reject row count is more than 50?

Above scenarios can be implemented using Transformer Stage but How? Let's check this out -

• The Transformer can be used to conditionally abort a job when incoming data matches a specific rule. 
• In our case 1, it is FROM_DATE  = TO_DATE 
• In our case 2, it is some reject condition 
• Create a new output link that will handle rows that match the abort rule. 
• Within the link constraints dialog box, apply the abort rule to this output link
• Set the “Abort After Rows” count to the number of rows allowed before the job should be aborted .
• In case 1, it should be 1. as we want to abort the job when FROM_DATE is equal to TO_DATE
• In case 2, it should be 50 as we want to abort the job when reject condition have more than 50 records

But, since the Transformer will abort the entire job flow immediately, it is possible that valid rows will not have been flushed from Sequential File (export) buffers, or committed to database tables.
It is important to set the Sequential File buffer flush  or database commit parameters otherwise we have to manually remove the data which has been inserted into sequential file or database.

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