Unit 1: Introduction to the Information Server (DataStage) engine
- Information Server architecture
- How the DataStage Engine is used in Information Server
- DataStage Engine features
Unit 2: Elements of a DataStage job
- Anatomy of a DataStage parallel job
- Explore the elements of an example DataStage job, including its stages and job parameters
- Understand the OSH that is generated by the job during compile
Unit 3: Engine architecture
- Partition parallelism
- Runtime architecture
- Configuration files
- The “Score”
Unit 4: Engine project configuration
- DataStage project authorizations
- Runtime Column Propagation (RCP)
- Environment variables
Unit 5: Configuring database connectivity
- Configuring ODBC data sources
- Configuring native database connections
Unit 6: Running DataStage jobs
- Running jobs from the command line
- Monitoring jobs in Director and the Operations Console
- Workload management
- Starting and stopping the Engine
Unit 7: Engine utilities
- Data set utilities
- Multiple job compile
- Resource estimation tool
Unit 8: Importing and exporting DataStage objects
- DataStage Designer exports and imports
- Command line exports and imports