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Hi there,

I'd like to check with you guys if it's worth taking a course on QS V8 when my company has V7.5. Are they complete different products? or V8 is pretty similar to V7.5?

Any help will be very appreciated.

Thanks
Melquior

QS 8.0.1 is so different from QS 7.5. First thing is that you must know how to code the parallel job. I even heard some of IBM technical support are having difficult time to figure out parallel job's problems or to use certain parallel stages since they haven't dealt with parallel jobs at all before the version 8.0.

Take the 7.5 class. There are a whole heap of stages that you need in 7.5 that simply do not exist in 8.0 (because of the closer interaction with DataStage), and there is as yet no certification for version 8.0.

IBM has a QualityStage 7.5 class (DX731AU) scheduled in Canberra 03-07 December - contact IBM Learning Services to inquire about attending. They will also be able to advise whether they are scheduling any 7.5 classes in 2008 (I believe they are, but they'll know for sure).

I assumed that you alreday knew QS 7.5. But wanted to know whether is it worth to take QS 8.0 class.

If you have done much work with DS 7.5, then you could probably get by without the QS V8 course as far as everyday usage goes. V8 is now more like DS but with a few new kinds of operation that let you do the stan, match, parse, etc.

That's of course if you know QS 7.5 and want to move to 8.

If you know neither and have to use QS 7.5, do the 7.5 course. The stan, match bits are fairly similar to QS 8, but the hoops to jump through to get the data in and out of it are very different.

The best improvement of QS version 8.0.1 is that finally CASS job can be run in "real" parallel mode.