Data Elements are the place where you record the business metadata associated with a business term, such as Customer, Money, Telephone Number, and so on.
Most developers up to version 7.5 have ignored Data Elements as they do not realize the importance of business metadata.
With the availability of the Business Glossary in version 8.0 plus the common metadata repository, it will be possible to have the Data Elements in DataStage reflect accurately the business rules and other information that should have been recorded there since version 1.0.
On this basis I would like to see a tenth field added to the dynamic array returned by the DSGetLinkMetaData() function, namely the Data Element associated with each column on the link.
On a scale of 0 to 10 the degree of difficulty to implement this change would be in the vicinity of 0.15. The function need to access only an extra field in the record it's already read.
Data Element returned by DSGetLinkMetaData()
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