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What is new for DataStage 8 on the Information ServerVincent McBurney | Feb 2, 2007 | Comments (68)

DataStage 8 on the Information Server looks the same as previous releases but has some major changes under the hood and a few extra bells and whistles.

This post looks at what is new or changed in DataStage jobs. There are a lot of new functions for managing, running and reporting on jobs but I will talk about that in another post or you can look back at my (much) earlier DataStage Hawk preview post.

Goodbye DataStage 7

It's time to bid goodbye to tired old DataStage 7.

You did a good job, you struggled on for as long as you could, but like all DataStage versions through the annuls of history you didn't have the right metadata repository and you didn't play well with your brothers and sisters in your suite.

DataStage 8 on the other hand is much shinier and comes with a better metadata story as you get the new Metadata Server and the common connectors:

Release Date

The Windows version of the Information Server and DataStage 8 are out now. No sign yet of the version for other platforms.

DataStage Versions

DataStage 8 can only upgrade a DataStage 7 server, it cannot upgrade previous versions of servers though it can co-exist with previous versions. DataStage 8 can however import and upgrade export files from earlier versions of DataStage. I don't know how far back this support goes.

All the DataStage 7.x versions are available in version 8:

DataStage Enterprise Edition: Parallel, Server and Sequence Jobs DataStage Server Edition: Server and Sequence Jobs DataStage MVS: Mainframe Jobs DataStage Enterprise for z/OS: runs on Unix System Services

DataStage for PeopleSoft: 2 CPU limit with Server and Sequence jobs.

I don't know whether you will ever see this version of DataStage in the PeopleSoft EPM bundle, however you may be able to upgrade existing PeopleSoft implementations to this version. Drop me a message if you try.

DataStage Addons

The DataStage Enterprise Packs and Change Data Capture components are available in version 8 as shown in the version 8 architecture overview:

Enterprise PACKs

SAP BW Pack o BAPI: (Staging Business API) loads from any source to BW.o OpenHub: extract data from BW.

SAP R/3 Pack o ABAP: (Advanced Business Application Processing) auto generate ABAP,

Extraction Object Builder, SQL Builder, Load and execute ABAP from DataStage, CPI-C Data Transfer, FTP Data Transfer, ABAP syntax check, background execution of ABAP.

o IDoc: create source system, IDoc listener for extract, receive IDocs, send IDocs.o BAPI: BAPI explorer, import export Tables Parameters Activation, call and

commit BAPI. Siebel Pack

o EIM: (data integration manager) interface tableso Business Component: access business views via Siebel Java Data Beano Direct Access: use a metadata browser to select data to extracto Hierarchy: for extracts from Siebel to SAP BW.

Oracle Applications Pack o Oracle flex fields: extract using enhanced processing techniques.

o Oracle reference data structures: simplified access using the Hierarchy Access component.

o Metadata browser and importer DataStage Pack for PeopleSoft Enterprise

o Import business metadata via a metadata browser.o Extract data from PeopleSoft tables and trees.

JD Edwards Pack o Standard ODBC callso Pre-joined database tables via business views

Change Data Capture

These are add on products (at an additional fee) that attach themselves to source databases and perform change data capture. Most source system database owners I've come across don't like you playing with their production transactional database and will not let you near it with a ten foot poll, but I guess there are exceptions:

Oracle Microsoft SQL Server DB2 for z/OS IMS

There are three ways to get incremental feeds on the Information Server: the CDC products for DataStage, the Replication Server (renamed Information Integrator: Replication Edition, does DB2 replication very well) and the change data capture functions within DataStage jobs such as the parallel CDC stage.

Removed Functions

These are the functions that are not in DataStage 8, please imaging the last waltz playing in your head as you peruse this list:

dssearch command line function dsjob "-import" Version Control tool Released jobs Oracle 8i native database stages ClickPack

The loss of the Version Control tool is not a big deal as the import/export functions have been improved. Building a release file as an export in version 8 is easier than building it in the Version Control tool in version 7.

Database Connectivity

The common connection objects functionality means the very wide range of DataStage database connections are now available across Information Server products.

Latest supported databases for version 8:

DB2 8.1, 8.2 and 9.1 Oracle 9i, 10i, 10gR2 not Oracle 8 SQL Server 2005 plus stored procedures. Teradata v2r5.1, v2r6.0, v2r6.1 (DB server) / 8.1 (TTU) plus Teradata Parallel

Transport (TPT) and stored procedures and macro support, reject links for bulk loads, restart capability for parallel bulk loads.

Sybase ASE 15, Sybase IQ 11.5, 12.5, 12.7 Informix 10 (IDS) SAS 612, 8.1, 9.1 and 9.1.3 IBM WS MQ 6.1, WS MB 5.1 Netezza v3.1 ODBC 3.5 standard and level 3 compliant UniData 6 and UniVerse ? Red Brick ?

This is not the complete list. Some database versions are missing, more databases can be accessed through the ODBC stage and there may be some databases missing.

New Database Connector Functions

This is a big area of improvement.

LOB/BLOC/CLOB Data: pictures, documents etc of any size can now be moved between databases. After choosing the LOB data type you can choose to pass the data inline or as a link reference.

Reject Links: optionally append error codes and messages, conditionally filter types of rejection, fail a job based on a percentage threshold of failures.

Schema Reconciliation: where the hell has this function been all my life? Automatically compare your DataStage schema to the database schema and perform minor data type conversions.

Improved SQL Builder that supports more database types, although if you didn't like the version 7 one you wont like the 8 one either. (Kim Duke, I'm looking at you).

Test button on connectors. Test! You don't have to view data or run a job to find out if the stupid thing works.

Drag and drop your configured database connections onto jobs. Before and after SQL defined per job or per node with a failure handling option. Neater

than previous versions.

DataStage 8 gives you access to the latest versions of databases that DataStage 7 may never get. Extra functions on all connectors includes improved reject handling, LOB support and easier stage configuration.

Code Packs

These packs can be used by server and/or parallel jobs to interact with other coding languages. This lets you access programming modules or functions within a job:

Java Pack: produce or consume rows for DataStage Parallel or Server jobs. Use a java transformer.

Web Service Pack: access web services operations in a Server job transformer or Server routine.

XML Pack: read, write or transform XML files in parallel or server jobs.

The DataStage stages, custom stages, transformer functions and routines will usually be faster at transforming data than these packs however they are useful for re-using existing code.

New Stages

A new stage from the IBM software family, new stages from new partners and the convergence of QualityStage functions into Datastage. Apart from the SCD stage these all come at an additional cost.

WebSphere Federation and Classic Federation Netezza Enterprise Stage SFTP Enterprise Stage iWay Enterprise Stage Slowly Changing Dimension: for type 1 and type 2 SCDs. Six QualityStage stages

There are four questions that have been asked since the dawn of time. What is the meaning of life? What's this rash that comes and goes? If you leave me can I come too? How do a populate a slowly changing dimension using DataStage? The answers being 42, visit a clinic, piss off and use the new SCD stage.

New Functions Existing Stages

Complex Flat File Stage: Multi Format File (MFF) in addition to existing cobol file support.

Surrogate Key Generator: now maintains the key source via integrated state file or DBMS sequence.

Lookup Stage: range lookups by defining checking high and low range fields on the input or reference data table. Updatable in memory lookups.

Transformer Stage: new surrogate key functions Initialize() and GetNextKey(). Enterprise FTP Stage: now choose between ftp and sftp transfer.

You can achieve most of these functions in the current version with extra coding except for in-memory lookups. This is a killer function in DataStage 8.

Platforms

These are the platforms for the released Windows version and the yet to be released Linux/Unix version along with the C++ compiler that you only need for parallel jobs that will use transformers. You do not need this compiler for Server Edition.

-Windows 2003 SP1•Visual Studio .NET 2003 C++, Visual Studio .NET 2005 C++ or Visual Studio .NET 2005 Express Edition C++-AIX 5.2 & 5.3•XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition 7.0, 8.0 compiler-HP-UX 11i v1 & v2•aC++ A.03.63 compiler-Red Hat ASE 4.0•gcc3.23 compiler-SuSEES, 9.0•gcc3.3.3 compiler-Solaris 2.9 & 2.10•Sun Studio 9, 10 , 11 compiler

Database Repository

Note the database compatibility for the Metadata Server repository is the latest versions of the three DBMS engines. DB2 is an optional extra in the bundle if you don't want to use an existing database.

IBM UDB DB2 ESE 9-IBM Information Server does not support the Database Partitioning Feature (DPF) for use in the repository layer-DB2 Restricted Enterprise Edition 9 is included with IBM Information Server and is an optional part of the installation however its use is restricted to hosting the IBM Information Server repository layer and cannot be used for other applications

Oracle 10g SQL Server 2005

If you are a cheapskate and you really don't like DB2, in fact you would cross the street if you saw it coming in the other direction, you might be able to load the repository into a free (express) version of SQL Server or Oracle, however you might hit a problem with the DBMS license CPU restriction. If you get this working drop me a comment.

Languages

Foreign language support for the graphical tools and product messages:

Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

Commiserations to the Welsh. For the Trekkies out there keep the writin campaign going, it is only a matter of time before they add Klingon. It is on the product path right after High Elf.

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.

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68 Comments

Feb 2, 2007 Good info. Thanks a lot. Feb 2, 2007 I cant wait for the V8 to be out. I love the enhacements in the "New Database Connector Functions". Thanks for the great info Vincent ;) Feb 3, 2007 It is good Info .I like to know whether customers can have choice in datastage 8 to do customize purchase( i mean instead of customer going for all the components in Datastage 8,is it possible to purchase components according to his requirement)?

 Zinna | Feb 5, 2007 sounds exciting. What's the timeframe for the solaris platform of datastage 8? I am reviewing our server jobs and could really use some the new functions in existing stages! Feb 6, 2007 Thanks Vincent for sharing good information!

Kavita Dalvi | Feb 6, 2007 Would only like to know whether the "killer" transformer stage in parallel edition is

improvised with respect to performance? Feb 6, 2007 Thanks for sharing the goos info.

 Vincent McBurney | Feb 6, 2007 Aneel, you can pick and choose packs (such as Siebel, CDC and PeopleSoft) but you cannot pick and choose your parallel stages. Zinna the Linux/Unix version was supposed to be out in November and I still haven't seen it. Perhaps some holdups in beta testing as the Windows version was being used for many months in beta before the release date. There are almost no new functions in server jobs but you do benefit from the new metadata functions. Kavita, a good question. I had already blogged about how the transformer is a good option and performance problems are overstated. In DataStage 8 for performance the job startup time is faster, buffering is beter and more combinable stages. The transformer may be able to combine with more stages in the new release (it current can combine with the lookup stage). Feb 9, 2007 Realy a good information on DataStage 8. Helps me a lot Thank you very much Burney

 sasidhar_kari | Mar 30, 2007 Gr8 Work Vincent,

Thanks for the Info

 us1aslam1us | Apr 2, 2007 Excellent Blog Vincent.

ThanksSam

Rajender Reddy Marikanti | Apr 9, 2007 Hi Vincent,

Good work Keep it up.

Raj Marikanti May 23, 2007 Great info on DS8. Thanks for all the effort.

Srinivas Jun 1, 2007 Hey Vincent, Info is great from development prospective, but how about scurity features from administrators prospective I mean creating DS users & groups, do we have to do at OS level or we can we create from DS8.

ThanksSrimitta

Minhaj uddin | Jun 3, 2007 Another beautiful blog by our blog man!Great information Vincent.

Jun 15, 2007 Vincent, Such an Excellent Blog .Keep going

Hari

 gillisj1 | Jul 24, 2007 Will the job still lock if you loose your connection to the repository

 Vincent McBurney | Jul 24, 2007 A job is locked when it is opened for editing, they have made it easier to manage these locks: you can open a locked job in read only mode, you can see who has a lock on the job and someone with the right privileges can release that lock through the client tools.

Rama Krishna | Aug 8, 2007 nice info .. I want to know whether we can import the idoc structure using datastage or do we need to type all the columns . Bob Averack | Sep 26, 2007 Hi Vincent,

You spoke of a common connection object for SAS v9 and v9.1.3. Is this a rebranding of the earlier DS Pack for SAS (that, I believe, reads and writes SAS Data Sets), or does this perform a different function?

Thanks,Bob

 Vincent McBurney | Sep 26, 2007 It's the same DataStage SAS plugin component as before with support for SAS 9 added.

Oct 4, 2007 Hi everybody,

Can anybody tell me what the different between Datastage 8.0.1 for windows and Infomation Server 8.0.1 for windows ? Do I need to install both softwares to do the ETL works ? Or I just need to install one of them ?.

Thanks Golden Orbit | Oct 4, 2007 Hi Dung,

Either one should be enough. Do you have license for both?

DataStage has more out-of-box transformations than PowerCenter.

Regards...

 Vincent McBurney | Oct 5, 2007 Information Server is a suite - at a bare minimum it has the Metadata Server and one product using it. So DataStage 8.0.1 or QualityStage 8.0.1 are both products that need the Metadata Server to run so they are both considered part of the Information Server suite. Nov 2, 2007

kindly send me the quotation for the data stage tools and informatica tolls

padmakar

 Vincent McBurney | Nov 2, 2007 There are list prices for DataStage that put a 4 CPU parallel configuration at about US$240K and an Information Server Blade at US$350K (comes with hardware, operating system, metadata server and DataStage on 4 dual core CPUs). But those prices would be likely to come down during evaluation and negotiation.

Don't know the prices for Informatica. If both vendors were evaluated I'm sure the prices would end up lower and similar. They have different pricing for addons so you really need to get a quote from each vendor with a specific configuration request.

 Wes Dumey | Nov 5, 2007 I priced out Informatica PowerCenter 7 for a client in 2005, and it was something like $100k for the base toolset, plus a yearly maintenance fee, plus additional fees for more processors, capabilities, etc. In the end, it was quite comparable to DataStage in cost. Nov 16, 2007 Of course, any self respecting welsh person would hand craft their ETL code, or else use OWB. Jan 14, 2008 Hi Vincent,This information is very useful and helpful for me.Thanks for your effort and Regard Feb 4, 2008 Hi Vicent, Thanks for this information, but I have a problem with DataStage 8 and Pak for SAP R/3 6....When I try to use an ABAP stage I get the error "Invalid User or Password", but I'm trying to login with the same user and password that I use in my GUI interface for SAP

Windows 2003 Server SP2DataStage 8Pak for SAP R/3 6

I really don't know how to fix it...000150 | CAA2413D 69BF0514 04020043 4E6F6D62 |..A=i......CNomb|000160 | 7265206F 20636C61 76652064 65206163 |re o clave de ac|000170 | 6365736F 20696E63 6F727265 63746F73 |ceso incorrectos|000180 | 20287265 70697461 206C6120 656E7472 | (repita la entr|000190 | 61646120 616C2073 69737465 6D612904 |ada al sistema).|0001a0 | 02FFFF00 00FFFF00 00000000 00000000 |................|>> RfcReceive [1] ...Received RFCHEADER [1]: 01/LIT/IEEE/SPACE/1100Received UNICODE-RFCHEADER [1]: cp:1100/ce:IGNORE/te:IGNORE/cs:1/rc:0x00000023UUID: ab_rfccheck_uuid compare uuid's {4C6B9137-1CFE-4765-8514-CAA2413D69BF}======> Nombre o clave de acceso incorrectos (repita la entrada al sistema)>>>> [1] : EXT L 172.27.12.140 >>> CLOSE abrfcrcv.c 405 (48111827) -{4C6B9137-1CFE-4765-8514-CAA2413D69BF}

*> RfcReceivehandle = 1parameter = tables = Data conversion On

>>>RfcLastErrorEx>>>> [1] : EXT L XXX.XX.XX.XXX >>> FREE abrfcio.c 3382 (48111827) -{4C6B9137-1CFE-4765-8514-CAA2413D69BF}

regards.

 Paddu | Feb 6, 2008 Wonderful Information :-)

 mar | Mar 14, 2008 hi!

I'm using Datastage 8 on windows server 2003, but I not found the LOB data type.

SQL Type show LongVarChar and NLongVarChar only.

Rajesh Bonepalli | Mar 18, 2008 I am using Datastage. I want connectivity through java.can any body tell how to do? Rajesh Bonepalli | Mar 18, 2008 Hi,We are using DataStage.But we are not getting how to connect to datastage from java can u tell me?

 Vincent McBurney | Mar 18, 2008 You can submit your questions to the Ascential group at groups.ittoolbox.com or at www.dsxchange.com. You can run DataStage jobs from Java by calling the dsjob command to run jobs - details in the DataStage Server Job Developers Guide.

 soumita | Apr 28, 2008 It is really wonderful information we received from this blogg!

Apr 28, 2008 Hello,

How to use Datastage to convert Japanese character Katakana from (Single byte to Double Byte). Input as the Sigle Byte character while output will be Double byte character.

regards,SP

 rajuyarra | Jun 4, 2008 exllent...Can anybody provide me what configuration required in SAP R3 system to connect datastage

and The IDOC extract stage.

Thanks in advance

 rajuyarra | Jun 4, 2008 what configuration required in SAP R3 system to connect Datastage to the IDOC Load Stage

Jul 7, 2008 Hello I would like to know where can i get traing on Data Stage 8.Please provide me info

Thanks

 Vincent McBurney | Jul 8, 2008 You can get training from a scheduled IBM DataStage Essentials training course. Go to the www.ibm.com website, switch to your home country page using the country selector in the top right, find "Training" under the support tab in the box near the bottom. That should lead you to the training section. Do a Training search for "DataStage". Sep 2, 2008 Hi Vincent, like always ... "Job well done". Am looking at teaching datastage to a handful of people. Any idea if there is an education license available?

 Vincent McBurney | Sep 2, 2008 That is a tricky one. Unlike open source vendors or smaller ETL vendors IBM do not make a trial or education version available for download. You will need to contact your local IBM office to try and get a copy. Partners of IBM who purchase a PartnerWorld Value Pack are entitled to use IBM software for education purposes but even after joining the PartnerWorld download section is incredibly convoluted and the Information Server software is difficult to find. You are better off trying to get it straight from IBM. Sep 4, 2008 Hi Vincent, great blog. Has anyone managed to get the SCD stage working properly with type 1 changes? If the SCD stage includes both type 1 and type 2 columns, it misses key values or just ignores type 1 changes. We have DataStage 8.0.1.

Regards Saugat Dey | Sep 4, 2008 Vincent Thanks for the info. I can not see DataStage Admin in DS8.0 ?

what is the replacement for it?

 Vincent McBurney | Sep 5, 2008 For some reason the DataStage Administrator gets installed but not added to the start menu. You should find the Administrator icon on your desktop and you will find it in the Program Files - Information Server directory but you will have to add it to your Start menu manually.

There are some security functions in the Information Server browser Console and some DataStage Administration functions only available through the Administrator client tool.

 Sudipta Chatterjee | Sep 5, 2008 Can anybody please tell me how to use the Java Client stage available in DataStage v8. I tried to use it but the job is aborting. I can compile and run the same java program from unix prompt successfully. But cannot call it from DS. The java program is a simple program which has no input but will print "Java Rules".The program is given below: --------- class Motto { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Java rules!"); } } --------- I am using the Java Client stage as a source in the DS job. Not very sure of what I should specify in the Transformer Class Name, User's Class Path, and other tabs available. Someone who has used the Java Client Stage do let me know what should be specified in the required tabs.

Sep 11, 2008 Hi Vincet,

DataStage 8.0.1 looks for DB2 version 9.1, but I need to install DataStage with DB2 Enterprise Edition version 9.5. Is this feasible ? If so could you please give some guidance for the same. Any help will be appreciated.

Trisha.

 glennstage | Sep 11, 2008 Hi,

We are looking at installing 8.1 when it comes out, we are told end of the summer by IBM, and we are struggling with the best way to lay the the seperate layers out on Windows 2003 servers. If anyone has any horror or success stories regarding this when they installed Information Server 8.0.1 that would be helpful. What I'm looking at so far is one server with the meta data layer and websphere layer installed on it running two dual core processors. A second server I'd install the engine layer with two quad core processors. Any thoughts? Is this a way to go? Am I maximizing efficiency here?

Thanks, Glenn

 Vincent McBurney | Sep 11, 2008 @Tricia, try a 9.1 client library on the DataStage server connecting to a 9.5 database server. Otherwise try to get the 9.5 client connecting but make sure in your dsenv LIBPATH variable you point to the 32bit library and not the default 64bit library or it wont work.

@Glenn, what you propose sounds exactly like an Information Server Blade - see my post The

IBM Information Server is Software is Hardware is People!. It puts all the metadata on the first blade, the DataStage head node on the second blade and a DataStage compute server on the third blade. The metadata blade as a single dual core CPU and the DataStage blades have twin dual core CPUs.

So on Windows it's a good architecture to separate DataStage from the Metadata Server. On Unix/Linux where you have a massively scalable MPP it might be better to put everything on the one server - the machine will handle the Metadata services without raising a sweat.

For more details on your layer architecture options have a look at the IBM Information Server Information Center. They have a good section on it.

 glennstage | Sep 12, 2008 Thanks Vincent but I think that's where we are getting confused with regards to the layers and nodes. You mentioned metadata on one blade which I'm good with then you say the DataStage head node ona second and the compute server on a third. That's where I'm lost. Is the websphere layer considered the "head node" and the Engine layer considered the "compute server"? Basically I was thinking(2 blades) Websphere and Meta data on one blade and the Engine on the second blade. Then one of our network guys suggested for fail over we split the engine into two seperate blades in case one blade was down the other would still be up. That's where it got more confusing as we asked support about that and they didn't really give us a definite good or bad idea response but rather started expalining the Conductor node talks to the section leaders which spawn off players that actually do the work. From what you said when you said, "head node" are you refering to the Conductor Node?

Thanks Glenn

 hari reddy | Nov 14, 2008 Hi Vincet,

DataStage 8.0.1 looks for DB2 version 9.1, but I need to install DataStage with DB2 Enterprise Edition version 9.5. Is this feasible ? If so could you please give some guidance for the same. ; but i have some problems .ith my client

Dec 10, 2008 Hi Vincent

Could you please tell me whether Datstage 8.0.1 is compatible with db2 version 9.5. Appreciate your quick response.

regards

Dec 11, 2008 Hi Vincent,

I am in the process of installing datastage 8.0.1 with db2 v9.5 and encountering problems in creating the metadata repository.I have tried without the option of the repository also,but all have gone in vein.Could you please guide me or tell me what i am doing wrong?

Waiting for your quick response.

Thanx in advance.,

Sambit

 Piya Verma | Dec 13, 2008 Hi Vincent,

How can we move datastage jobs from development environment to testing environment with a Datastage job using unix commands?

 nilu | Jun 3, 2009 Hi Vincent,

This was really very good and informative blog. Could you please also let me know whether it is possible to call native mainframe routine from the Datastage parallel environment? Appreciate your early response on this.

Thanks and Regards, Nilu

 Ritu Sethi | Jun 23, 2009 Hi Vincent,

How can we configure a two server datastage environment (using DS 8.1 on AIX 6.1) for failover/disaster recovery. The purpose is that the secondary server should take over when the primary server fails or goes down .What steps are needed to setup this configuration? Do we need to do this while installing DataStage or do configurations after installation ?

Would appreciate any help / suggestions you could provide .

Thanks

Ritu

 Vincent McBurney | Jun 23, 2009 You just need to make sure both environments have the same settings - DataStage parameters, the dsenv file, the same operating system scripts, DataStage components etc. You install them both using the same steps, or install one and copy the image into the other. IBM have some specific licensing requirements when it comes to production backups that you should check.

If you have separate dev, test and prod licenses you could consider making test your production backup and keep a production copy project on it at all times. This could be better than having a

production backup system that doesn't get used 99% of the time.

 Ritu Sethi | Jun 24, 2009 Thanks for the response Vincent . So this would mean that both servers have to always be up and running and we need to install the same code (application code or any other OS or middleware patches etc ) on both . So when we run jobs in production what would happen if the primary server fails assuming we were doing heavy duty loads or aggregating Terabytes of data . How does it work in terms of critical jobs running in production ? Will the stanby server take over the job in process or we will need to redo the jobs anyway ?

Thanks

Thanks

 Vincent McBurney | Jun 25, 2009 I think you would need some type of production monitoring software, such as Tivoli, to detect that a server is down and switch on the other server. The scheduling tool should be able to restart DataStage jobs from where it left off as long as you are controlling your jobs from an external tool or table rather than DataStage Sequence jobs. A DataStage Sequence can restart automatically if it fails but not if the server it is on is not working.

 Ritu Sethi | Jul 2, 2009 Thanks again for the information . In a nutshell if the active server fails we will need to manually restart the jobs on the passive server once the passive server comes online . Jul 15, 2009 Just to continue from the point raised by ritu....

how does this apply to datastage metadata repository database? in our environment we have chosen oracle as database for housing DS repository, when we failover the repository to DR site is there any property or xml that we need to update the new identity?

Please clarify.

 Ritu Sethi | Jul 23, 2009 Good Question Madan,

Is the metadata repository on the same server as DataStage ? If it is on a different server then the standby server would be pointing to it also . Question is if the metadata repository is keeping the datastage server information then there needs to be a way to update that on the database server. Vincent may be able to help with clarifying this . Hello Vincent ,

Had a question for you . What are the different options in 8.1 (on AIX ) to automate importing DataStage jobs ? I understand that we can use dsjob import options and can issue this from a shell script or perl script . Is this a recommended option ?

Thanks

Ritu Sethi

Sep 23, 2009 Hi All,

I want to know about SAS Datastage Plugins.What is the purpose and how we are using SAS Datastage plugins.Is sas reports suported by SAS Datastage plugins.

 Vincent McBurney | Sep 23, 2009 The SAS plugin is quite simple - it can read or write SAS datasets natively. So you can populate a SAS dataset from a DataStage job or read a SAS dataset without knowing much about SAS. I'm not sure about SAS reports, DataStage is a data integration tool so it's just trying to move data around. I think it can execute SAS routines from DataStage that could kick off a report. Sep 24, 2009 Thanks, Vincent McBurney

Is there any documentation available for SAS Datastage Plugins.Could you please provide if you have any documentation.

 USER_2029320 | May 24 Hi, This is Bhargavi .Iam planning to join in a Data Stage Training pogram .Could u ppl please help me out with new version(8.1) course content

 Madhusudhan y | 9 days ago hi all,am new to Datastage and am getting lot of struggle to install datastage 8 in my laptop.so would you people can help me out, whats d sytem requirements needed and can any one can help me to install. at present am staying in bangalore.

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