DataStage 6

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 8:47 pm

The Designer canvas has a blue background.
That's all I know. It's not released yet.

kww · Post by **kww** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:38 pm

I had a sales engineer give us a demo a few weeks ago. I think most of the improvements revolve around the cosmetics of the designer and the added parallel features.

There are some nice features in the job sequencer. Of course they added in the parallelism functionality to the director (not sure if it's called director anymore).

kjanes · Post by **kjanes** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:57 pm

They added a "Parallel Design" canvas to the Designer. There is now server, job sequence, mainframe, shared container, and parallel. The parallel design pallette has different objects than the server pallette because coding parallel jobs is different.

All of the normal components of DataStage still exist (manager, designer, director, admin). Overall, DataStage 6 is mostly about integrating Parallel Extender with DataStage. There are some new features but not like the upgrade from v4 to v5.

Kevin Janes

datastage · Post by **datastage** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 2:08 pm

There are a few new stages. A command stage that allows an OS or UV command to be run and can write to an output file. A Link Partitioner stage that is an active stage which takes one input and allows you to distribute partitioned rows to up to 64 output links. A Link Collector stage that is an active stage which takes up to 64 inputs and allows you to collect data from these links and route it along a single output link. An inter-process (IPC) stage that is a passive stage which provides a communication channel between DataStage processes running simultaneously in the same job. It allows you to design jobs that run on SMP systems with great performance benefits. There is also an Oracle 9i stage and an MQ Series stage.