Descripiton

Datastage is an ETL development tool, rich in functionality and extremely powerful. However, very few developers know about its secrets and how to exploit them to their fullest extent. In this Advanced Datastage for Developers course, you will learn how to use Datastage to its fullest potential. This will include how to improve performance, massively reduce development and processing times and improve the reliability of your applications.

This course has been tailor-made for developers by a 20 year veteran of Datastage development, certified IBM Datastage consultant and trainer and former employee of the original developer of Datastage.

Prerequisites

Must have used Datastage for at least two years and preferably attended the IBM InfoSphere DataStage Essentials (v11.5) training. Must have access to a Datastage development environment with an RDBMS environment available (preferably DB2)

Audience

Any developer who writes Datastage applications. Those who will benefit the most will be large consultancies. By implementing these advanced techniques, this will improve the maintainability and reliability of large-scale applications where many developers will be working together to build performant applications.

Topics

Topiccs to be agreed upon:

• RCP - Runtime Column Propagation
• Shared Containers
• Optimal Data Extraction and Transformation
• Aggregation and Data combining
• Data Load
  • Bulk vs Delta
  • CDC
• Use of Frameworks
• Documentation
• Code Versioning and Storage
• Shared Containers
• Moving from Server to Parallel