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Guys,

Does audit stage still exists as a product? I've looked on the IBM website and it appears to have disappeared from there offering. Has it been absorbed into one of there other products, such as quality stage?

Thanks for your replies.

Guys, I need to extract some records from a source system. I need to do this once the invoice run has completed. The way that I can identify the invoice run has completed is when a record gets written into the audit log on the database. The way that I'm considering do is to create a batch that runs ...

Guys,

I'm after your experiance with DataStage v8. A large Indian outsourcing company, responsible for the infrastructure and support for a client of ours is refusing to move to DataStage version 8 as it has too many bugs. Does this match your experiance of version 8?

Thanks

Ian

No, I'm looking for confirmation of my thoughts that as long as the right ODBC driver is in place, version 6 will be able to connect to SQL 2005. Not being able to try it myself means that I'm theorising so if someone has done it already it proves the theory.

Has anyone managed to get version 6 running on windows 2003?

No, I've not been able to try it. I need the information as part of a matrix that we are putting together for a client to justify there upgrade to v8.

They are moving to sql 2005 but have not yet got implemented.

Guys,

Is it possible to connect to SQL Server 2005 via datastage 6.0 server. I would image that I would be okay even if through ODBC.

Thanks

Ian

Okay guys, its proably contained in another post, but what advantages would they get by going enterprise, apart from scalability, more transformations, the strategic product, etc.

Cheers

Ian

Craig, Yes I realised that there would be a license/training cost to moving to the Enterprise addition. Can you thing of any more advantages of 8 over 6.5?

Thanks

Ian

Guys, I'm putting together a case for moving from 6.5 to version 8 of ds. My advatages are better support, compatability with other products, Option to use both parallel and server jobs Faster More transformations avaliable such as slowly changing dimensions Better connectiviy Enterprise packs Medat...