I am having a FLAT FILE SOURCE as first line:
1000,null,null,null
second line as:null,2000,null,null 3rd line
as :null,null,3000,null and final line as:
null,null,null,4000 ............................Now i want
the OUTPUT as 1000,2000,3000,4000 to a FLAT FILE only.For
more clarification i
want to elimate nulls and want in a single line. Please
help me out

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I am having a FLAT FILE SOURCE as first line: 1000,null,null,null second line as:null,2000,null,..

Answer / srinivas

dataflow

FF-----> Sourcequalifier...>aggregatore T/F....>target

in aggregator transformation add three new ports
o_col1,0_col2,o_col2 and make output ports
and expression in out ports
o_col1-----MAX(col1),
o_col2-----Max(col2),
o_col3-----Max(col3);
and connect these output ports to target
you will get the resul

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I am having a FLAT FILE SOURCE as first line: 1000,null,null,null second line as:null,2000,null,..

Answer / sushma

FF ---> SOURCE QUALIFIER ---> EXPRESSION ---> AGGREGATOR ---
>TARGET FILE

In Expression TRFM,
a) for each column, create an expr to replace null values
with 0.
IIF(ISNULL(port_name),0,port_name)
b) create an output port (dummy_col) and set its value to 1

In Aggregator TRFM
a) Group by the dummy_col
b) for each of the 4 columsn, find the max value

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I am having a FLAT FILE SOURCE as first line: 1000,null,null,null second line as:null,2000,null,..

Answer / suri

thats a oracle answer
but in informatica u have to use reverse pivoiting

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I am having a FLAT FILE SOURCE as first line: 1000,null,null,null second line as:null,2000,null,..

Answer / maheshkumar bvn

first convert flat file to oracle table

create table num_test(field1 int,field2 int,field3
int,field4 int);

insert into num_test values(1000,null,null,null);
insert into num_test values(null,2000,null,null);
insert into num_test values(null,null,3000,null);
insert into num_test values(null,null,null,4000);



select max(field1),max(field2),max(field3),max(field4) from
num_test;

result:
1000 2000 3000 4000

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I am having a FLAT FILE SOURCE as first line: 1000,null,null,null second line as:null,2000,null,..

Answer / jayesh

Filter in source qualifire itself..in sq query or sq filter.

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