DSXchange

Information Server 8.5 will be available for download this Friday (15th of October). Details on my blog: tinyurl.com/ibmis85. New versions of DataStage, QualityStage, Metadata Workbench, Information Analyzer and Business Glossary in this release.

I can finally talk about it!

Great news.

Looking forward to new features.

Regards
Sreeni

Finally.

No support for solaris I see.

As far as I know, Solaris 9 and 10 64 bit will be supported, as normal. I don't know exactly which date it will follow on but it's in the plan that I've been teaching. ; )

Nice blog, Vincent.

Yup - I have a meeting with the new product manager on Monday - plan to ask a lot of questions about it.

Who would that be?

It has arrived, the download and the online information centre all switched on and working by Friday US time. You can read about the new IBM Blueprint Director via the online info centre http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... /index.jsp

Any good news on the inbuilt vertical pivot feature?

Yes....I've tried it. It works well. There's a new "Pivot Enterprise Stage" that has a pull down for both horizontal and vertical. Vertical asks you for an "array" size (the number of columns that you want to create from "n" rows, and then it generates the column names so you can "map" them to the output link.

I'll probably still resort to old tricks and techniques at times, but it's there, and it works.

Ernie

Thanks, Nice to know eostic, I have been waiting for that for a while now.

Wow.. finally.. I am going to download it and try installing it on suSE 10

unable to download ... asking me for site number

Hi Swapnil
You have to have the site number or valid partner world id to download.