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Formally known as "Mercator Inside Integrator 6.7", DataStage TX enables high-volume, complex transactions without the need for additional coding.

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New to WTX

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Well i am brand new to WTX. however i have plenty of experience with the PX ( enterprise edition) version. So want to look whats new in WTX and what all components i need to install on windows machine to evaluate the product. Will be great if some of you guys can help me out in a quick set up and get me going.
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Take a class. TX is totally different.
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Concept wise they look both the same. WTX is more complex. Go a class tomorrow...let see what they teach me :))
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Rajesh_kr82 wrote:... WTX is more complex. ... :))
Interesting observation. While an Ascential product I was going to local user group meetings (Well they were DataStage user meetings that tried to attract TX developers too.) I never learned DataStage but seeing the demos and watching what various DataStage customers were doing it appeared to be more complex but similar. Probably what you're more used to.
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Yea probably you are right. Datastage EE is basically more of a dataware housing tool, and WTX is more about real time. So you cant move zillions of rows per second by WTX. EE looks still simple because there you dont have so many designers and wat not. Only one designer and a director. ere so many parts make like a bit difficult.
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What are the diff betweenDataStage TX and EE&ServerEditi

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What are the main difference between DataStage TX and DataStage Server Edition & DataStage Enterprise Edition..
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The main difference is that they are completely different products.
Ill-advised marketing lumped them together under the same name.

DataStage server edition began life as DataStage, a UniVerse-based application, vendors VMark, Ardent, Informix, Ascential, IBM.

DataStage enterprise edition began life as Orchestrate, a parallel-execution environment, vendor Torrent Systems, acquired by Ascential.

WebSphere Transformation Extender (formerly DataStage TX) began life as Mercator, vendor Mercator (?), acquired by Ascential.
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How the DS TX looks like

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Is DataStage WTX looks like Enterprise Edition.

We do in WTX is the same as in Enterprise Edition (creation of jobs in Designer, maintains repository in Manager, Run the jobs in Director and user permission in Administrator)

What are the features in WTX tool than Server&Parallel Editions.
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QualityStage also looks like DataStage. A zebra also looks like a horse. They are not the same.
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Re: How the DS TX looks like

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WTX is entirely different than Websphere Datastage. WTX is going to use complex data transformation. Datastage is ETL.

In WTX you can develop the map in Map Designer and Deployment in Integration flow designer. There is no repository. It is not a client server based tool. It is a standalone. There are so many features in WTX. Can I know what features you are specifically looking for?
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Re: How the DS TX looks like

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rvinakota wrote:WTX is entirely different than Websphere Datastage. WTX is going to use complex data transformation. Datastage is ETL.

In WTX you can develop the map in Map Designer and Deployment in Integration flow designer. There is no repository. It is not a client server based tool. It is a standalone. There are so many features in WTX. Can I know what features you are specifically looking for?
Thanks Vinakota. Sorry for the late response.

I am not so aware in DataStage.
So, please let me know all the features available in WTX against PX / ServerJobs.

Thanks in advance
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