To move datastage job from dev to production

priyaram · Post by **priyaram** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:20 pm

hi
we r moving our jobs for the first time from dev server to production.
what r the general problem that would araise??

Thanks in advance

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:51 pm

DataStage is no different from any other software development life cycle - at least not if managed correctly.

What happened to the user acceptance testing phase?

Anything that's likely to be different in the different environments should be parameterized. This includes things like DSNs, user IDs and passwords and, possibly, pathnames.

Use Director to set appropriate defaults in the production environment if you wish; my preference is not to do so, to force correct parameter values to be used when running the jobs. But sometimes it's handy.

Are you using Version Control to manage the promotion? If so, create a dummy project and practice your first promotion, to get a feel for how to drive Version Control.