Learning DataStage
I have never stopped learning new things about DataStage. This Lens is for people like me who want to keep improving their knowledge and skills with this product.
Getting Stage Property and Options Help
You can get immediate help on almost any stage property of option via the DataStage Designer help files.
Inside a stage properties form click on help or press F1. Find the bitmap of the stage and click on the Properties tab on the bitmap to go to the properties help page. There you should find short help on almost every property and option of that stage.
Inside a stage properties form click on help or press F1. Find the bitmap of the stage and click on the Properties tab on the bitmap to go to the properties help page. There you should find short help on almost every property and option of that stage.
Places to learn more about DataStage
Ray Wurlod - DataStage Services
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IBM Training courses for DataStage
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IBM Information Integration - Library
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Datastage FAQ and best practices
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Learning how to use Stages
Tips and help on specific DataStage stages.
- DataStage Developer Shortcuts
- Handy buttons, thinks you might have missed, Sequence job shortcuts.
- Parallel Job lookup types
- Big lookups and small lookups in parallel jobs.
- Parallel job transformer performance tips
- Some call it slow, some call it evil, should the parallel transformer be used?
- How to do sorting in Parallel jobs
- Sorting and partitioning is the single most important part of high volume parallel processing.
- 17 Mistakes that ETL Designers make with Very Large Data
- These are the mistakes that ETL designers can make when processing scary high data volumes.
- DataStage and QualityStage 8 Product News from IOD 2007
- The product roadmap news for DataStage and QualityStage version 8.1 due Q1 of 2008.
Use Annotations!
Annotations are a great way to document your ETL job within the job and help future developers understand what you did.
In this example the green annotation is a "Description Annotation" that shows the contents of the job description field. There can be just one of these for each job.
In this example the green annotation is a "Description Annotation" that shows the contents of the job description field. There can be just one of these for each job.
