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DataStage® Fundamentals

Enterprise Edition

DataStage is a registered trademark of

International Business Machines Corporation

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Presenter: Ray Wurlod

 DataStage® specialist
 UniVerse® specialist
 Red Brick® specialist
 worked for vendor
during development
of DataStage
 nearly 25,000 posts on DSXchange
 baseball player, coach, umpire
 musician
 model railway enthusiast

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Objectives
Having completed this class the student will be
able:
 to use DataStage tools to construct
ETL tasks
 to compile and execute those tasks

 to construct a hierarchy of control for those

tasks

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Review Questions, Lab Exercises

 All modules have one or both
 The aim is not just to "do" the exercises; it's
also to think about what you're accomplishing

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"Housekeeping"
 Timings
 Location of facilities
 Emergency procedures
 Introductions

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Contents
1. Introduction 9. Standards and
2. Setting Up Techniques
3. Creating Parallel Jobs 10. Relational Data
4. Sequential Data 11. Compilation and
Execution
5. Platform Architecture
12. Testing and
6. Combining Data
Debugging
7. Sorting & Aggregating
13. Metadata
8. Transforming Data
14. Job Control

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