What is output index? How does it work in reformat?Does below function show Output index in useoutput:1:if(in.emp.sal

ahamed

• May 24th, 2016

If you want to send one input record to only one output port we can use the output index

geekrohit

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• Jul 14th, 2009

Output index function is used in reformat having multiple output ports to direct which record goes to which out port. for eg. for a reformat with 3 out ports such a function could be likeif (value==&#...

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I have a scenario like, I am getting a date field from input in MMDDYY format and I have to check for same year as processing year then I should pass "", else if the input date is to previous year to processing date and less than 0301 then I should pass Y.
How to check and process the date?

ahamed

• May 12th, 2016

Inputfile-->reformat-->outputfile
if((string_substring(in.indate),5,2)==string_substring(now(),5,2))""
else "Y";

mohankrishna

• Apr 8th, 2016

Use date function to get the current date and apply date_year function to get the processing year out of it. Do the same for input date to get the input year. If these two are equal set " " to output....

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How can i sort the data using reformat component in Abinitio?

And Tut

• Apr 13th, 2016

You can first create a vector using the rollup component and then use the vector_sort function in the reformat and then expand the vector using normalize. I hope this helps

gouse

• Jul 12th, 2015

Using next_in_sequence inreformat transform function

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How does the Index value come from in Normalize and when the vector element is not fixed length how does the length of() function in Normalize work

mohankrishna

• Apr 8th, 2016

Use the length_of(in.vector) in length function of normalize component.

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How will you test the abinitio graphs?

Keerthi

• Mar 21st, 2016

Hi Juber Shaikh can you please explain in detail how can we use it

juber shaikh

• Sep 12th, 2013

You can use An Test Runner utility of Abinitio for testing purpose.

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How to Join Data from Two Partitions of a Multifile in Abinitio..!

Hi,
I have a multifile having 8 partitions.
I want to join partition 1 and partition4 data.
Could someone explain the approach for the above requirement?

Thanks in advance,
Srikanth

Devendra Majhi

• Mar 19th, 2016

Use PBE to get partition 1 and 4 in seperate flows using this_partition=1 nd 4. Then use join

irfan

• Jan 13th, 2016

I guess, you should use this flow i/p -> FBE(this_partition() ==4 -> JOIN

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How can I achieve cummulative sumary in AB Initio other than using SCAN component. Is there any inbuilt function available for that?

mk_44

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• Feb 9th, 2016

I guess below code can help for 3rd max else 1st max for each group key. Input_file --> sort (descending) --> Rollup --> output type temporary_type=record decimal("") rank ; decimal("") sal ...

disha

• Jan 22nd, 2016

@Dinesh: but it is not taking care of the requirement, i.e. if there is no 3rd record, it should display the first highest sal. In the solution you mentioned it will display the second highest sal.

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How to generate sequence number in a multifile using next_in_sequence().

Sachin

• Feb 3rd, 2016

Next_in_sequence()*(this_partition()+1)

srinivasareddy

• Jul 21st, 2015

hi I think this will be help you if the mfs is 4-way if (this_partition() == 0)((next_in_sequence()-1))+this_partition()+1 else if (this_partition() == 1) ((next_in_sequence()-1))+this_partition(...

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I have a serial graph with below sequence:
i/p -> sort(key1)->rollup(key1)->sort(key2)->rollup(key2)->normalise->o/p.

How do we improvise this graph?

gouse

• Nov 20th, 2015

By reducing number of sort components

raja

• Feb 10th, 2015

It depends on your input data.If you specify some of your input data will be more helpful. My suggestion is instead of using two roll up and two sort keys try to use it only one rollup with key1 and key2

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If you have one input file it have some thousands of records then how to Seperating the header and trailor records from the input file?

gouse

• Nov 1st, 2015

Record identifier with reformat or deduo sort or filter by expression.

Sagar Sali

• May 14th, 2015

1) If the header and trailor is denoted by some special separator like H or T, you can use filter by expression and condition like (rec_type != "H" and rec_type != T")

2) You can use 2 dedup component and in first comp, keep first and next use comp, keep last, so u can separate.

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Himanshu Poddar

• Sep 23rd, 2015

What is the Ab Initio certification name for beginner?

ashutosh ojha

• Jan 9th, 2007

No it is not true they indeed offer certification and the cost is 1200$ .

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Nikhil

• Aug 19th, 2015

How can we integrate Ab Initio with Jenkins. Have you done anything like that or read about it. I want to integrate them.

robbyuk

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• Mar 27th, 2013

Hi All,

I appreciate I am a late entry for this question. I think tools like Jenkins can be used for Ab Initio automation test harness. Please correct if I am wrong.

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sathish18

• Aug 8th, 2015

When we invoke the script for the first time, the jobname is determined from graph or pset or plan name and the mp job command is invoked to create jobname.job file. So basically the job files is the ...

Shubh

• Feb 5th, 2015

.job file is a catalog file which is created as the same name of graph with extension of .job and it calls launcher which initiates process

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Could you please explain me in details differences between Multi File s and Adhoc Files ?

Thanks in Advance.

gouse chpet

• Jul 15th, 2015

Collection of individual files is known as multifiles.
m_mkfs < control partition >< data partition >......

Collection of individual files having same dml is known as adhoc multi files.

anuvardhan

• May 18th, 2015

Collection of files is known as multifile.
collection of files having same dml function is known Adoc multifile

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I have 10 million records in one file, if I develop a graph with this file, it takes more time to be executed, but I want to decrease the execution time. How can you proceed?

Jerry

• Jun 26th, 2015

You may use the following performance improvement techniques depending on the situation: 1. You may convert the serial file to multifile system using a partition by key, if it is a serial file. 2. Y...

Rajesh Matcha

• Jun 10th, 2015

You have not mentioned that whether your graph is a serial graph or a parallel graph , If it is serial make it parallel as soon as possible , if you are doing some specific business rules ..filter th...

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a) Using a rollup,how many records will you get?
b) How can I get more than 100 records?
c) How can I get 1 record?

Bibhu Prasad Behera

• May 30th, 2015

A. Using Rollup ,you can get 100 or less than 100 records.(depending upon the key )
b.Use normalize to get more than 100 records.
c.Use Rollup with null key.

tanay

• May 24th, 2015

Using roll up on null key can give you one record.

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Suhail

• May 27th, 2015

${} substitution is similar to $ substitution except that the parameter must be preceded by curly brackets. If we talk about these in parameter definitions then - 1. If the interpretation is $ subst...

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How to find the schema either Star or Snowflake Schema in our project?

kishore

• May 4th, 2015

Based on joins between fact table and dimension tables

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With open a graph how should we know how many input files are using in that graph?

Rahul

• Apr 7th, 2015

Hi Puneet its asking for object relative path...Could you please elaborate a little bit.

puneetdking

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• Sep 30th, 2011

there is one air command that can help you - air project get-required-file == This command finds and displays the files in a project that the specified object(s) depends on. This command is branch-sp...

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Munmun

• Mar 31st, 2015

Air sandbox have many options. Each are having different use.

Such as air sandbox run will run graph pset plan

air sandbox show-common will show the included common sandboxes.

shan88

• Dec 21st, 2012

Air sandbox commands are used to run a graph,pset from the Unix

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