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Showing posts with label unique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unique. Show all posts
Monday, October 28, 2013
Monday, October 07, 2013
Create a unique counter in datastage
This entry describes various ways of creating a unique counter in DataStage jobs.
A parallel job has a surrogate key stage that creates unique IDs, however it is limited in that it does not support conditional code and it may be more efficient to add a counter to an existing transformer rather than add a new stage.
In a server job there are a set of key increment routines installed in the routine SDK samples that offer a more complex counter that remembers values between job executions.
The following section outlines a transformer only technique.
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